Creative Operations Director

CaaStle

About the role:
CaaStle is seeking a motivated, passionate and highly organized Creative Operations Director to play an integral role within the Creative Team. As an entrepreneurial company at the cutting edge of retail’s rental movement, we are looking for this person to drive creative output within a fast-paced environment that supports the business objectives of our brands. The Creative Operations Director is responsible for overseeing and managing all Creative process and resource allocation (from staffing, project management and budget oversight) to facilitate and drive the development and review of all content (including but not limited to photography, email, social media assets, video and site assets). You will also oversee photo/video production (pre and post), digital asset creation and some print/outdoor/event. In addition, you will develop infrastructure and process of the Creative Department to increase timeliness and communications of creative development and output. S/he will add operational efficiency to the creative workflow via best practices and tools that streamline and structure the way creative work is produced.

What you’ll do:

The ideal profile would be an accomplished Creative Operations leader, with strong, results-driven, relationship management and collaboration skills
Manage creative project operations, including development, implementation and oversight of creative department workflow process and project resourcing in strong collaboration with the Creative Director.
Establish processes and infrastructure/tools that will lend itself to the overall efficiency of the creative development process.
Own all creative team agendas and lead Creative and Photography status meetings.
Pro-actively partner with Brand, Marketing, Merchandising and Product teams on intake and delivery of all creative work. Attend project kick-offs, review creative briefs (ensure all information is present for projects to be completed while collaborating with the Marketing/Product teams on revisions and feedback), and manage ticketing/assigning of all briefs.
Lead creative talent to achieve both department and project goals through open communication, executional support and organized creative processes.
Represent the Creative team perspective, goals and deliverables in meetings across multiple cross functional teams, including Marketing, Brand, Product, Merchandising, PR, Project Management, Producers, and external partners.
Manage Creative and Photography/Video schedules and set priorities to meet deadlines as well as troubleshoot problems as they arise.
Directly manage a team of 3 direct reports across all production(pre- and post-production across multiple locations)
Establish and manage resource pool of freelance talent across graphic design, copywriting, video production, illustration, video direction/production, video editing, retouching, etc.

We’d love for you to have:

Experience: 7-8+ years relevant work experience, most recently driving leadership within a creative traffic/operations environment.
Experience partnering with Creative and Marketing and VM teams to deliver digital materials for evergreen business, launches, and performance marketing across multiple brands
Strong leadership and project management skills. Must be capable of handling numerous projects in fast-paced, high-pressure environment ensuring deliverables are achieved on time while maintaining the highest quality. Previous experience leading a large team is a must.
General knowledge of digital asset creation (emails, performance marketing platforms (display media, mobile, social), photography, video, print production, etc.
Strong passion and motivation to refine processes in an operational creative environment. An analytical and operations-oriented mindset is key.
Excellent written and oral communications, excellent presentation skills, ability to personally organize and set priorities and to influence others.
Positive, flexible and well organized to thrive in a rapid environment and meet challenging deadlines
Ability to build strong relationships both internally and with outside vendors.
Must be pro- active, solutions oriented.
Knowledge of the functions of marketing, creative, product within a technology, fashion or start-up space.
Technology, Start-Up, Fashion, Beauty experience is a plus.
Manage a team of 3+, while partnering directly with Creative Director
Reports in Sr. Director of Brand and Creative

Even if you don’t meet all of these qualifications above, we’d still love to hear from you. Tell us about your unique qualifications in your cover letter.

Caastle is committed to equality of opportunity in employment. It has been and will continue to be the policy of Caastle to provide full and equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical or mental disability. This policy applies to all terms, conditions and privileges of employment, such as those pertaining to training, transfer, promotion, compensation and recreational programs.

Creative Producer: Training & Learning (Voices Incubator)

Purpose

Purpose builds and supports movements to advance the fight for an open, just, and habitable world. We use public mobilization and storytelling to help leading organizations, activists, businesses, and philanthropies engaged in this fight, and we create campaigning labs and new initiatives that can shift policies and change public narratives when it matters most.

To do this, Purpose brings together world-class talent from the world of creatives, content development, storytelling, campaigning, grassroots organizing, and political strategy to build new creative campaigning models.

