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Shopify’s Brand Design Studio is seeking two Creative Operations Leads to build and run the systems that make our creative engine fast, scalable, and effective. You will own portfolio planning and execution for large campaigns across the whole group, oversee high-priority programs, and systematize the operating model that lets our team deliver quality and volume at once.
Job Responsibility:
Portfolio planning and prioritization
Co-lead quarterly and annual planning for across the group
define prioritization criteria, align on OKRs, and create a transparent roadmap tied to budget
Program management for high-impact campaigns
Own workback plans, dependencies, milestones, and approvals for flagship launches and evergreen performance programs
allocate designers, writers, and motion/creative tech resources to priority work, create a bench of production vendors that can be actioned at any moment
Stand up and manage an external vendor/agency bench for scalable, repeatable production
drive SOWs, rate cards, SLAs, and performance reviews
Process, governance, and quality
Define operating model, RACI, and playbooks for concepting, production, QA, localization, and launch
Relentless pursue of systems of scale and accountability for both big and small projects
Production at scale
Led Implementation of systems for modular creative (templates, toolkits, design tokens), dynamic and feed-based production, and localization at scale
Contribute to optimize a DAM and taxonomy for asset versioning, rights, and reuse across channels and markets
Measurement and continuous improvement
Define and report Ops KPIs: cycle time, on-time delivery, cost per asset, reuse rate, defect/QA rate, stakeholder satisfaction, % automated
Lead postmortems and quarterly business reviews
turn insights into process and tooling improvements
Stakeholder engagement and change management
Influence senior leaders across Growth, Revenue, Product Marketing, and Design
make trade-offs explicit and secure alignment on priorities
Stay ahead of all changes, needs and opportunities for better alignment and pivots where needed
Requirements:
8+ years in creative/design/marketing operations
4+ years program managing large, integrated campaigns
Proven experience scaling creative production for paid social, display/video, search, affiliates, email/CRM, and web/landing pages, including experimentation and personalization
Demonstrated portfolio management: roadmapping, OKRs, budget and vendor management, capacity planning, and scenario modeling
Track record building intake, triage, and prioritization systems with clear SLAs, brief standards, and governance
Tools expertise: Project/portfolio: GitHub and Appsheet
Design/production: Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud
Asset management: Bynder
Reporting: Looker, Tableau, or equivalent
AI and automation: Hands-on deploying generative and production AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Midjourney/Firefly, Runway, Figma plugins) to reduce manual work and increase output, with governance and measurement