Creative Operations Manager

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⛰️ Colorado, Utah, +1 more states – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote 🦬 Wyoming – Remote

💵 $65k - $75k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍🎨 Art Director

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Stio

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

👥 B2C

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

B2C • Fashion • Retail

Stio is a brand that designs and sells high-performance outdoor apparel for men, women, and kids. Founded by Stephen Sullivan, the company offers a wide range of clothing, footwear, and accessories suitable for various outdoor activities such as skiing, snowboarding, hiking, running, biking, fishing, and paddling. Based in the mountains, their collections focus on both functionality and style, catering to lifestyle needs and challenging outdoor environments. Stio also engages in collaborative projects with other brands and prioritizes environmental stewardship and the renewal of used apparel through its Stio Second Turn initiative.

📋 Description

• Own the creative team’s full project pipeline from brief intake through final delivery. Managing priorities, timelines, and stakeholder alignment across every workstream • Build and maintain detailed workback calendars across seasonal campaigns, product launches, channel executions, and evergreen creative needs • Serve as the primary coordination point between Creative and cross-functional partners including Brand Marketing, Digital, E-commerce, Retail, and Product • Facilitate project kick-offs, weekly check-ins, and milestone reviews with clear agendas and action-oriented follow-ups • Track and communicate project status, team bandwidth, and key deadlines to creative leadership; surface roadblocks early and help resolve them • Partner with the go-to-market team to ensure creative production timelines ladder up correctly to seasonal launch dates • Own, maintain, and continuously improve Stio’s creative workflow systems including Asana project architecture, intake processes, and team operating rhythms • Establish and enforce consistent brief standards, ensuring clarity and completeness before work begins to reduce revision cycles • Lead creative capacity planning. Balancing workload across the team, setting realistic expectations, and advocating for the team’s bandwidth • Identify process inefficiencies and implement solutions that bring structure and consistency to how work moves through the creative function • Champion adoption of AI tools across the creative team. Identifying opportunities to streamline production, automate repeatable tasks, and improve output quality • Own Stio’s Digital Asset Management platform (Bynder) overseeing asset organization, taxonomy, standards, and team adoption • Establish and maintain DAM governance: naming conventions, metadata standards, folder architecture, and asset lifecycle management • Ensure seasonal creative assets are properly organized, tagged, and accessible to cross-functional stakeholders and channel teams in a timely manner • Co-manage relationships with external freelancers, photographers, and creative vendors — coordinating contracts, timelines, and deliverables • Track and process vendor and freelancer invoices accurately and on time, in partnership with ACD and other key stakeholders • Partner with the Associate Creative Director on seasonal planning, resource allocation, and team capacity strategy • Contribute to post-project retrospectives and lessons-learned sessions translating insights into process improvements • Bring a data-informed perspective to creative operations: tracking on-time delivery rates, revision cycles, and team throughput to inform continuous improvement • Support onboarding of new creative team members and partners into Stio’s tools, workflows, and operating standards

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing creative or marketing workflows, ideally within an in-house creative team, brand, or agency environment • Proven track record of building and maintaining project management systems. You’ve designed the process, not just followed it • Proficient in Asana or similar; experienced in building project architecture, templates, and team workflows from the ground up • Hands-on experience with a Digital Asset Management platform (Bynder strongly preferred); comfortable owning DAM governance and driving team adoption • Fluent with AI tools and actively curious about how they can improve creative production workflows. You’re not waiting to be told, you’re already experimenting • Strong brief-writing instincts. You know what makes a brief clear enough to actually brief from, and you’re not afraid to push back when it isn’t • Clear, confident communicator who can translate strategy into process and process into action across creative and non-creative stakeholders • Highly organized, solutions-oriented, and calm under pressure, the kind of person who steadies the room when priorities shift • Comfortable holding the team accountable without micromanaging; skilled at keeping momentum through a creative personality mix • Experience working with consumer-facing brands in apparel, outdoor, lifestyle, or adjacent categories preferred • Genuine affinity for mountain lifestyle and the values that drive the Stio brand • Commitment to our company mission, vision, and values

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental Vision plans • Company Paid Long Term Disability • Employee Assistance Programs • 401k with Match • Generous paid time off policies • Gear test, perks and more