Sr. Manager, Creative Operations

Knix; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Knix in Toronto, Ontario is seeking a Senior Manager, Creative Operations to serve as the operational backbone of our in-house Creative Team across Knix, KT, and MNTD. You will own brief intake, prioritize work with the CMO and creative leadership, and translate business priorities into clear workflows, timelines, and resource plans.

You will supervise the team, manage budgets and partners, streamline systems, and drive go-to-market processes to ensure timely, high-quality creative output that

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience in Creative Operations, Marketing Operations, Traffic Management, Integrated Production, or Creative Project Management, with 1–2+ years of direct people management experience.
• Demonstrated track record of managing complex, integrated marketing programs across multiple brands, business units, or concurrent workstreams.
• Experience delivering 360 integrated marketing campaigns across digital, social, retail, print, eCommerce, video, and brand channels.
• Strong experience building campaign workbacks, production schedules, resource plans, and cross-functional workflows from brief through launch.
• Experience partnering with senior marketing and creative leaders to prioritize work and translate shifting business priorities into executable plans.
• Hands‑on experience building and maintaining workflows in project management platforms such as Asana, Monday.com, Jira, or similar tools.
• Demonstrated ability to improve or implement operational systems, tools, processes, and ways of working within a fast‑moving creative organization.
• Strong judgment and resourcefulness, with the ability to solve competing priorities, compressed timelines, and capacity constraints without becoming a blocker to the work.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills with the ability to create clarity across multiple stakeholders and teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the intake and management of creative briefs across Knix, KT, and MNTD.
• Partner with CMO and creative leadership to prioritize work based on business needs.
• Translate incoming briefs into clear project plans, workflows, milestones, owners, dependencies, and schedules.
• Drive go-to-market processes with cross-functional teams to align launch dates with market needs.
• Maintain visibility across launches, campaigns, and ongoing initiatives; identify risks early.
• Own creative budget tracking and resource planning across Knix, KT, MNTD.
• Oversee team workload and capacity; route work effectively to meet deadlines.
• continually assess systems and tools to improve speed, visibility, collaboration, and scalability.
• Review briefs for clarity on objectives, scope, audiences, and channels.
• Create clear project status visibility for stakeholders and teams.
• Supervise, mentor, and support direct reports within Creative Operations.

Skills

Creative Operations

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Campaign planning

Asana / Monday.com / Jira

Budget management

Tools

Asana / Monday.com / Jira

Job description

Knix is an award-winning intimate apparel and activewear brand that is re-inventing intimates for real life. Through our innovative products and our engaged community, we are empowering people everywhere to be unapologetically free. Launched in 2013, we are one of the fastest-growing intimate apparel brands in North America and are globally recognized as an innovator within the apparel space. We reach over 3 million customers through our online stores, Knix retail locations across North America and channels such as wholesale and Amazon. We are revolutionizing the apparel industry with our best-in-class customer experience, innovative products and brands Knix, Kt by Knix, and Mntd. Come join us if you are looking for a purpose-driven and authentic career!

Reporting to the Senior Director of Creative & Content, the Senior Manager, Creative Operations will be the operational backbone of our in-house Creative Team, supporting work across Knix, KT, and MNTD. Sitting at the center of how work moves through the organization, this person will own the intake of incoming briefs, partner closely with the CMO and creative leadership to prioritize work, and translate business priorities into clear workflows, workback schedules, resourcing plans, and actionable timelines. They will manage day-to-day creative operations, guide team members, and help drive the broader go-to-market process by keeping teams aligned around key milestones, dependencies, deadlines, and execution. The ideal candidate is an execution-minded, highly resourceful operator who can manage complexity, solve creatively for capacity, and continually evolve the systems that help the team move faster and deliver strong work to market at the right time and at the right standard.

The Opportunity:

• Creative Brief Intake & Prioritization: Own the intake and management of creative briefs across Knix, KT, and MNTD. Partner closely with the CMO and creative leadership to prioritize work based on business needs, timing, impact, and available resources.

• Workflow & Workback Development: Translate incoming briefs into clear project plans, workflows, milestones, owners, dependencies, and workback schedules that guide the Creative Team from kickoff through final delivery.

• Go-to-Market Leadership: Help drive the overall GTM process, partnering across Marketing, Creative, eCommerce, Retail, Social, and other cross-functional teams to ensure key deliverables are progressing against launch dates and market needs.

