Creative Operations Lead — Brand Campaigns & Shoots

Perplexity; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity in New York, NY seeks a Creative Operations Manager to serve as the operational backbone for its fast-scaling creative team. You’ll coordinate brand campaigns, GTM launches, shoots, and partnerships, ensuring smooth production while creatives stay focused on the work.

You’ll bridge creative vision and execution, managing timelines, licenses, and contracts, and partnering with Brand, Motion, Web, and Comms. The role emphasizes enabling great creative work and efficient processes.

Qualifications

• Experience as a producer on an in-house creative or brand team.
• Ability to coordinate projects across multiple teams to meet timelines and budgets.
• Hands-on experience managing vendors, contractors, and agencies, including negotiations.
• Experience organizing photo/video shoots and handling logistics, licensing, and releases.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate creative projects across multiple teams — owning scopes, timelines, budgets, and delivery.
• Be the single point of contact for cross-functional partners and ensure requests are triaged and delivered on time.
• Source and manage vendors, contractors, freelancers, and agencies; negotiate and maintain relationships.
• Organize and run shoots end-to-end: casting, location scouting, scheduling, crewing, on-set logistics.
• Own licenses, contracts, releases, and rights management; keep team compliant.

Skills

Project coordination

Vendor management

Contract negotiation

Shoots organization

Licensing & rights

Production workflow

Cross-functional collaboration

Adobe Creative Suite

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Perplexity in New York, NY seeks a Creative Operations Manager to serve as the operational backbone for its fast-scaling creative team. You’ll coordinate brand campaigns, GTM launches, shoots, and partnerships, ensuring smooth production while creatives stay focused on the work.

You’ll bridge creative vision and execution, managing timelines, licenses, and contracts, and partnering with Brand, Motion, Web, and Comms. The role emphasizes enabling great creative work and efficient processes.