Guided by smart strategy and powered by participation, our work reframes issues, engages new audiences, shifts public discourse, and ultimately drives targeted action and creates lasting impact. Join the team that made all this work!

ABOUT THE VOICES INCUBATOR

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) launched Grand Challenges to bring the world’s brightest minds together to solve our world’s most pressing challenges. By investing in small grants & holistic support, the Challenges foster innovation and experimentation for social impact. The Voices for Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge was launched to address the persistent toxic narratives about poverty in the U.S. In addition to providing $100,000 to 28 organizations, activists, and storytellers, BMGF is partnering with Purpose to design, support, and strengthen this community through the Voices for Economic Opportunity Incubator.

The Voices Incubator provides resources for participants around community & collaboration, learning & training, and testing & experimentation to support the creation of breakthrough creative, scalable and strategic interventions that begin to shift harmful narratives on poverty and economic mobility in America.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Purpose is seeking a Creative Producer of Training and Learning to join our diverse and exciting team. One of the key offerings of the Voices Incubator is a dynamic, virtual, and equity-centered curriculum for participants to learn from each other and access leading research on narrative change so that they can better change hearts and minds through their own creative projects. The Creative Producer of Training and Learning will help design the Incubator’s online gatherings and learning sessions, including a Virtual Convening with the full Incubator cohort, as well as homeroom sessions with tailored pairings of participants. In addition to developing the technical experience of our Training & Learning program, the Creative Producer will manage our relationships with experts and facilitators who present to the Incubator group, support the facilitation of online digital communications, and engage participants with accessible interactive tools. We are looking for someone who has experience managing virtual events or workshops with learning communities, project management expertise, and is comfortable with interactive tools.

We’re looking for team players with passion, a sharp mind, high integrity, a hands-on attitude, and a collaborative, problem-solving spirit.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Build and manage relationships with a diversity of partner individuals and organizations, from high-level funders to national nonprofits, legal funds, and local organizers
Plan, manage, recommend, collaborate, and coordinate between team members to deliver interactive learning sessions and experiential events
Implement learning strategy, planning and production
Manage virtual events from strategy alignment, briefing, and design development through production in partnership with key stakeholders
Coordinate with external facilitators, researchers, and performers to ensure through-line of experimentation, accessibility, and equity are maintained within all learning opportunities
Consistent communication with all team members, from core team to stakeholders, management and beyond
Respond to and interested in best practices in virtual events and sustained curriculum with remote, impacted communities
Budget management, including vendor contractors, external facilitators, and expense invoices
Create and maintain detailed timelines / work plans for all project deliverables and key milestones; hold delivery teams (i.e. strategy, campaigns, creative, freelancers, vendors) accountable to project plans.
Work with Senior Program Manager and operational teams at Purpose to ensure the Lab is supported by and capitalizing on the resources and expertise in-house.
Support the project team in sharing key learnings and insights from cohort experience to external partners, building a unique incubator model that can be replicated for future projects and groups.

Skills & Experience:

7+ years in virtual event management and/or project management for cause-based organizations and leaders
Experience designing online curricula or training programs geared toward frontline leaders and organizations within the US
Accessible approaches to diverse learning styles
Highly skilled in external communications, with a keen ability to know just how much information is enough to share to get the wheels turning
Demonstrated track record and/or interest in narrative change and persuasive storytelling, particularly as it applies to perceptions of economic inequality and mobility within the US

If these are things that get you out of bed in the morning we want to hear from you:

Thinking about how to make the world a better place
Obsessively thinking about the user experience and how to share learnings across diverse audiences and partners
Telling stories that stop the heart and move the mind that place the impacted voice at the center

