Creative Operations Manager

About Stio Stio® is an omni‑channel mountain brand that designs, develops and sells beautiful, functional, and innovative apparel, footwear and accessories inspired by mountain life. With headquarters in Jackson, Wyoming, Stio offers products via Stio.com, catalog, B2B and its Mountain Studio® retail locations. Responsibilities Project & Traffic Management Own the creative team’s full project pipeline from brief intake through final delivery. Manage priorities, timelines, stakeholder alignment, and bandwidth across every workstream. Build and maintain detailed work‑back calendars for seasonal campaigns, product launches, channel executions, and evergreen creative needs. Coordinate project kick‑offs, weekly check‑ins, and milestone reviews with clear agendas and action‑oriented follow‑ups. Track and communicate project status and key deadlines to creative leadership, surface roadblocks early and help resolve them. Ensure creative production timelines ladder up correctly to seasonal launch dates. Process & Operations Maintain and continuously improve Stio’s creative workflow systems, including Asana project architecture, intake processes, and team operating rhythms. Establish and enforce consistent brief standards to reduce revision cycles. Lead creative capacity planning and advocate for the team’s bandwidth. Identify process inefficiencies and implement solutions to bring structure and consistency to work flow. Promote and champion adoption of AI tools across the creative team to streamline production and improve output quality. Asset & Resource Management Own the Digital Asset Management platform (Bynder) and oversee asset organization, taxonomy, naming conventions, metadata, folder architecture, and asset lifecycle management. Ensure seasonal creative assets are properly organized, tagged, and accessible to cross‑functional stakeholders in a timely manner. Co‑manage relationships with external freelancers, photographers, and vendors, including contracts, timelines and deliverables. Track and process vendor and freelancer invoices accurately and on time. Strategic Support Partner with the Associate Creative Director on seasonal planning, resource allocation, and team capacity strategy. Contribute to post‑project retrospectives and lessons‑learned sessions, translating insights into process improvements. Provide a data‑informed perspective on creative operations, tracking on‑time delivery rates, revision cycles and team throughput. Support onboarding of new creative team members and partners into Stio’s tools, workflows and operating standards. Qualifications 3+ years of experience managing creative or marketing workflows, ideally in‑house creative teams, brands or agency environments. Demonstrated track record of building and maintaining project management systems. Proficiency in Asana or similar tools, with experience designing project architecture, templates and workflows from scratch. Hands‑on experience with a Digital Asset Management platform (Bynder strongly preferred). Fluency with AI tools and an active curiosity about how they can improve creative production workflows. Strong brief‑writing instincts and a willingness to push back when briefs are unclear. Excellent communication skills, translating strategy into process and action across creative and non‑creative stakeholders. Highly organized, solutions‑oriented and calm under pressure; able to hold the team accountable without micromanagement. Experience with consumer‑facing apparel, outdoor, lifestyle or adjacent brands preferred. Affinity for mountain lifestyle and commitment to Stio’s values. Benefits Base salary: $65,000‑$75,000 (negotiated based on experience, skills and qualifications). Medical, Dental and Vision plans. Company‑paid Long Term Disability. Employee Assistance Programs. 401(k) with company match. Generous paid time off policies. Gear testing, perks and more. Stio is an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals, including minorities, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, veterans and individuals with disabilities. #J-18808-Ljbffr