Creative Operations Manager

About Stio

Stio® is an omni‑channel mountain brand that designs, develops and sells beautiful, functional, and innovative apparel, footwear and accessories inspired by mountain life. With headquarters in Jackson, Wyoming, Stio offers products via , catalog, B2B and its Mountain Studio® retail locations.

• Project & Traffic Management
  • Own the creative team’s full project pipeline from brief intake through final delivery.
  • Manage priorities, timelines, stakeholder alignment, and bandwidth across every workstream.
  • Build and maintain detailed work‑back calendars for seasonal campaigns, product launches, channel executions, and evergreen creative needs.
  • Coordinate project kick‑offs, weekly check‑ins, and milestone reviews with clear agendas and action‑oriented follow‑ups.
  • Track and communicate project status and key deadlines to creative leadership, surface roadblocks early and help resolve them.
  • Ensure creative production timelines ladder up correctly to seasonal launch dates.
• Process & Operations
  • 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 to reduce revision cycles.
  • Lead creative capacity planning and advocate for the team’s bandwidth.
  • Identify process inefficiencies and implement solutions to bring structure and consistency to work flow.
  • Promote and champion adoption of AI tools across the creative team to streamline production and improve output quality.
• Asset & Resource Management
  • Own the Digital Asset Management platform (Bynder) and oversee asset organization, taxonomy, naming conventions, metadata, folder architecture, and asset lifecycle management.
  • Ensure seasonal creative assets are properly organized, tagged, and accessible to cross‑functional stakeholders in a timely manner.
  • Co‑manage relationships with external freelancers, photographers, and vendors, including contracts, timelines and 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, translating insights into process improvements.
  • Provide a data‑informed perspective on creative operations, tracking on‑time delivery rates, revision cycles and team throughput.
  • 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 in‑house creative teams, brands or agency environments.
• Demonstrated track record of building and maintaining project management systems.
• Proficiency in Asana or similar tools, with experience designing project architecture, templates and workflows from scratch.
• Hands‑on experience with a Digital Asset Management platform (Bynder strongly preferred).
• Fluency with AI tools and an active curiosity about how they can improve creative production workflows.
• Strong brief‑writing instincts and a willingness to push back when briefs are unclear.
• Excellent communication skills, translating strategy into process and action across creative and non‑creative stakeholders.
• Highly organized, solutions‑oriented and calm under pressure; able to hold the team accountable without micromanagement.
• Experience with consumer‑facing apparel, outdoor, lifestyle or adjacent brands preferred.
• Affinity for mountain lifestyle and commitment to Stio’s values.

• Base salary: $65,000‑$75,000 (negotiated based on experience, skills and qualifications).
• Medical, Dental and Vision plans.
• Company‑paid Long Term Disability.
• Employee Assistance Programs.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Generous paid time off policies.
• Gear testing, perks and more.

Stio is an equal opportunity employer of all qualified individuals, including minorities, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, veterans and individuals with disabilities.