Creative Operations Lead, Global Creative Lab

TikTok

Creative Operations Lead, Global Creative Lab About Us: At TikTok our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. The Global Business Marketing team fuels our global business brand and delivers impact to support the efforts of the regional marketing teams to bring this mission to life daily. The vision of Global Business Marketing is to create a global brand that amplifies our mission and establishes TikTok as a unique and critical investment for the industry we serve. Fostering best in class creative work on our platform, inspiring the industry through storytelling and showcasing our unique business brand at scale is the core focus of our collective team. We are creative entrepreneurs at heart, ready to dig in and capitalize on the potential and opportunities of the platform and its creative community. Our purpose is to inspire, educate and unlock the possibilities on TikTok for the marketing community and businesses of all sizes. We’re building a team of self-starters, motivated individuals and problem solvers who thrive in a fast-paced environment. You have an appetite for learning, innovation, and are comfortable working outside your primary skill set and comfort zone. The energy and results you will bring to the table have been proven in your contributions to world class marketing initiatives. Above all, you have a passion for TikTok and are full of ideas that will help propel the platform into the future. About the role: The Creative Ops Lead will make the creative process and internal workings of the Global Creative Lab efficient and smooth. The Creative Ops lead is a strategic visionary and will help set, evolve, define and share out the team’s mission and ways of working. This person will develop tools for ongoing training, new hires and educating other teams on how best to engage with the Global Creative Lab. The Creative Ops lead will help make the impossible possible, with a smile on their face. This person is an expert at process definition, efficiency, team building, resourcing and casting, prioritization, budgeting, project planning, production, negotiations, and contracts. The Creative Ops lead should have experience with top-down and bottom-up creative globalization, has worked at both agencies and client-side, and is skilled at managing teams and partnering across the organization. The Creative Ops lead is flexible and unflappable. This person will both guide the team’s producers and project managers while collaborating with creative, strategy and cross-functional partners. Responsibilities: – Partner closely to develop global creative initiatives and plan production approaches for new, complex or experimental projects. – Lead and participate in ideation sessions, optimizing briefs to enable creative innovation and deliver breakthrough results for business partners globally. – Identify and problem-solve issues related to staffing, resources and production methods for multiple, simultaneous work streams. – Coordinate Global Business Marketing activities and operations to secure efficiency and compliance to company policies. – Partner with Strategy & Research Sales and Events teams to integrate workflow and planning for improved cross-functional collaboration. – Lead and partner with a growing team of creative producers to execute featured programming and innovate new content formats. – Identify, brief and manage 3rd-party vendors, talent and creative partners. – Inform and craft production deals; write contracts, SOWs, terms of engagement. – Maintain open, collaborative relationships with counterparts in the advertising and production community. – Harness best-in-class production resources to push boundaries and enhance TikTok’s creative product. – Continuously monitor quality standards across production, troubleshooting challenges in real time.

Qualifications

– 12+ years experience in consumer-tech industries, including significant time spent in global roles. – Expertise in narrative and content development, team building, strategic planning, relationship management and resource allocation. – Proven track record of delivering global creative and effective marketing strategy efforts. – Experience in building, executing and measuring data-driven global marketing programs across online and traditional channels. – Experience leading large, dynamic teams. – Exceptional verbal and written communications skills. – Impeccable attention to detail, time management and organizational skills. – Experience in a start-up or media/advertising world is a plus.

Producer – Global Creative Operations, Origins

The Estée Lauder Companies

Responsible for the project management of specific global Creative programs in addition to supporting the production of all 360° global campaigns with a focus on photography, digital, social and video.

The individual will develop and distribute assets on a global basis and work closely with local markets to ensure that brand voice is consistent. He/she will also partner with cross-functional teams, to conceptualize, produce and execute on-brand creative content for all platforms.

In addition, this person will maintain a strong working knowledge of Origins brand, its heritage, customers, products and retail environments.

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage all Pre and post Production on all video/still assets including:

o Keeping all pre and post schedules up do date; Distributing schedules to creative partners to make sure everyone is on track

o Partnering with design director to ensure we have all comps, props, & anything needed for shoots

o Tracking all vendor estimates, obtaining estimate approval and making sure vendors are in the system and paid on time

o Coordinate all casting briefs and casting needs

o Planning, executing, and attending all shoots, to ensure are on schedule and we are capturing everything that was briefed

o Track and update the asset list with any production partners and internal partners

o Manage all retouching schedules and vendors to ensure files are delivered on time

o Communicating with vendors to obtain timely and accurate files

o Distribute all files to the right people

o Make sure that all files are on the server, naming configurations are correct and in the DAM.

