Creative Operations Specialist — Studio & DAM

Lifted, an Upwork Company™; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company, is building a talent pool of experienced creatives for potential full-time or part-time engagements with enterprise partners. The role focuses on managing creative intake, scoping, resourcing, and end-to-end workflows while coordinating across cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery and quality results.

Candidates should have a background in Creative Project Management or Studio Management, with strong skills in timelines, asset routing, and stakeholder

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating creative intake, scoping, scheduling, resourcing and end-to-end workflow.
• Ability to track timelines and deliverables across cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of asset routing, reviews and version control workflow.

Responsibilities

• Manage creative intake, scoping, scheduling, resourcing, and end-to-end workflow.
• Track timelines and deliverables across cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate reviews, feedback cycles, and asset routing.
• Communicate project status, risks, and alignment updates.
• Optimize workflow tools and processes.
• Oversee daily studio operations, traffic management, and creative routing.
• Manage team capacity, assignments, and SLAs.
• Ensure proper file handling, naming conventions, and version control.
• Partner with Creative Ops Lead on resourcing and process improvements.
• Maintain studio documentation, logs, tools, and systems.
• Manage digital asset ingestion, tagging, metadata, permissions, and delivery.
• Maintain asset libraries, DAM structure, governance, and archival systems.
• Support creative teams with asset access, rights, and retrieval.
• Ensure compliance with usage rights, licensing, legal requirements.
• Optimize DAM workflows and taxonomy.

Skills

Creative project management

Timeline tracking

Cross-functional coordination

Asset management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Background in Creative Project Management or Studio Management

Job description

Lifted, an Upwork Company, is building a talent pool of experienced creatives for potential full-time or part-time engagements with enterprise partners. The role focuses on managing creative intake, scoping, resourcing, and end-to-end workflows while coordinating across cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery and quality results.

Candidates should have a background in Creative Project Management or Studio Management, with strong skills in timelines, asset routing, and stakeholder