{"id":3705441,"url":"https://alion.io/job/stanley-1913-sr-manager-creative-operations","title":"Sr. Manager, Creative Operations","company":{"id":686068,"name":"Stanley 1913","domain":"stanley1913.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/stanley1913","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Marketing","role_family":"Marketing","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Seattle, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":145000,"max":165000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":165000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Asana","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-03T18:27:50Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T16:20:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About us: Stanley 1913 - Built for Life® since 1913. \nThe Stanley 1913 brand has fueled the human experience since the iconic Stanley vacuum bottle revolutionized the way people enjoyed food and beverage. Today, our colorful and thoughtfully designed products including the popular Quencher™ series go beyond function, elevating everyday moments with style and empowering active lifestyles. We’re a community of creators, builders, and inventors who believe in creating sustainable products for a better life and world that minimizes our impact on the planet. Learn more at www.stanley1913.com.\nPosition Overview\nThe Stanley 1913 brand is seeking a Sr. Manager, Creative Operations to join the Global Marketing Operations team and lead the processes, planning, and day-to-day coordination that enable our Global Creative organization to deliver impactful and consistent creative.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role responsible for both building creative operating processes and managing their daily execution. The Sr. Manager will run creative request intake, maintain resource plans, and directly manage priority creative workstreams from kickoff and scheduling through reviews, approvals, and delivery.\nPartnering closely with Creative leadership, Campaign Operations, Marketing Operations, and regional marketing teams, this person will bring clarity to priorities, improve insight into capacity, and help teams navigate competing demands.\nThe ideal candidate combines operational thinking with strong project management skills. They are comfortable building a process, running the meeting, updating the schedule, following up on feedback, and resolving the details that keep creative work moving. They bring curiosity about technology and practical experience using tools and automation to improve how teams work.\nWhat You'll Do\nCreative Operations & Process Improvement\nOwn and evolve core creative workflows, establishing clear roles, handoffs, review checkpoints, and expectations.\nLead creative standups and workflow reviews, maintaining actionable schedules, status updates, and follow-ups.\nIdentify recurring workflow challenges and implement practical improvements, sequencing process development alongside delivery needs.\nMaintain clear process documentation and use measures such as turnaround times, review cycles, and on-time delivery to assess effectiveness.\nIdentify and implement opportunities to use Asana, AI tools, and automation to reduce manual work, improve visibility, and strengthen creative workflows.\nPilot practical tools and new ways of working, assess their impact, and support team adoption in alignment with company technology and data policies.\nTeam Leadership & Digital Creative Workflows\nDirectly manage and develop the Digital Creative Production Coordinator, setting clear goals, providing regular feedback, and supporting professional growth.\nSupport the Coordinator’s day-to-day ownership of Web, Email, and Paid Media creative workflows, providing guidance on priorities, dependencies, and critical issues.\nPartner with the Coordinator, Creative leadership, and channel teams to build and evolve processes for digital creative requests, development, reviews, and delivery.\nIntegrate digital workstream demand into the broader creative resource plan, ensuring insight into shared resources and helping resolve competing needs across projects.\nBuild on established channel relationships and workflows to improve coordination and consistency across the creative team.\nCreative Request Intake & Prioritization\nRun the creative request intake process, ensuring requests include clear objectives, scope, deliverables, timing, and partner input.\nAssess brief readiness and resource needs, working with requesting teams to resolve gaps before creative development begins.\nMaintain a consolidated view of incoming, active, and upcoming work.\nRecommend priorities and sequencing based on business needs and available capacity, partnering with Creative leadership to confirm decisions.\nRoute requests into appropriate workflows and manage scope or timing changes, making tradeoffs visible and bringing up competing demands.\nCreative Resource Management\nDevelop and maintain a resource management model that provides transparency into workload, capacity, and planned demand across creative fields.\nWork with creative team leads to develop resource plans and recommend assignments based on project needs, skills, and availability.\nIdentify capacity constraints and recommend changes to sequencing, scope, or external creative support; partner with Creative leadership on final allocation decisions.\nKeep resource plans current as priorities shift and use workload insights to inform future staffing and capability needs.\nCreative Kickoff & Development\nDirectly manage internally developed creative projects across design and copy, partnering with the photo studio and production teams on dependencies and handoffs.\nLead creative kickoffs, ensuring alignment on objectives, scope, ownership, required inputs, and approval responsibilities.\nSchedule and facilitate creative reviews, consolidate collaborator feedback, document decisions, and follow up on approvals and next steps.