Brand Creative Operations Manager

Santa Monica, CA (On-site)

$104K/yr – $136K/yrMid Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive brand creative operations for apparel/retail, coordinating cross-functional teams and agencies to deliver on-time, on-budget campaigns.

  • Own end-to-end creative projects from brief to delivery with cross-functional partners.
  • Must-have: 8–10 years in retail/e-commerce creative teams or apparel/footwear context
  • Standout: Proven能力 to optimize workflows and manage milestones, budgets, and resources

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Brand Creative Operations Manager leads projects through the creative process from brief to delivery.
  • Drives process to execute and manage milestones, timelines, and priorities with internal partners and external agencies.
  • Manages projects through the creative lifecycle, collaborating with working groups, leadership and budget owners for on-time, on-budget delivery.
  • Identifies and escalates gaps within briefs, mitigating risk with actionable plans and scenario planning.
  • Coordinates with cross-functional operations and production partners to enable the work.
  • Leads toolkit coordination, asset management and trafficking.
  • In partnership with their manager, builds, owns and maintains processes to improve efficiencies, standards and operations across the function.
  • Supports resource planning, tracking and reporting.

Requirements

  • 8-10 years of direct experience in creative teams for large retail, e-commerce, or creative agency/production experience specific to the apparel/footwear industry
  • Ability to juggle changing priorities and multiple concurrent project workstreams while maintaining a positive attitude in the face of changing deliverables
  • Positive approach to problem solving through analytical thinking and operational efficacy
  • Must be a self-starter, critical thinker, team player, who thrives working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability
  • A genuine passion for brand creative and creative operations; track record instilling operational excellence for a creative team
  • Experience working with Teams, Excel, Smartsheet and other project management tools
  • Authorization to work in the United States is required for this role

Benefits

  • Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
  • Paid time off
  • Savings and retirement plan matching
  • Generous employee discount
  • Fitness & yoga classes
  • Parenthood top-up
  • Extensive catalog of development course offerings
  • People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series
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If you are seeking a job opportunity with lululemon, please note that our recruiters will only contact candidates using an @lululemon.com email address. -- lululemon athletica inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) is a healthy lifestyle inspired athletic apparel company for yoga, running, training, and most other sweaty pursuits, creating transformational products and experiences which enable people to live a life they love. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional designs, lululemon works with yogis and athletes in local communities for continuous research and product feedback.

Founded in 1998
Vancouver, BC, CA
24K employees (1,938 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
32.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
41.1%
Direct
51.9%
Referral
4.1%
Social
1.9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~24.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,353 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
20

Funding

Last Raise
Post IPO Secondary, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2021
    Post IPO Secondary
  • Aug 2014
    Post IPO Equity
  • Dec 2005
    Private Equity

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