Hybrid Creative Operations Lead: Streamline & Deliver

Mighty Media Studios; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Mighty Media Studios seeks a Creative Operations Manager to be the operational backbone of our creative team in the Greater Seattle area. You will own how work moves from intake to delivery and serve as the primary non-creative contact for timelines and budgets.

You will build and maintain an effective operational stack, establish a single source of truth, and push for improvements that reduce friction while protecting strong relationships with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Operational systems implementation and improvement
• Stakeholder management leadership
• Project management across multiple initiatives
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Budget tracking and financial visibility
• Production coordination and resourcing

Responsibilities

• Primary point of contact for non-creative stakeholder questions (timelines, budgets, status).
• Own and improve the team's operational stack and tools as a single source of truth.
• Negotiate notes, budget changes, and timeline shifts with stakeholders and the creative team.
• Track and report on budgets to keep spend on plan.
• Ingest projects, assess scope, and flight work across the team.
• Coordinate schedules and resourcing based on bandwidth and skills.
• Plan capacity against upcoming work and maintain trackers.
• Facilitate team meetings and keep project trackers current.
• Provide hands-on production support when needed (on-set help).
• Act as a flexible swingman across production when extra hands are needed.

Job description

Mighty Media Studios seeks a Creative Operations Manager to be the operational backbone of our creative team in the Greater Seattle area. You will own how work moves from intake to delivery and serve as the primary non-creative contact for timelines and budgets.

You will build and maintain an effective operational stack, establish a single source of truth, and push for improvements that reduce friction while protecting strong relationships with stakeholders.