Brand Operations Leader: Governance & Scalable Systems

Aquent; Menlo Park (CA); Remote; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent is partnering with a leading global technology company to find a Brand Marketing Manager focused on brand operations, governance, and scalable brand systems. This is not a traditional campaign marketing role.

We are looking for someone who can bring structure to complex brand work across a large, global organization by managing intake, improving workflows, supporting brand governance, and helping teams consistently apply brand strategy.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in brand management or brand operations.
• Strong project or program management in a large organization.
• Experience managing intake processes and brand governance.
• Ability to build scalable processes, not just execute.
• Cross-functional experience with Brand, Creative, Marketing, Legal, Product.
• Strong analytics to identify trends and improvements.
• Independent in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Support a centralized brand intake and governance process, helping prioritize, route, and track high-priority brand requests.
• Partner with Brand, Marketing, Creative, Legal, and agency stakeholders to keep work aligned and moving efficiently.
• Develop and improve scalable workflows, processes, tools, and guidance that help teams apply brand strategy consistently.
• Facilitate communication and alignment with brand leaders across a highly matrixed organization.
• Oversee tools, resources, and training that improve brand understanding and adoption.
• Analyze brand intake data to identify trends, recurring needs, and opportunities to improve processes.
• Develop recommendations, documentation, and scaled guidance that reduce repeat questions and improve efficiency.
• Support governance of a centralized brand classification database in partnership with Marketing Legal.

Skills

Brand management

Brand operations

Marketing operations

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Tools

Adobe Workfront

Airtable

Asana

Wrike

Jira

Job description

Aquent is partnering with a leading global technology company to find a Brand Marketing Manager focused on brand operations, governance, and scalable brand systems. This is not a traditional campaign marketing role.

We are looking for someone who can bring structure to complex brand work across a large, global organization by managing intake, improving workflows, supporting brand governance, and helping teams consistently apply brand strategy.