{"id":3769565,"url":"https://alion.io/job/fanatics-creative-ops-manager-performance","title":"Creative Ops Manager, Performance","company":{"id":1756301,"name":"Fanatics","domain":"fanatics.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/fanatics-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":87,"open_postings":12,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.417,"repost_share":0.167,"time_to_fill_p50_days":43,"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Leeds, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Airtable","optional":false},{"name":"Figma","optional":false},{"name":"Google Workspace","optional":false},{"name":"Slack","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-04T20:09:28Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T17:43:12Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Us\nFanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. \nAbout the Team\nLaunched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.\nThe Role\nIn this role, you'll own the full lifecycle of creative projects from brief to final delivery across a high-volume, fast-turnaround marketing calendar. That means always knowing what the team is working on, what's coming next, and what's realistically achievable. You'll be the person stakeholders trust for a straight answer, and the person the creative team trusts to protect their time.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead end-to-end management of creative projects, delivering on time and on brief across the campaign calendar.\nOwn brief intake: review incoming requests and ensure every brief arrives complete and ready for action.\nBuild and maintain the studio schedule, resourcing the team against live and forecast demand.\nAssign work thoughtfully, with clear direction, deadlines, and context.\nKeep project tracking and timelines accurate in Airtable and the rest of the studio toolset, so the whole team can rely on them.\nReview deliverables for quality, brand consistency, and inclusion of legal, regulatory, and responsible gaming requirements.\nOwn the creative relationship with brand, marketing, media, product, and social teams.\nManage approvals across creative leads, legal, compliance, and business stakeholders - driving timely sign-off and keeping an auditable record.\nManage freelance and agency onboarding, POs, and invoicing alongside the Director, Creative Operations.\nChampion AI-assisted production and workflow tools where they add speed without compromising quality or compliance.\nWhat You Bring\n4+ years in creative project management, creative operations, digital production, or marketing operations.\nAbility to build strong relationships with the multiple teams, including the creative, brand, marketing, external partners and wider stakeholders.\nStrong understanding of creative workflows and production processes, ideally within an in-house studio.\nProven ability to run a high-volume pipeline across multiple concurrent campaigns.\nProficiency with Airtable, Figma, Google Workspace, and Slack, with a real instinct for process improvement.\nHighly organized and detail-oriented - across versions, approvals, specs, and deadlines.\nA calm, direct communicator who can hold a line with senior stakeholders while keeping the relationship strong.\nComfortable presenting process improvements or workflow case studies from past roles.\nBonus Points\nExperience in a regulated industry such as online gaming or sports betting, or where compliance and legal review workflows are key.\nExperience implementing process improvements with AI tooling.\nYour First 90 Days\nYou'll map how work currently flows through the studio, stand up a single source of truth for what's in flight, and deliver our first clear read on capacity.\nDepending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE-a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.\nFor information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/\nBy submitting your application, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our Candidate Privacy Policy.\nFanatics will never ask candidates for money, banking information, or other sensitive personal information as part of the interview process. If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Fanatics recruiting, please do not respond and report it here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5523,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["E-commerce Platforms","Apparel & Fashion Brands"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-04T21:13:32Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":43,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/fanatics-creative-ops-manager-performance","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/fanatics-creative-ops-manager-performance.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T19:20:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":26030,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1756301},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1756301"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ffanatics-creative-ops-manager-performance"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ffanatics-creative-ops-manager-performance"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ffanatics-creative-ops-manager-performance"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/fanatics-creative-ops-manager-performance\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ffanatics-creative-ops-manager-performance"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3769565}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"fanatics.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3769565},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}