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Stio®

Creative Operations Manager

Roles

Compensation

USD 65000 - 75000

Base salary range $65,000-$75,000. Medical, Dental, Vision plans; Company Paid Long Term Disability; Employee Assistance Programs; 401k with match; Generous paid time off policies; Gear test/perks; competitive compensation packages including base pay, incentives and benefits.

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Denver, Colorado, United States (location provided)
  • Medical plans
  • Dental plans
  • Vision plans
  • Company Paid Long Term Disability
  • Employee Assistance Programs
  • 401k with match
  • Generous paid time off policies
  • Gear test
  • Perks

Tech stack

AsanaBynderAdobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorGolang
AI tools

Location

Denver, Colorado, United States

Work setup

Full-time
Senior
Remote (Source: Remote OK; Work arrangement: Remote). Must be able to work in a stationary position 75% of the work day.
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Role details

  • Own the creative team's full project pipeline from brief intake through final delivery
  • Manage priorities, timelines, and stakeholder alignment across every workstream
  • Build and maintain detailed workback calendars across seasonal campaigns, product launches, channel executions, and evergreen creative needs
  • Serve as the primary coordination point between Creative and cross-functional partners including Brand Marketing, Digital, E-commerce, Retail and Product
  • Facilitate project kick-offs, weekly check-ins, and milestone reviews with clear agendas and action-oriented follow-ups
  • Track and communicate project status, team bandwidth, and key deadlines to creative leadership; surface roadblocks early and help resolve them
  • Partner with the go-to-market team to ensure creative production timelines ladder up correctly to seasonal launch dates
  • Own, 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, ensuring clarity and completeness before work begins
  • Lead creative capacity planning and balance workload across the team
  • Identify process inefficiencies and implement solutions that bring structure and consistency to how work moves through the creative function
  • Champion adoption of AI tools across the creative team
  • Own Stio's Digital Asset Management platform (Bynder) including asset organization, taxonomy, standards, and team adoption
  • Establish and maintain DAM governance: naming conventions, metadata standards, folder architecture, and asset lifecycle management
  • Ensure seasonal creative assets are properly organized, tagged, and accessible to cross-functional stakeholders and channel teams
  • Co-manage relationships with external freelancers, photographers, and creative vendors coordinating contracts, timelines, and deliverables
  • Track and process vendor and freelancer invoices accurately and on time
  • Partner with the Associate Creative Director on seasonal planning, resource allocation, and team capacity strategy
  • Contribute to post-project retrospectives and lessons-learned sessions
  • Track on-time delivery rates, revision cycles, and team throughput to inform continuous improvement
  • Support onboarding of new creative team members and partners into Stio's tools, workflows, and operating standards
  • 3+ years of experience managing creative or marketing workflows, ideally within an in-house creative team, brand, or agency environment
  • Proven track record of building and maintaining project management systems
  • Proficient in Asana or similar; experienced in building project architecture, templates, and team workflows
  • Hands-on experience with a Digital Asset Management platform (Bynder strongly preferred) and owning DAM governance
  • Fluent with AI tools and actively curious about how they can improve creative production workflows
  • Strong brief-writing instincts and ability to push back when briefs are not clear enough
  • Clear, confident communicator who can translate strategy into process and process into action across stakeholders
  • Highly organized, solutions-oriented, and calm under pressure
  • Comfortable holding the team accountable without micromanaging
  • Experience working with consumer-facing brands in apparel, outdoor, lifestyle, or adjacent categories preferred
  • Genuine affinity for mountain lifestyle and the values that drive the Stio brand
  • Commitment to company mission, vision, and values
  • Must be able to work in a stationary position 75% of the work day

Application

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Company context

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Omni-channel mountain brand apparel, footwear and accessories
Apparel and outdoor/lifestyle brand
Jackson, Wyoming

Description

About Us Stio® is an omni-channel mountain brand that designs, develops and sells apparel, footwear and other accessories infused with the soul of the mountain lifestyle. With headquarters in Jackson, Wyoming, Stio draws inspiration from the surrounding Teton Range and offers product via Stio.com, catalog, B2B and its Mountain Studio® retail locations. YOUR ROLE The Creative Operations Manager is the organizational engine behind Stio's creative function, making sure great work gets made efficiently, consistently, and on time. This role owns the systems, workflows, and processes that keep the creative team running at full capacity across every season, channel, and workstream. Reporting to the Associate Creative Director, you will partner closely with Brand, Performance, E-commerce, Retail and Product teams to manage the full creative project pipeline, maintain asset and resource workflows, and ensure Stio's growing library of creative assets is organized, accessible, and channel-ready. Your Responsibilities Project & Traffic Management - Own the creative team's full project pipeline from brief intake through final delivery. - Manage priorities, timelines, and stakeholder alignment across every workstream. - Build and maintain detailed workback calendars across seasonal campaigns, product launches, channel executions, and evergreen creative needs. - Serve as the primary coordination point between Creative and cross-functional partners (Brand Marketing, Digital, E-commerce, Retail, Product). - Facilitate project kick-offs, weekly check-ins, and milestone reviews with clear agendas and action-oriented follow-ups. - Track and communicate project status, team bandwidth, and key deadlines; surface roadblocks early and help resolve them. - Partner with the go-to-market team to ensure creative production timelines ladder up correctly to seasonal launch dates. Process & Operations - Own, 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. - Lead creative capacity planning. - Identify process inefficiencies and implement solutions for structure and consistency. - Champion adoption of AI tools across the creative team to streamline production and automate repeatable tasks. Asset & Resource Management - Own Stio's Digital Asset Management platform (Bynder): asset organization, taxonomy, standards, and team adoption. - Establish and maintain DAM governance (naming conventions, metadata standards, folder architecture, asset lifecycle management). - Ensure seasonal creative assets are properly organized, tagged, and accessible to stakeholders and channel teams. - Co-manage relationships with external freelancers, photographers, and creative vendors (contracts, timelines, 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. - Bring a data-informed perspective to creative operations (on-time delivery rates, revision cycles, throughput) for continuous improvement. - Support onboarding of new creative team members and partners into Stio's tools, workflows, and operating standards.

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