Creative Studio Manager
The Role'47 is looking for a Creative Studio Manager to lead the day-to-day operations of the creative department. You will create a clear view of priorities, capacity and project readiness across design, content and copy, helping the team deliver strong work on time. Working closely with creative leadership, Project Management and Production, you will anticipate issues, resolve workflow problems and make sure the team has what it needs to execute.
Key Responsibilities- Manage creative intake and confirm that requests have clear objectives, deliverables, channel requirements, inputs and decision-makers.
- Coordinate creative kickoffs and translate agreed project milestones into realistic internal work plans and review schedules.
- Maintain a current view of assignments, team capacity, freelance needs and competing priorities across design, content and copy.
- Recommend resource allocations and sequencing; bring clear trade-offs to leadership when demand exceeds capacity.
- Run regular studio check-ins to address workload, upcoming reviews, missing inputs and delivery risks.
- Coordinate creative reviews, ensure feedback is consolidated and track required approvals before final handoff.
- Partner with Project Management on overall schedules and cross-functional dependencies, and with Production on shoot-related milestones and inputs.
- Flag risks early with proposed solutions, assigned owners and clear next steps; follow through until issues are resolved.
- Confirm delivery readiness, including required versions, completed reviews, file organization and handoff information.
- Build practical processes, templates and working agreements that improve accountability and protect time for creative development.
Qualifications- 5+ years of experience in creative operations, studio management or resource management within a brand, agency or creative studio.
- Strong understanding of campaign development, design, content production and the path from brief to final delivery.
- Experience managing resources across multiple concurrent projects with different stakeholders and deadlines.
- Ability to assess capacity, negotiate priorities and communicate constraints constructively.
- Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, with a proactive approach to solving problems.
- Experience using project and resource management tools to maintain accurate, actionable information.
- Ability to build trust across creative, marketing, digital, e-commerce and production teams and improve process without unnecessary bureaucracy.
