Creative Systems & Optimization Manager

You will …

• Own the design and evolution of the studio's operational workflows - building frameworks flexible enough to move with shifting business needs, yet structured enough to scale and stay easy for others to follow.
• Apply strong project management fundamentals - setting milestones and deadlines from a brief, driving the decisions needed to execute within time constraints, and pushing every project through to completion, even when things are ambiguous or change at the last minute.
• Own all studio intake as the single point of contact for every video brief across brands and channels: scoping, prioritizing, and routing every request against total studio capacity
• Identify, evaluate, and implement automations, AI tools, and templates that lift the studio's operating efficiency.
• Maintain the studio's performance data and reporting - trends, production velocity, and project-level status - keeping the Head of Creative Production, project teams, and other stakeholders ahead of timelines and risk.
• Coordinate schedules and workflows with the wider creative operations team and Growth Operations, keeping cross-studio campaigns and the paid social content pipeline in sync.
• Stay close enough to every project in the pipeline that creatives always have what they need to keep moving, and that no question sits unanswered long enough to cause a delay.
• Work closely with stakeholders and creative teams to shape expectations and define project scope, and manage those relationships day to day - including negotiating, and where necessary pushing back on, channel requests against budget and priority so the studio's limited creative capacity goes toward what the business actually needs.
• Own resourcing and allocation across the creative team - assessing priority, balancing workload and timelines, and adjusting on the fly so creatives can sustain their pace without projects slipping.
• Onboard, train, and manage freelance creatives and creative partners or vendors, flexing the team's capacity up or down against demand.
• Partner with global stakeholders on localization, translation and versioning of assets, ensuring creative holds up at both a product and creative level in every local market.
• Ensure projects launch on time and to expectation, and drive the post-campaign assessments that follow.
• Bring critical thinking to competing business interests, cross-functional friction, and risk resolution.

You are…

• Impeccably organized, with an eye for detail that doesn't slow you down.
• Fluent in paid social media channels, growth funnels, and performance marketing
• An empowered self-starter with strong time, people, and stakeholder management instincts.
• A confident negotiator on time, scope, budget, and resources - comfortable pushing back when a request doesn't match the studio's capacity.
• A systems thinker who'd rather design the framework than just manage what runs through it.
• An AI power-user: you build and maximize automation proactively, a self-starter obsessed with efficiency rather than waiting to be told what to do
• A natural coach, comfortable onboarding, training, and developing freelance creative talent.
• Able to run high volumes of concurrent projects through prioritization and organization under tight deadlines.
• Able to follow through, own, and guide a project from infancy to execution - even when very little is known at the start.
• A fan of working in an ultra-fast-paced environment.
• A creative thinker who uses non-linear approaches and critical thinking to proactively problem-solve and steer projects.
• Willing to challenge assumptions and the status quo in favor of iterative, adaptive change.
• Solution-oriented - you flag and fix problems as they arise, not after the fact.