Museum Interactive Media Project Manager

About the Obama Foundation

At the Obama Foundation, we are guided by a core belief: that ordinary people working together can change history. Our mission is to inspire those people to take action, empower them to change their world for the better, and connect them so they can achieve more together than they can alone.

We were founded by community organizers, so when we seek change, we do it by bringing people together. 

That approach begins at home, on the South Side of Chicago, where we are building the Obama Presidential Center. The Center represents a historic opportunity for Chicago: a chance to build a world-class museum and public gathering space that celebrates our nation’s first African American President and First Lady, steps away from where he began his career, where she was raised, and where—together—they made their home. 

But that approach extends to all our work, whether it’s holding leadership training sessions in communities throughout the U.S., bringing local leaders together in countries around the world, working to support the global education of girls, or ensuring young men of color have pathways to opportunity.

As President Obama has said, “we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together.” So join us. 

For more information, please visit www.obama.org.

Purpose of the Role

As a member of the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) Museum team, the Museum Interactive Media Project Manager will support the Director of Integrated Media over the entire production process for exhibition media. You will work to ensure that exhibition media is produced efficiently, inclusively, at a high level of quality, on-time, and on-budget toward the OPC’s planned opening day. This will be a term position continuing through the museum’s opening in 2026.

You will coordinate the work between external interactive media producers and the Foundation team, serving as a day to day project manager, maintaining and managing schedules and budgets, shepherding content development processes, documenting and tracking decisions, and coordinating reviews, prototyping, and user testing efforts. Additionally, you’ll serve as the primary internal coordinator for accessibility and inclusive design within the media production process, in partnership with other Foundation team members and the Foundation’s inclusive design consultants.

Core Job Responsibilities

Interactive Media Project Management

• General project coordination, including scheduling reviews, regular check-ins, and asynchronous updates with external media producers; documenting meetings and workshops; following up on tasks, open questions, and action items
• Lead interactive media-specific meetings and workshops; create agendas; track and document decisions, action items, and open questions; and facilitate cross-functional communication
• Monitor and revise all media production schedules, tasks, and statuses using the Foundation’s tracking tools (Asana, Google Sheets)
• Track and consolidate comments and feedback from Foundation team, partners, and stakeholders to external interactive media producer
• Coordination of exhibition media requirements and input with exhibition design and fabrication process, including working with internal Foundation staff (exhibition and operation teams) and external partners (exhibition designer, AV integrator, fabricator)
• Support on-site media installation, quality assurance, and punch-list processes

Communications and Presentations 

• Manage, facilitate and contribute to internal memoranda, presentations and briefings on media production-related topics
• Presentation and briefings to Foundation leadership and Principals
• Contribute to external-facing presentations and briefings related to media production updates, including coordination with external advisors and advisory groups

Interactive Media Production Coordination

• Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design needs, including coordinating with relevant consultants on prototyping, user testing, and ensuring continuity of approaches, techniques and systems, between linear and interactive media.
• Serve as internal point of contact for interactive media prototyping activities, including scheduling, planning, and communication
• Perform other duties as assigned

Key Deliverables / Outcomes

• Interactive media production budget, schedule, and vendor relationships through careful planning, organization of materials, and communication and follow-up.
• Tools and processes that build on and improve established OPC Museum team conventions fo