Creative Operations Studio Lead

Lifted, an Upwork Company™; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lifted is building a talent pool of experienced Creative Operations professionals for engagements with enterprise partners. Selected candidates may be matched to future full or part-time employment opportunities based on experience and project needs.

Role involves managing intake, scoping, scheduling, resourcing, and day-to-day studio operations across cross-functional teams, ensuring deliverables, asset integrity, and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience managing creative workflow, timelines, resource needs, and studio operations.
• Ability to track milestones, deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Strong coordination of reviews, feedback cycles, and asset routing.
• Excellent communication of project status, risks, and alignment updates.
• Knowledge of digital asset management and archival practices.

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 DAM 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, and legal requirements.
• Optimize DAM workflows and taxonomy.

Skills

Creative workflow

Timeline tracking

Asset routing

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder communication

DAM management

Asset tagging and metadata

Governance & archival

Resourcing & SLAs

Studio operations management

Tools

DAM software

Asset management tools

Job description

Lifted is building a talent pool of experienced Creative Operations professionals for engagements with enterprise partners. Selected candidates may be matched to future full or part-time employment opportunities based on experience and project needs.

Role involves managing intake, scoping, scheduling, resourcing, and day-to-day studio operations across cross-functional teams, ensuring deliverables, asset integrity, and compliance.