Creative Operations Lead

Bring Order to Creativity. Keep Work Moving. Elevate Execution.

Are you the kind of person who thrives at the center of fast-moving creative work connecting people, processes, and priorities? As the Creative Operations Lead, you'll own the end-to-end execution of creative and pre-press workflows, ensuring projects move smoothly from intake through production.

In this role, you'll serve as the operational hub for Marketing, Creative, Pre-Press, and Manufacturing balancing timelines, assets, systems, and communication while continuously improving how work gets done.

What You'll Do

As a Creative Operations Lead, you will:

• Own creative workflow execution, managing projects from intake through final production release
• Serve as the central point of coordination, aligning Marketing, Creative, Pre-Press, and Production teams
• Plan and manage schedules, developing timelines, assigning work, and balancing workloads across teams
• Maintain project visibility, tracking status, priorities, deadlines, and deliverables across all stakeholders
• Lead status communication, facilitating weekly meetings and providing regular project reporting
• Coordinate pre-press operations, scheduling and tracking work from initiation through plate creation
• Ensure production readiness, reviewing job specs, color requirements, and required assets
• Manage internal and external pre-press timelines, including outsourced work and vendor coordination
• Create and release production work orders, supporting plate creation, overwrap workflows, and print readiness
• Administer digital asset and workflow systems, managing platforms such as Workamajig, Brandfolder, Smartsheet, and internal servers
• Maintain digital asset integrity, overseeing naming, tagging, metadata, versioning, and lifecycle management
• Support rights and usage tracking, collaborating on licenses, contracts, and artwork usage
• Drive process improvement, identifying and implementing workflow and system enhancements
• Support daily creative operations, ensuring all deliverables are completed accurately and on time

Why This Role Matters

Creative work only delivers value when it moves efficiently and accurately through the organization. This role ensures alignment, clarity, and execution across teams—reducing friction, improving speed to market, and enabling the Creative team to focus on high-quality, high-impact work that supports the business

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At Hoffmaster, we believe every person deserves to feel successful. That's why we provide a total rewards package designed to support our employee's success -at work, at home, and in life. This includes: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurances, Tuition and Student Loan repayment assistance, Physical and Mental wellness programs, Paid vacation and holidays, Employee Assistance Program, and more. Learn more about our Benefits at HoffmasterBenefits.com !

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.