[Remote] Director, Creative Operations
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients. They are seeking a Director, Creative Operations to partner with various leaders to define and optimize processes, ensuring efficient operations within the creative team. This role involves overseeing daily operations, refining creative processes, and contributing to team culture and business strategy.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the creative team, ensuring resources are allocated effectively, timelines are met, and projects are delivered on time and on budget
- Continuously evaluate and refine creative processes to ensure efficiency, scalability, and adaptability across brands and projects
- AI implementation and adoption in workflows and process
- Create and manage dashboards and data for process analysis and improvement
- Document and think critically about ways of working and collaboration
- Facilitate and lead the onboarding of new Kettle creatives, optimizing and systematizing that process to set new hires up for success
- Help shape and communicate team mission, vision, and values development
- Be the champion for team rituals, events, and meetings strategy
- With HR and Talent and key discipline leads, develop leveling and career pathways progression and documentation, hiring and onboarding processes, and management standards
- Participate in quarterly and yearly planning discussions
- Understand team financials, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively to meet strategic goals within budget
- Contribute to offerings definition and development
Skills
- Significant experience in a digital, creative agency and/or fast-paced creative tech organization
- A background in Production, Program Management, Creative Resourcing, Creative Operations, and/or People Operations, preferably in a growth-oriented environment
- A problem solver mentality, with the ability to break down complex problems into simple steps and actions, and create streamlined processes
- Excellent communication and listening skills, and the ability to influence others at various levels and on cross-functional teams
- Experience operating at 10,000 feet, and the ability to sit down with creatives and producers to solve day-to-day challenges
- The ability to work West Coast hours, and/or be located in the SF or LA area
Company Overview
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