Creative Operations Manager/Senior Manager

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$86K/yr – $223K/yrSenior Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 22 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the marketing operations workflow for the in‑house creative studio, overseeing intake, resourcing, scheduling, budget tracking, and a freelance roster, while driving automation to reduce manual work.

  • Own intake, briefing quality, and briefing-to-work handoff
  • Manage work management systems, templates, reports, and capacity planning
  • Maintain the master schedule and budget tracking to ensure on-time delivery

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Intake and brief quality
  • - Run the intake queue day to day, triaging incoming requests and keeping the queue current and accurate.
  • - Hold the bar on brief quality, pushing back on incomplete or unclear briefs before work is scheduled.
  • - Work with requesters to sharpen scope, deliverables, and timing so projects start with a clear definition of done.
  • Trafficking and resourcing
  • - Traffic work to the right teams and assign resources against current capacity.
  • - Track utilization and surface conflicts, bottlenecks, and over-allocation before they affect delivery.
  • - Partner with producers and creative leads to rebalance assignments as priorities shift.
  • Work management systems
  • - Serve as administrator for the work management platform, owning templates, workflows, permissions, and reporting views.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years of marketing operations, program management, project management, or related experience OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

  • 5+ years of experience in creative operations, studio operations, project management, or agency traffic management, or equivalent experience.
  • Hands-on experience with a work management platform such as Workfront, Asana, Wrike, or Airtable.
  • Experience in an in-house creative studio or a creative agency, supporting designers, writers, and producers.
  • Administrator-level ownership of a work management platform, including building templates, workflows, and reports.
  • Experience with resource and capacity planning across concurrent projects and competing priorities.
  • Experience tracking project budgets and managing freelance rosters, rates, and onboarding.
  • Familiarity with digital asset management, review and approval tooling, and creative production workflow.
  • Experience applying AI or automation to reduce manual operational and reporting work.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the confidence to push back constructively on incomplete requests.
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Founded in 1975
Redmond, Washington, US
237K employees (11,715 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$86K/yr – $223K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$1M
Last Raise
$1M
Post IPO Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jan 2020
    Post IPO Equity
  • Sep 1981
    Series Unknown • $1M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3B
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.6%
Direct
56.9%
Referral
7.3%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~225.8K

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Creative Operations Manager/Senior Manager

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