Senior Manager Brand Operations - San Francisco / Los Angeles

Responsibilities

• Global campaign rollout - Own the operational plan for global brand campaigns and tentpole moments, from brief through regional launch. - Build launch calendars, milestones, and readiness reviews across global, Americas, and EMEA teams. - Coordinate with agency partners, regional leads, and cross-functional teams to keep timelines and deliverables aligned.
• Global-to-regional playbooks - Design and maintain playbooks that define how global campaigns are handed off, adapted, and localized by region. - Set clear standards for what stays global, what regions adapt, and who approves each stage. - Partner with regional leads to manage localization workflows, translation, and market-specific adaptation.
• Creative process and resourcing - Build the creative intake, ticketing, and prioritization system for brand, content, and shoot requests. - Map creative capacity across in-house teams, agencies, and freelancers, and flag resourcing gaps early. - Run production planning for content and shoots, including scheduling, budgets, and asset delivery.
• Marketing and project planning - Lead the annual and quarterly marketing planning cycle, including roadmap development and OKR tracking. - Run project management across brand initiatives: scoping, timelines, dependencies, risks, and status reporting. - Maintain a single source of truth for the marketing roadmap across global and regional teams.
• Team operations - Support team planning, including headcount mapping, onboarding, and operating rhythms. - Run recurring team rituals such as weekly syncs, planning reviews, and post-launch retrospectives. - Roll out new processes and tools, and drive adoption across the team.

Requirements

• 8+ years in marketing operations, brand operations, program management, and/or agency production.
• Experience running multi-region campaigns or launches across the US and Europe.
• Proven track record building processes and playbooks from scratch in a fast-growing company.
• Strong command of project management tools such as Notion, Asana, Airtable, or similar.
• Clear, calm communicator who aligns senior stakeholders, agencies, and regional teams.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, and skilled at bringing structure to fast-moving work.

Preferred

• Background in consumer tech, hardware, or AI.
• Experience with localization workflows and global creative production.
• Experience supporting a global brand campaign with a lead creative agency.

Benefits

• Founding Team: Opportunity to join the founding team of this new initiative, with meaningful ownership and impact on a fast-growing startup.
• Competitive Compensation: $140K-$200K base salary+performance bonus+Equity.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
• Retirement Planning: 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching.
• Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
• New Parent Leave: 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.
• Hybrid Office: Minimum of 3x in office per week.
• Gear: New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups.
• Perks: Best office equipment. Annual offsites. Free office drinks and snacks.