Senior Creative Operations Lead, Brand

Braze · San Francisco · Marketing

Posted 2026-08-03

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As the Senior Creative Operations Lead, Brand, you own how work moves through the Brand organization. You design, evolve, and lead the operational systems that enable high-quality creative output across campaigns, content, events, video, and evergreen production—globally and at scale.

You operate as a highly senior individual contributor and strategic operator, acting as a trusted partner to Creative Directors, Associate Creative Directors, and Marketing leadership. Your work brings calm to complexity, alignment across teams, and rigor to how creative work is planned, delivered, and sustained.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Brand Operations Strategy & Ownership

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

Planning, Capacity & Delivery Enablement

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

Systems, Process & Tooling

Own and optimize Asana workflows, templates, SLAs, and reporting across Brand

Build scalable operational playbooks for campaigns, events, video, and always-on production

Identify and implement tools, automation, and AI-assisted workflows where they meaningfully improve speed, quality, or visibility

Ensure operational systems support both creative excellence and team sustainability

Financial & Vendor Stewardship

Oversee creative budgets, vendor spend, and forecasting in partnership with Finance

Lead agency onboarding, scoping, and procurement needs

Ensure financial rigor, transparency, and efficiency across Brand production

Partner with People, Finance, and Marketing leadership on org health, resourcing strategy, and long-term scale

WHO YOU ARE

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

Acts as a connective layer between creative ambition and operational reality

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $122,000 and $192,000/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $144,000 and $226,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.

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