About this role
The Ideal Candidate:
You will be an already well established Studio Manager in a digital business (online trading would be perfect), that can balance the hyper-organised discipline of an air traffic controller with the high-stress resilience of a floor trader. You do not need to be a designer, but you must be deeply fluent in the language of creative production and digital marketing.
You will be thick-skinned and unflappable: You stay calm when market volatility forces marketing teams to scrap a two-week campaign strategy in a single morning.
Process-obsessed but flexible: You love clear workflows, but you adapt instantly when regulatory shifts or breaking news break the standard protocol.
You respect the creative process but are driven by performance metrics like turnaround times, capacity percentages, and creative asset conversion rates. You ultimately are focussed on being part of the organisations to drive revenue and profit growth. You have a can-do attitude and can managing the demands of internal stakeholders to set reality checks on what can be delivered by when and what are the imperative priorities.
What You Will Be Doing:
Workflow and Marketing Initiative Management
Manage intake: Review, scope, and approve incoming creative briefs from internal stakeholders.
Assign resources: Allocate marketing initiatives to designers, writers, and multimedia creators based on availability and skill sets - in partnership with the VP Creative Services.
Build timelines: Develop project schedules, set milestones, and establish firm delivery deadlines.
Track progress: Monitor daily task completion, identify bottlenecks, and reallocate resources to keep projects on schedule.
Facilitate reviews: Coordinate feedback loops and approval stages between creatives and stakeholders.
Agile Campaign Management
Execute rapid-response workflows: Build fast-track processes for market-sensitive content (e.g., breaking economic news, Fed rate decisions, sudden market volatility).
Coordinate localisation: Oversee the translation and cultural adaptation of marketing campaigns across multiple global jurisdictions.
Manage high-volume funnels: Track deliverables for continuous A/B testing, including landing pages, paid social ads, performance marketing banners, and app store graphics.
Synchronise multi-channel launches: Align creative timelines with product updates, platform feature rollouts, and new asset class introduction
Team and Capacity Operations
Assess capacity: Forecast team workload to prevent burnout and flag when external freelance support is needed.
Run standups: Lead daily or weekly status meetings to align the team on immediate priorities.
Optimise tools: Manage project management software (e.g. Jira) and collaboration tools.
Regulatory Compliance & Quality Control
Enforce legal compliance: Embed mandatory compliance review loops into the production lifecycle to ensure all designs and copy include required risk warnings.
Audit brand consistency: Guard brand standards across diverse formats, ensuring educational webinars, market analysis videos, and affiliate partner banners look cohesive.
Standardise legal updates: Update global footers, terms, and risk disclosures across all active creative templates simultaneously when regulations change..
Manage digital assets: Oversee the organization, file-naming conventions, and storage of assets in the DAM (Digital Asset Management) system.
Oversee production: Coordinate with external vendors for overflow delivery
Stakeholder Communication
Manage expectations: Serve as the primary point of contact for internal clients regarding project status and timelines.
Resolve conflicts: Negotiate competing priorities when multiple departments request creative resources simultaneously.
Report metrics: Track and report on team velocity, project volume, and resource utilisation to leadership.
Experience in fast-paced digital, performance, or ad agencies where quick pivots and high volume are normal.
Experience managing pipelines for performance marketing, content marketing, affiliates . IBs, CRM, web / appstores
Experience coordinating video production and motion graphics pipelines for YouTube ads, market analysis updates, and educational webinars.
Experience managing translation workflows and asset adaptation for multiple regions, languages, and cultural nuances simultaneously.
Experience mapping team capacity, forecasting resource shortages, and managing a monthly budget for freelance talent.
Experience embedding compliance and legal checkpoints directly into the creative production lifecycle to prevent unauthorized content from going live.
Experience in technology solutions for project and creative asset management (ie Jira, DAM)