Head of Creative Operations

Harvey

Head of Creative Operations to build team structure and workflows for a creative function in a fast-scaling tech company. Lead creative producers and operational strategies in the marketing department.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $221,600 - $332,400 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of creative producers spanning brand, campaign, video, events, and web production, setting a high bar for project management and execution quality.
Build and maintain an operating model for Brand & Creative that covers intake, prioritization, resourcing, trafficking, and reporting, giving the team and stakeholders clear visibility into work and tradeoffs.
Define and manage how work enters the team, including intake forms, briefing standards, and prioritization frameworks that balance urgency with strategic importance and protect space for high-impact work.
Own creative project management tooling (e.g., Asana, Airtable, Linear, or similar) and the workflows, templates, and standards that ensure consistent use across producers, designers, writers, and partners.
Oversee capacity planning and resourcing across internal creatives, producers, agencies, and freelancers, making informed recommendations on when to flex with vendors versus hire in-house.
Manage relationships with external production companies, agencies, and freelancers, from selection and scoping through onboarding, day-to-day coordination, and performance accountability.
Track and manage budgets across campaigns, shoots, events, and other creative programs, surfacing risks early, proposing options, and partnering with leadership to make responsible tradeoffs.
Develop and maintain playbooks, process documentation, and scalable workflows that reduce friction, improve predictability, and protect creative quality as the volume and complexity of work grow.
Act as connective tissue between Brand & Creative and functions like Marketing, Product Marketing, Comms, Sales, and Customer Success, translating business needs into clear creative plans and timelines.
Continuously identify workflow and collaboration pain points, run experiments to improve them, and measure impact using both qualitative feedback and operational metrics.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in creative operations, production management, or brand operations, ideally in-house at a high-growth technology company.
3+ years managing teams of producers or project managers, with a track record of developing talent and raising the operational bar.
Deep command of creative project management tools and how to configure them for a fast-moving team (Asana, Airtable, Linear, or similar), including building workflows, dashboards, and reporting.
Experience managing complex, multi-faceted productions across brand campaigns, video, events, and digital/web, from initial briefing through delivery and post-mortems.
Proven ability to manage agency and freelancer relationships at scale, including contracts, onboarding, scopes of work, feedback rituals, and performance accountability.
Strong budget management skills: comfortable owning and reconciling spend across multiple concurrent projects and vendors, and surfacing risks before they become problems.
Comfort operating at both the strategic and executional level — you can design the system and also step in to handle urgent issues when needed.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to manage up, across, and alongside creative teams and cross-functional stakeholders, building trust and alignment.
A process-oriented mindset paired with genuine appreciation for creative craft and quality; you know when to add structure and when to get out of the way.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
Flexible PTO

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Hard Skills & Tools

creative operationsproduction managementbrand operationsbudget managementworkflow designproject managementcapacity planningrelationship managementrisk managementperformance accountability

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationstrategic thinkingprocess-oriented mindsetproblem-solvingtrust buildingalignmentcreativity appreciation