About The Role
The Studio Manager is the beating heart of Daylight, the person who keeps the rhythm steady across our people, projects, and processes. In this hands-on role, you’ll work closely with department leads across creative, production, and account management to ensure our projects run smoothly, our teams are supported, and our resourcing stays one step ahead.
But it’s more than just logistics. You’ll also help shape the energy of the studio, keeping the office humming, nurturing a vibrant culture, and making Daylight a place people genuinely love coming to work every day.
This role is for someone who leads with empathy, thrives on variety, and communicates with clarity and confidence. You’ll need exceptional EQ, a collaborative spirit, and the ability to juggle competing priorities without dropping a beat.
What the role looks like:
- Planning and coordinating resourcing across design, creative and digital teams, ensuring every project has the right people at the right time
- Leading daily resourcing WIPs with clear, up-to-date snapshots of what’s happening across the studio
- Managing bookings, timelines and project shifts with calm efficiency, keeping everything and everyone moving
- Supporting Senior Leadership team with their administration and scheduling
- Supporting production, from booking voiceovers, audio briefs, to sorting image licensing and subscriptions
- Keeping production tools up to date, managing resource updates across Float and Slack Canvases
- Managing freelance resource requirements, identifying pressure points early and coordinating freelance or contractor support where needed
- Helping to drive internal operations, including onboarding, offboarding, set-up of team training sessions and culture-building activities
- Keeping things humming, helping alongside the finance manager and general manager with office logistics and event planning
- Awards coordination, alongside the communications manager, supporting award entries and administration
Who are we looking for?
You’re a natural organiser with a calm head and can-do energy. You thrive in fast-paced, creative environments and love being at the centre of the action, anticipating needs, connecting dots and keeping everything on track. You understand the rhythm of the creative and digital team, bringing a steady presence that others can rely on.
We're looking for someone who has:
- Proven experience in studio or production coordination, ideally within a creative, digital or agency setting
- A sharp eye for resourcing and scheduling, with the ability to see around corners and solve problems before they escalate
- Excellent communication skills, clear, warm and confident across working with all levels of the team
- Strong attention to detail, with the ability to keep systems and tools running like clockwork (i.e. Float, Slack)
- A hands-on approach, ready to jump into production and admin support to keep the momentum going
- A collaborative mindset, you love helping others do their best work, bringing a positive energy to every interaction
Why our team loves working at Daylight
- We work on challenges that make a real-world difference
- We balance work and life through flexible policies and a culture that values wellbeing
- Our culture is high-trust and collaborative, where ideas are welcomed and explored
- We invest in your learning and development, enabling you to develop your craft and career
- We’ve got a well-stocked snacks and drinks cupboard
- Our HQ in The Chambers, in Morningside,is dog-friendly and close to public transport
- Enjoy team lunches, coffee catch-ups, and Friday beer
Approach To Flexible Working
For this role, we are looking for an Auckland-based candidate. As with all hands-on creative roles, we believe the best work comes from being closely connected with our team in person. We ask our team to be in the office on Mondays and Fridays, with flexible WFH options mid-week.
Our values
As a business, Daylight acknowledges Te Tiriti o Waitangi and recognises that Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei are mana whenua of the land where the Daylight office is based in Tāmaki Makaurau.
We believe in the power of diverse perspectives and inclusive storytelling. If you feel like you’d be a great fit for this role but don’t meet every single requirement, reach out. We’d love to hear from you.
Details
Location: Auckland, NZ
Job type: Full-time
Reporting to: General Manager
Hours: 30 - 40 hours per week
Start Date: Immediate
Apply with your CV by July 21 to jobs@daylightgroup.nz
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