Senior Creative Operations Lead, Brand

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$116K/yr – $183K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize the Brand team's end-to-end creative operations from intake to launch, coordinating intake, resourcing, prioritization, and delivery while aligning cross-functional teams and forecasting workload.

  • Own and optimize end-to-end operations across creative, production, and agencies.
  • Lead forecasting, resourcing, and process improvements for campaigns, events, video, and always-on production.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the end-to-end creative operations model for the Brand team—from intake through launch
  • Define and continuously improve intake, briefing, resourcing, prioritization, and delivery processes
  • Serve as the senior point of accountability for how work flows across creative, production, and execution
  • Drive cross-Marketing alignment on operating models, expectations, and ways of working
  • Act as a strategic partner to Marketing, PMM, Events, Growth, and Regional teams
  • Partner with creative leadership to forecast workload, capacity, and resourcing needs
  • Balance internal teams, freelance support, and agency partners to enable scale and specialization
  • Set clear expectations around scope, timelines, and delivery—and hold teams accountable
  • Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs, guiding teams toward resolution
  • Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities with confidence, diplomacy, and decisiveness

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience in creative project management, creative operations, or production management
  • Proven experience leading operations for in-house creative or brand teams
  • Deeply fluent in creative workflows across brand, campaigns, video, motion, and events
  • Trusted communicator who can influence without authority
  • Thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments
  • Operates as the operational authority for Brand Creative.
  • Thinks in systems, not tasks; designs processes that scale
  • Influences without direct authority through trust, clarity, and consistency
  • Brings structure and calm to high-volume, high-visibility creative ecosystems
  • Balances strategic foresight with strong executional follow-through

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation that may include equity
  • Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
  • Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
  • Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
  • A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team connections, and innovation
  • Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
  • Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
  • Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®
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Braze

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Braze ($BRZE) is a leading customer engagement platform that powers lasting connections between consumers and brands they love. Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty. The company has been recognized as a 2024 U.S. News Best Technology Companies to Work For, is a 2023 UK Best Workplace for Women by Great Place to Work, and was named a Leader by Gartner® in the 2023 Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs and in The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Marketing Hubs, Q1 2023. Braze is headquartered in New York with 10+ offices across North America, Europe, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.

Founded in 2011
New York, New York, US
2.1K employees (146 in marketing)
73% recommend to a friend
93% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
804.1K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
38.1%
Direct
54.2%
Referral
5.2%
Social
1.2%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
100 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
6

Funding

Total Funding
$314.3M
Last Raise
$139.2M
Post IPO Equity, 11 months ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2025
    Post IPO Equity • $139.2M
  • Jun 2023
    Grant
  • Oct 2018
    Series E • $80M

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