\nTrack progress, risks, and dependencies through final creative delivery, resolving workflow issues and raising decisions when needed.\nCoordinate handoffs of approved creative to marketing, regional, channel, or other internal requestors.\nGlobal & Regional Creative Review\nPartner with the Creative Director to establish and run a global review process for regionally developed creative, including campaign work developed from a marketing toolkit and ongoing regional initiatives.\nDefine review requirements, submission expectations, timelines, and approval responsibilities with Creative leadership.\nCoordinate submissions and review meetings, consolidate feedback from designated creative approvers, and track resolution through approval.\nPartner with regional project owners to integrate global reviews into their timelines while regional teams retain responsibility for local project management and execution.\nBrand Guidelines & Enablement\nPartner with Brand Design, which owns brand standards and guideline content, to keep approved guidance current, accessible, and visible across global and regional teams.\nCoordinate publication of guideline updates and communicate changes to internal teams and agency partners.\nSupport Brand Design in delivering onboarding and practical guidance on applying brand standards.\nWho You Are\n8+ years experience in creative operations or creative project management within a global brand, in-house creative team, or agency.\nDemonstrated ability to build practical creative processes while directly managing projects and daily workflows.\nExperience managing and developing direct reports, combining clear expectations and coaching with hands-on operational support.\nExperience running request intake, resource planning, prioritization, and collaborator review processes across multiple creative subject areas.\nStrong project management skills, including developing schedules, facilitating reviews, managing dependencies, and driving follow-through.\nExperience supporting Web, Email, and Paid Media creative workflows and coordinating shared creative resources across channel needs.\nAbility to recommend clear tradeoffs and facilitate decisions when priorities, timelines, or resources compete.\nStrong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence partners and support process adoption across global and regional teams.\nA proactive, thorough approach and willingness to work directly in project plans, status trackers, and workflow tools.\nHands-on experience using Asana to manage creative projects, intake, schedules, dependencies, and reporting.\nExperience using AI tools such as Claude to improve planning, documentation, or workflow efficiency, with sound judgment about appropriate use.\nCuriosity and initiative in testing new technologies, translating useful capabilities into repeatable practices, and helping teams adopt more effective ways of working.\nStanley 1913 is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. Stanley 1913 is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to .\nStanley 1913 is a total rewards company, which includes rewards beyond base salary. At Stanley 1913, full-time employees are eligible for an annual bonus, based on company and individual results. In addition, we offer a variety of employee benefits, personalized time off, 14-Paid holidays, dental, vision, 401(k), and much more.\nThe base pay range for this position is for a successful candidate within the state listed. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on multiple factors such as work location, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, and experience.\nSalary Range\n$145,000—$165,000 USD\nAbout our parent company: Morgan Street Holdings \nThe Stanley 1913 brand is owned by Morgan Street Holdings (formerly HAVI), a privately held enterprise with a diverse portfolio of operating companies, including HAVI Supply Chain, tms, and Continental. Morgan Street Holdings’ portfolio provides best-in-class sourcing and supply chain capabilities, brand-defining marketing and promotion services, innovative consumer products, and dining and refreshment food solutions. Morgan Street Holdings employs over 10,000 people and serves 300+ customers across the globe. \nMorgan Street Holdings supports the Stanley 1913 brand with competitive pay and benefits, along with exposure to diverse industries and professional networking and development opportunities.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9932,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Kitchenware & Cookware","Outdoor & Camping Gear"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T20:53:46Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":44,"reasons":["conf:4","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":165000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/stanley-1913-sr-manager-creative-operations","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/stanley-1913-sr-manager-creative-operations.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T18:36:52Z","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":28620,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"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":686068},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=686068"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fstanley-1913-sr-manager-creative-operations"},{"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%2Fstanley-1913-sr-manager-creative-operations"},{"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%2Fstanley-1913-sr-manager-creative-operations"},{"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/stanley-1913-sr-manager-creative-operations\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fstanley-1913-sr-manager-creative-operations"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3705441}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"stanley1913.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3705441},"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. 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