ŌURA

Senior Studio Manager

ŌURA

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Alaska • Iowa • United States

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Salary

💰 $143,650 - $169,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Serve as the single source of truth for the status and health of all active projects within the department.
  • Maintain a holistic, high-level view of the entire department’s workload to ensure the creative engine is operating at its best.
  • Monitor individual bandwidth across the team to prevent fragmentation and ensure a sustainable pace of work for all creatives.
  • Match projects to specific designers, writers, and artists based on a deep understanding of their unique skills, styles, and current allocations.
  • Develop 3–6 month capacity forecasts to help anticipate resource needs and potential hiring requirements.
  • Identify and resolve friction points within the internal creative process to improve collective output and team morale.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for the creative team to ensure all incoming requests are complete and actionable.
  • Partner with Marketing Ops to provide a creative lens on the request pipeline, ensuring projects are prioritized by business impact and team bandwidth.
  • Review new briefs to identify missing information or strategic gaps, ensuring creatives have everything they need to begin work immediately.
  • Determine the most effective timing for creative involvement in each project to ensure high-quality results and efficient use of time.
  • Protect the creative team’s bandwidth and prevent overload by consolidating fragmented or overlapping requests into cohesive workstreams.
  • Prepare logistical materials for leadership reviews and cross-functional meetings to ensure clear communication on project status.
  • Advise cross-functional partners on project feasibility and timelines during the initial intake phase to ensure realistic project launches.
  • Act as the lead operational counterpart to the Creative Director, translating creative vision into executable plans.
  • Help to stand up a global creative presence that supports regional needs globally while maintaining brand consistency.
  • Build and maintain a global bench of trusted freelance talent (designers, writers, producers) who can activate quickly as needed.
  • Partner with project-specific Producers to ensure individual project schedules align with the broader department’s priorities and total capacity.
  • Tailor and refine the operational workflows and tools to ensure they meet the specific, daily logistical needs of the creative team.
  • Serve as a proxy for creative leads in operational discussions to ensure the team’s needs are represented in cross-functional planning.
  • Foster a culture of operational excellence that complements and protects creative ambition.

Requirements

  • 7+ years in creative operations, creative project management, or creative services — ideally within a high-growth consumer brand, agency, or in-house creative team
  • Experience managing a blended resourcing model: internal teams, freelancers, and agency partners simultaneously
  • Proven ability to understand and assess creative briefs with strong instincts for information gaps and brief readiness
  • Experience building and scaling creative workflows and resourcing models across large, multi-channel organizations
  • Strong cross-functional fluency — comfortable operating at the intersection of creative, marketing, product, and business stakeholders
  • Deep experience in brand, product, and marketing creative — you know what great looks like and you know what it takes to produce it
  • Experience at a wearable, health tech, or consumer goods brand (in-house or through long term agency partnership)
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and equity packages
  • Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
  • An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
  • 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
  • Paid sick leave and parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
creative project managementresource forecastingworkflow developmentcreative brief assessmentproject schedulingcapacity planningoperational workflowscross-functional collaborationcreative process improvementtalent management
Soft Skills
communicationleadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solvingteam morale enhancementstrategic thinkingadaptabilitycollaborationoperational excellencecultural awareness