Work closing with the art director on concepts to make sure what is being produced is within budget
Fiscally responsible and resourceful in finding alternative ways to save money; e.g. setting up an in house studio and shooting one off requests, hiring re-touchers, video director, to save resources
Plan as much in advance to be able to group shoots together
Responsible for execution of design concepts for both print and digital programs
Collaborate with Design, Visual Merchandising and Copy teams to develop cohesive in-store collateral.
Coordinate with multiple producers, re-touchers, techs, photographers and art directors to keep consistency across all projects
Participate in final image reviews
Manage ecommerce digital images and traffic images, plan timelines, delegate and track retouched assets for future and current use
Apply approved concept directions to designs of all program elements.
Prepare mechanical files and package for delivery.
Check all print proofs for color and artwork.
Participate in weekly Creative department status meetings to ensure timely delivery of all program elements.
Update status docs to make sure that everyone is communicated to
Manage social asset production from concept ideation to final asset delivery

o Spearhead planning of social shoots

o Manage copy timelines – pre and post approval.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree Preferred.
4 years of related experience with strong print and digital design background from conceptualization to production.
Strong ability to successfully communicate design direction and strategy.
Must have strong interpersonal skills and is able to work with a range of disciplines (marketing, creative, productions, etc.)
Superior knowledge on skills with Adobe Suites.
Expert knowledge of typography, color, usability, layout, production, and other design principles.
Conceptual thinking and hands-on design skills.
Strong ability to prioritize tasks and work both independently and as part of a team.
Strong ability to organize and manage multiple projects and to meet deadlines

Director, Brand Operations

HelloFresh

Come see what’s cookin’ at HelloFresh!At HelloFresh, we want to revolutionize the way we eat by making it more convenient and exciting to cook meals from scratch. We have offices all over the world and we deliver delicious meals to millions of people.We are the industry leader in meal-kit subscription services and we’re growing all the time. We have distinct meal-kit services that cater to everyone with the most menu variety in the market, which allows us to reach an incredibly wide population of people.The HelloFresh team is diverse, high-performing, and international, and our work environment is an inspiring space where you can thrive as a result.

Job Description:
HelloFresh is in search of a Director, Brand Operations to join our Brand team. The ideal candidate will be passionate about creative operations, production, and executing projects and programs to schedule, scope, budget and specification.

The Director, Brand Operations, reporting to the Senior Director of Brand, will oversee a team of 30, plus a host of freelance talent. He or she will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of our Brand functions, including recipe card production, project management, creative production and two photography studios.

You will …

Ambassador for Brand, creating meaningful relationships with key stakeholders
Oversee and lead critical brand marketing production teams
Development, implementation and oversight of creative workflow and process
Management, oversight and prioritization of the brand project portfolio
Budget management and forecasting for the Brand team in collaboration with Head of Brand
Establish processes and infrastructure in pursuit of greater efficiencies
Relationship management of Growth, Product, and Tech partners
Optimize our marketing tech systems (Bynder, Wrike, ACS, Sketch, etc)
Partner with Creative Director to ensure we have the right resources for the work demands
Resource ownership in collaboration with the Project Management lead
Lead communication of and defend critical portfolio decisions
Continually troubleshoot and recalibrate workflow, resourcing and prioritization issues
Own project reporting in collaboration with Project Management
Own the Brand Content Calendar in collaboration with Brand Marketing
Own the operation of two photo studios and their multi-disciplinary functions within
Scale and refine a recipe card production system to reduce errors and increase efficiency

You have...

8+ years in-house experience in creative, creative operations and/or production
Ability to motivate and influence others through displays of strong leadership
A bias for teamwork and advocacy for cross-functional collaboration
Demonstrated skill in managing complex integrated marketing campaigns
Ability to guide and influence work and teams without direct responsibility
Area expert in end-to-end production, including print, photography and video
Experience working with and/or managing in-house Creative teams
Demonstrated ability to manage a PMO and a large portfolio of projects
Strong knowledge of creative and production workflows and process
Ability to manage time appropriately and meet aggressive deadlines
Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
Adaptable to changing mandates and priorities in line with an ever-changing business

You’ll get…

Competitive Salary & 401k company match that vests immediately upon participation
Generous parental leave of 16 weeks & PTO policy
$0 monthly premium and other flexible health plans
75% discount on your subscription to HelloFresh (as well as other product initiatives)
Snacks, cold brew on tap & monthly catered lunches
Company sponsored outings & Employee Resource Groups
Collaborative, dynamic work environment within a fast-paced, mission-driven company