Senior Manager, Brand & Creative Ops

San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

$124K/yr – $204K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Owns creative operations from strategy to capacity planning and governance, turning demand into a scalable operating system and cost-aware resourcing across internal and external partners.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build capacity forecasting, portfolio-level planning, and predictive models to align resources with quarterly and yearly demand.
  • Workflow & Governance: Standardize intake, gates, SLAs, and project management across design partners and agencies.
  • Resourcing & Partnerships: Architect build vs buy vs outsource, headcount planning, and vendor management to optimize budgets and talent.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define the multi-year roadmap for creative operations capabilities, aligning with business growth objectives.
  • Set operational vision and strategic direction for the creative operations function.
  • Continuously evolve operations and brand operating system/ team processes and structure to meet changing business needs.
  • Architect the creative team resourcing structure and determine build vs. buy vs. outsource decisions for creative capabilities to optimize resourcing budget.
  • Partner with brand and creative leadership on headcount planning and talent/ agency
  • Provide financial reporting and forecasting for operations expenses.
  • Track freelance/ agency overages/ underages to flag any cost issues in a timely manner.
  • Owns and oversees creation of GANTS and workbacks
  • Ensures intake of requests is streamlined – correct process, templates etc
  • Oversee project management to schedule workflow meetings, reviews and reporting meetings in a timely manner

Requirements

  • 10–15+ years of experience leading creative operations, marketing operations, or program management in agency or in-house creative environments.
  • Proven track record of building and scaling creative operations functions.
  • Experience leading teams and managing direct reports.
  • Demonstrated success in capacity planning, vendor management, and technology implementation.
  • Experience with creative operations tools (e.g., Workfront, Asana, Monday, DAM systems, Figma).
  • Exceptional strategic thinking with ability to translate vision into operational execution.

Preferred

  • Experience with AI-enabled creative workflows

Benefits

  • Bonus Program
  • 401k Retirement Plan
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, Short Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Coverage
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Support for Community Involvement
  • 14 Paid Company Holidays
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off for Exempt Employees
  • 96 Hours of Sick Time and 120 Hours of Vacation for Non-Exempt Employees Accrued Each Year
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Sunnyvale, California, USA
5.6K employees (326 in marketing)

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20.5M
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$894.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
19.3%
Direct
71.7%
Referral
5.4%
Social
0.7%
Paid
2.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~5.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
256 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
15.5 years
Median Tenure
5.8 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2022
    Debt Financing
  • Mar 2022
    Private Equity
  • Sep 1991
    Private Equity

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