We are looking for an experienced Operations Leader with a strong background in digital marketing agencies to oversee day-to-day operations, optimize workflows, manage production capacity, and ensure consistent, high-quality client delivery.
The ideal candidate has 3–5+ years of experience working within a digital marketing agency, with proven leadership experience across production, project management, operations, or client service. This role requires a strategic and data-driven leader who can translate company objectives into actionable operational plans, build scalable processes, manage multidisciplinary teams, and improve overall efficiency and profitability.
Previous experience working in a digital marketing agency is a MUST-HAVE requirement.
1. Strategic Planning & Execution
- Contribute operational insights and recommendations to support the company’s long-term strategy.
- Translate strategic objectives into clear, actionable plans for the operations and production teams.
- Establish priorities, timelines, and measurable outcomes aligned with company goals.
2. Day-to-Day Operations Management
- Oversee daily operations across departments to ensure smooth and efficient execution.
- Monitor operational performance and ensure teams consistently meet established targets.
- Identify and resolve operational challenges, bottlenecks, and workflow issues.
- Manage resources, workloads, capacity, and priorities to maximize efficiency and productivity.
3. Process Optimization & Efficiency
- Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and redundancies across operational workflows.
- Design and implement solutions that improve productivity, reduce errors, and control costs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline processes and improve coordination.
- Lead the adoption of technology, automation, AI tools, and operational systems that improve efficiency and reporting.
- Develop and maintain standardized processes, SOPs, workflows, and operational guidelines.
- Establish scalable systems that support consistent service delivery as the company grows.
- Regularly review and improve processes based on business needs, performance data, and industry best practices.
- Ensure team members are properly trained and consistently follow established processes.
5. Production & Client Delivery
- Oversee production teams and workflows to ensure projects are completed on time and according to client requirements.
- Monitor project timelines, workloads, deliverables, and quality standards.
- Establish quality-control procedures to minimize errors, delays, and rework.
- Work closely with client-facing teams to address operational issues affecting client satisfaction.
- Ensure production output consistently meets or exceeds client expectations.
- Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing operations and production teams.
- Manage team capacity, workload distribution, utilization, and accountability.
- Establish clear performance expectations and measurable goals.
- Provide regular coaching, feedback, and performance guidance.
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and results-oriented culture.
- Support recruitment and onboarding of operational and production team members.
7. Performance Management & Reporting
- Establish and monitor operational KPIs and performance metrics.
- Analyze productivity, utilization, capacity, quality, turnaround times, and profitability.
- Prepare regular operational reports for the executive leadership team.
- Identify trends, performance gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
- Use data-driven insights to support operational and strategic decision-making.
- Identify operational risks that may affect productivity, quality, profitability, or client satisfaction.
- Develop and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Ensure operational activities comply with company policies, contractual requirements, and applicable regulations.
- Establish appropriate quality, security, and operational controls.
9. Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with leadership across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Client Success, and Production to align operational priorities with company objectives.
- Ensure company initiatives are properly planned, resourced, and executed.
- Act as a central point of coordination for operational priorities and cross-functional projects.
10. Budget & Cost Management
- Develop and manage operational budgets in alignment with company financial objectives.
- Monitor labor costs, resource utilization, and departmental expenses.
- Identify opportunities to improve margins and operational profitability.
- Optimize resource allocation while maintaining service quality and client satisfaction.
- Build a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and innovation.
- Regularly evaluate operational performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Stay current with digital marketing industry trends, emerging technologies, AI, and automation.
- Evaluate and implement tools and systems that improve productivity, scalability, and operational visibility.
Requirements
- Strategic & Operational Leadership – Ability to translate company objectives into clear operational priorities, workflows, and measurable results.
- Team & Resource Management – Strong ability to manage multidisciplinary teams, capacity, workloads, utilization, deadlines, and accountability.
- Process & Quality Management – Proven ability to build scalable workflows, improve efficiency, reduce errors, and maintain consistent quality.
- Project & Production Management – Strong understanding of project planning, production schedules, resource allocation, and client delivery.
- Data-Driven Decision Making – Ability to analyze KPIs, operational data, financial metrics, and performance trends to drive decisions.
- Financial & Commercial Awareness – Understanding of budgets, labor costs, utilization, margins, and production profitability.
- Communication & Collaboration – Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across departments and leadership teams.
- Problem-Solving – Strong analytical skills and the ability to proactively identify and resolve operational challenges.
- Technology & Automation – Comfortable adopting project-management platforms, reporting systems, AI tools, automation, and digital workflows.