Creative Ops Lead
Leads the end-to-end creative production operation across paid social, lifecycle, partnerships, and brand. The role builds scalable workflows, manages internal and external talent, uses performance data to improve creative, and oversees compliance and delivery.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end creative pipeline across paid social, lifecycle, partnerships, and brand, including intake, briefing, prioritization, production, review, and delivery.
- Build and maintain briefs, trackers, asset libraries, naming conventions, and approval workflows.
- Allocate designers, motion talent, and freelancers against the campaign calendar and remove production bottlenecks.
- Use live ad performance data to update briefs and iterate or scale winning concepts.
- Source, negotiate with, onboard, and manage staffing agencies, freelancers, and vendors.
- Manage compliance operations for league and partner creative, including licensing guidelines, approval routing, and turnaround SLAs.
- Track and report creative throughput, cycle times, and hit rates, and continuously improve operations.
Requirements
- Proven ownership of end-to-end creative operations at a growth company.
- Experience building and managing paid-social creative workflows at scale across multiple concurrent campaigns.
- Experience sourcing, negotiating with, and managing freelance and agency partners under deadline pressure.
- Experience connecting ad performance data to creative production and moving from signal to updated brief to live asset quickly.
- Experience managing compliance workflows with external rights holders, including approval routing and SLA tracking.
- Strong cross-functional communication and business-impact orientation.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience setting up digital asset management systems and creative automation tooling.
- Experience with templated production, dynamic creative workflows, or AI-assisted generation.
- Background in crypto, fintech, or high-velocity consumer applications.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Hardware setup including a new MacBook Pro, display, and accessories.
Skills
Creative Operations, Paid Social, Creative Workflows, Ad Performance Data, Digital Asset Management, Creative Automation, Dynamic Creative, Ai-Assisted Generation, Licensing, Approval Workflows, Vendor Management, Campaign Management
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