Senior Growth Operations Manager

Senior Growth Operations Manager

Location: San Jose, CA or San Francisco, CA (Hybrid; minimum once per week, 2-3 days if preferred) Pay Range: $72 - $82/hr. Duration: 6 Months Top Skills: 6+ years of experience in Product Operations, Program Management, Business Operations, or adjacent roles; Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience influencing senior leadership; Proven ability to operate autonomously, manage ambiguity, and drive initiatives forward in fast-paced environments

Company: Our client is a global leader in creative software, offering innovative tools for digital media creation, design, and marketing.

About the Role

We are hiring a Temporary Senior Growth Operations Manager to provide coverage from August 2026 to February 2027 (7 months). This role will support fiscal year planning, quarterly platform requests prioritization, ongoing financial layer tracking and advancing specific projects (e.g., PAR process streamline).

Key Responsibilities

• Fiscal Year Planning
  • Support annual strategic planning cycles, including consolidating inputs, tracking assumptions, and maintaining planning artifacts
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across Growth, Strategy, and Operations to ensure alignment to organizational priorities
  • Manage timelines and deliverables to ensure teams are driving towards alignment on organizational priorities
  • Produce clear, leadership-ready summaries and documentation
• Quarterly Platform Requests Prioritization
  • Own the end-to-end coordination of quarterly priority planning submissions to the Unified Platform team
  • Manage timelines, intake requirements, dependencies, and stakeholder inputs, mapping submission back to critical priorities
• Financial Layer Tracking
  • Maintain the centralized financial layer tracker, gathering inputs from Growth and Strategy teams
  • Proactively identify risks, gaps, or misalignment and flag insights to leadership
• Operational Rigor & Stakeholder Management
  • Drive consistency, structure, and clear ownership across planning and financial workflows
  • Maintain strong documentation standards to ensure continuity during the coverage period
  • Enable leadership to make fast, informed decisions through clear data and summaries
• Additional Projects
  • Advancing specific projects, to be defined post-hire

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Product Operations, Program Management, or Business Operations adjacent roles
• Maturity to deal with ambiguity and agility to switch gears, strategic and tactical, according to organizational needs and dynamics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to senior audiences
• Strong people and collaboration skills, with the distinctive ability to influence across levels and teams
• Demonstrated excellence in proactively advancing initiatives forward by identifying logical next steps, stakeholders to be brought along and roadblocks to be overcome
• Proven ability to ramp quickly and operate autonomously in a temporary role

Why This Opportunity

• This is a high-impact contract role for a senior operator who enjoys bringing order to complexity. You'll step into a well-scoped role, own critical planning and financial processes, and partner closely with senior stakeholders during key business planning windows.

Benefits Summary: Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching. IND123