Senior Studio Manager

ŌURA

Senior Studio Manager collaborating with the Creative Director at Oura. Building creative infrastructure and managing resources for brand, product, and marketing projects.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeRemote • Alaska, Iowa, Mississippi, New York, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $143,650 - $169,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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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