Navy Manager, Photography Operations

About Old Navy

Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you're choosing a different path. From day one, we've been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season.

Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you're choosing a different path. From day one, we've been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season. We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since.

We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we're family.

The Manager, Photo Operations plays a key role within the Old Navy Online Operations team, overseeing daily in-season production of high-volume product photography and driving the execution of on-figure photography workflows. With a strategic mindset and operational rigor, this role ensures product photography is delivered on time, with quality and consistency across eCommerce platforms. The Manager collaborates cross functionally to align photo pipeline execution with evolving business priorities, troubleshoots workflow challenges, and drives process improvements to scale efficiency and customer impact.

The Manager translates business priorities from Merchandising, Marketing, and Online Experience into actionable photography plans-serving as a key decision-maker in pacing, sequencing, and troubleshooting to ensure shoot readiness aligns with strategic initiatives and financial goals.

• Owns day - to - day operations of the Product Photography On - Figure ( PPOF ) photo pipeline, ensuring product prioritization, set pace, and shot execution meet brand and business needs.
• Leads planning and scheduling of on-figure sets, partnering with Production, Creative, and Merchandising to align talent, timing, and readiness.
• Works closely with the Production team to book sets based on creative direction and product readiness.
• Manages the organization and prioritization of product for the Product Photography On Figure (PPOF).
• Oversees all reshoots, ensuring timely resolution and alignment with brand standards.
• Submits DA Fix forms for and images stuck in the pipeline to ensure prioritization and escalation where needed.
• Acts as the photo strategy point person for PPOF sets, partnering with cross - functional leads to determine the correct shots based on strategy.
• Maintains and updates the Shot Strategy Guide to reflect current brand direction, retiring outdated or irrelevant strategies as needed.
• Escalates blockers, updates set status and drives transparency with key stakeholders through regular check - ins and tracking.
• Provides critical input to Studio Leadership on production pacing and capacity planning, directly influencing budget allocation and resource utilization.
• Advises Sr. Manager and Studio Director on how production tempo and set volume correlate to cost efficiency and throughput. Partners with senior leaders to make data - informed recommendations onn productivity targets and seasonal readiness.

• Acts as the main liaison between Photo Operations and key partners including Online Experience, Merchandising, Catalog Operations, and Post Production.
• Leads operational alignment across teams to ensure photo and video assets are prioritized,…