Brand Operations Associate

Vee Friends is a modern entertainment and consumer products company built around characters, storytelling, collectibles, community, and culture. Spanning physical and digital collectibles, publishing, licensing, live experiences, commerce, and emerging consumer products, Vee Friends operates as a vertically integrated brand with a rapidly expanding ecosystem of products, partners, and channels.

As we continue to scale, operational excellence and cross-functional coordination are critical to ensuring our brand, product, creative, and commercial initiatives are planned, tracked, communicated, and executed at a high level

Vee Friends is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive Brand Operations Associate to support the execution of the company’s integrated product, brand, creative, and commercial initiatives.

This role will help keep projects, timelines, deliverables, approvals, and cross-functional workflows moving across the organization. Working closely with the Brand Operations lead and teams across Creative, Product Development, Supply Chain & Operations, Marketing, Sales & Demand Planning, and external partners, the Brand Operations Associate will play a key role in helping translate company priorities into clear action plans and organized day-to-day execution.

The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, natural organizer, and proactive problem-solver who thrives in a fast-moving entrepreneurial environment. This person should be comfortable managing details, following up with stakeholders, maintaining project management systems, and helping teams stay aligned against timelines and deliverables.

• Support the day-to-day management and maintenance of the company’s integrated Product and Brand calendar.
• Help track key milestones, launch dates, campaign timelines, retail programs, licensing initiatives, experiential moments, and other brand and commercial priorities.
• Assist in translating leadership priorities and project plans into actionable timelines, workflows, and task lists.
• Maintain visibility into project status, deadlines, dependencies, bottlenecks, and risks across departments.
• Help ensure cross-functional teams have clear visibility into upcoming launches, deliverables, and key dates.

• Support the Brand Operations function in coordinating work across:
• Creative
• Product Development
• Supply Chain & Operations
• Marketing
• Sales & Commercial teams
• External vendors and partners, particularly in Licensing and Collaborations
• Follow up with internal stakeholders to ensure timelines, deliverables, feedback, and approvals remain on track.
• Assist with preparing agendas, notes, recaps, and action items for recurring cross-functional meetings, launch readiness reviews, and project check-ins.
• Help maintain clear communication between teams so that priorities, ownership, timelines, and next steps are well understood.
• Support the development of scalable processes, operating cadences, and documentation that improve organizational efficiency.

• Maintain and update project management tools and workflow systems, including Click Up and related operational platforms.
• Ensure tasks, deadlines, owners, briefs, assets, and approvals are accurately reflected in internal systems.
• Help teams use project management tools consistently and effectively.
• Support dashboard updates, project trackers, SOPs, and internal documentation.
• Assist in identifying gaps in workflow, process, or system usage and elevate opportunities for improvement to the Brand Operations lead.

• Support the coordination and tracking of creative deliverables across in-house teams and external freelance partners.
• Help maintain visibility into creative assignments, deadlines, feedback rounds, and approval status.
• Assist with organizing and tracking a network of creative contractors and external service providers.
• Support the delivery of a wide range of creative outputs, from major product and packaging work to daily marketing, social, content, and direct-response deliverables.
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