manager, Advertising Operations

Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

$109K/yr – $178K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 22 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end production for advertising campaigns across film, social, audio, OOH and activations, leading on-set execution, budgeting, and cross-functional collaboration while mentoring the team.

  • Own end-to-end production for campaigns across film, social, audio, OOH and activations.
  • Lead talent casting, licensing, and on-set operations, ensuring brand, legal, and timing alignment.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the end-to-end production process for advertising campaigns, including film, paid social, audio, OOH, photography, digital assets and activations.
  • Partner with creative, marketing, and agency teams to bring campaign concepts to life.
  • Manage production budgets, ensuring cost efficiency while maintaining high-quality standards.
  • Serve as the point person on set, ensuring smooth execution and troubleshooting challenges.
  • Establish and uphold production best practices, ensuring compliance with brand and legal guidelines.
  • Guide and mentor junior production team members.
  • Partner with agencies and cross-functional teams to evaluate talent, music, licensing, and intellectual property opportunities, ensuring leaders understand creative, financial, legal, operational, and timing considerations before decisions are made.
  • Facilitate the integration of retail operations, partner talent, and physical store environments into advertising productions while preserving brand integrity and operational excellence.
  • Lead partner talent casting processes, including candidate evaluation, good-standing verification, approvals, and coordination with field leadership and Partner Resources.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience supporting advertising production, project management, or integrated marketing campaigns in an agency, production company, or in-house brand environment.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills.
  • Proven ability to manage large-scale productions and cross-functional teams.
  • Experience managing budgets and vendor negotiations.
  • Deep understanding of production workflows, post-production, and media delivery.
  • Experience managing location-based productions and employee or partner talent casting processes preferred.

Benefits

  • As a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits. Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date of hire*, sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked), eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year. Starbucks also offers eligible partners participation in a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, a discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock), incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools. Additionally, Starbucks offers 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, student loan management resources, and access to other educational opportunities. You will also have access to backup care and DACA reimbursement.
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3.6 Glassdoor

At Starbucks, we like to say that we are not in the coffee business serving people, but in the people business serving coffee. Here, our employees - who we call partners – are the heart of the Starbucks experience, and being a partner means aspiring to become part of something bigger: inspiring positive change in the world and growing in your career and in your community. ​ It’s an opportunity to be your personal best. ​ Starbucks is an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals, including minorities, veterans and individuals with disabilities.​​ In everything we do, we are dedicated to our mission: To be the premier purveyor of the finest coffee in the world, inspiring and nurturing the human spirit — one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time. Join us. Inspire with every cup. Explore opportunities, benefits and more at careers.starbucks.com

Founded in 1971
Seattle, WA, US
166K employees (1,935 in marketing)
61% recommend to a friend
58% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$109K/yr – $178K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$2.7B
Last Raise
$1.8B
Post IPO Debt, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1.8B
  • Jul 2024
    Post IPO Equity
  • Oct 2018
    Post IPO Equity • $900M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
16.3M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$499.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37%
Direct
44%
Referral
11.6%
Social
1.5%
Paid
5.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~179.3K

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manager, Advertising Operations

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