• Timeline & Execution Oversight: Maintain visibility across major launches, campaigns, and ongoing initiatives. Identify risks early, resolve dependencies, and keep teams aligned and accountable to the decisions and deadlines required to get work into market successfully.

• Budget & Resource Management: Own creative budget tracking and resource planning across Knix, KT, and MNTD, ensuring internal teams, freelancers, agencies, and external partners are deployed thoughtfully against business priorities. Proactively identify capacity or budget constraints and develop solutions that keep work moving while maintaining quality and timelines.

• Capacity & Traffic Management: Oversee team workload and bandwidth across multiple concurrent workstreams. Route work effectively and creatively solve for capacity constraints, whether through internal resources, freelancers, external partners, or alternative approaches to execution.

• Systems & Process Innovation: Continually assess how the team works and introduce new systems, tools, processes, templates, automation, and ways of working that improve speed, visibility, collaboration, and scalability.

• Problem Solving & Resourcefulness: Act as a facilitator of the work rather than a gatekeeper. When challenges arise, identify solutions and alternative paths that allow the organization to keep moving while protecting creative quality and the highest business priorities.

• Brief Quality & Readiness: Review cross-functional briefs to ensure objectives, scope, deliverables, audiences, channel requirements, and decision-makers are clear before work begins. Partner with brief owners to close gaps and create clarity without unnecessarily slowing down the work.

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Create clear visibility into project status, upcoming milestones, decisions, and risks so Creative and its partners understand what is happening, what is needed, and what comes next.

• People Leadership: Supervise, mentor, and support direct reports within Creative Operations, managing performance, day-to-day priorities, and professional growth.

Qualifications:

• 6–8 years of experience in Creative Operations, Marketing Operations, Traffic Management, Integrated Production, or Creative Project Management, with 1–2+ years of direct people management experience.

• Demonstrated track record of managing complex, integrated marketing programs across multiple brands, business units, or concurrent workstreams.

• Experience delivering 360 integrated marketing campaigns across digital, social, retail, print, eCommerce, video, and brand channels.

• Strong experience building campaign workbacks, production schedules, resource plans, and cross-functional workflows from brief through launch.

• Experience partnering with senior marketing and creative leaders to prioritize work and translate shifting business priorities into executable plans.

• Hands‑on experience building and maintaining workflows in project management platforms such as Asana, Monday.com, Jira, or similar tools.

• Demonstrated ability to improve or implement operational systems, tools, processes, and ways of working within a fast‑moving creative organization.

• Strong judgment and resourcefulness, with the ability to solve competing priorities, compressed timelines, and capacity constraints without becoming a blocker to the work.

• Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills with the ability to create clarity across multiple stakeholders and teams.

Compensation & Care

Transparency is at the heart of everything we do, including how we pay. The posted expected hourly rate for this role represents candidates developing new skills within the position. Increased rates represent those who are more proficient or have achieved mastery and deep institutional knowledge over time.

Rewards are not just about your regular pay and monthly bonuses. We believe rewards should support your whole life, not just your shift. That's why forpermanent full-time employees, we cover 100% of the premiums for extended health and dental plans from your first day. You'll also gain access to mental health support through our Employee Assistance Programs through our partners at Dialogue who provide virtual coaching, therapy, and counseling.

When your family grows, we're there for you. Our Paid Parental Leave plan tops up salary to 80% for eligible permanent, full-time employees. We also invest in your future with a RRSP matching program for permanent full-time team members. Plus, you'll enjoy a 50% discount on Knix products because we want you to love what you sell.

AI Disclosure Statement

We want to share that we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications. While technology helps us stay organized, every hiring decision at Knix is made by real people who care about finding the best addition to our team. We use these tools to support our process, not to replace the human connection that makes our culture special.

How we Hire

Our people are what make Knix, Knix! Our people are passionate and have a strong belief in our mission. Our people are naturally curious and ambitious by nature. Employees feel respected and supported at Knix. We take an inclusive and equitable approach offering the same interview experience to every candidate we meet with. Knix is an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate everyone and their intersecting identities. We know and believe that diverse and inclusive teams empower us to make better decisions and inspire innovation so that we can better serve our customers and community. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please don't hesitate to reach out! We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply.