Sr Manager - Creative Services Ops

Verisign Inc.; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Verisign Inc. is seeking a Sr Manager - Creative Services Ops in Reston, VA for a hybrid work schedule.

You will own end-to-end project scopes, timelines, budgets, and risk assessments across a portfolio of creative projects, acting as the strategic liaison between internal clients and the creative team to ensure timely delivery and brand fidelity. The role requires deep experience in creative operations, program management, and stakeholder leadership, with a focus on capacity planning, QA, and

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in marketing, product/project management, or related field.
• 10+ years of marketing experience with a track record in leading teams.
• Experience managing others and coordinating creative operations.
• Familiarity with Agile project management; experience using JIRA.
• Ability to prepare comprehensive project requirements documentation.
• Ability to manage stakeholder relationships and align cross-functional partners.
• Proven skills in managing creative and design projects to schedule and spec.
• Ability to influence and gain consensus across orgs.
• Strong operational instincts with capacity planning and risk mitigation.

Responsibilities

• Owns end-to-end project scopes, timelines, budgets, and risk assessments across a portfolio.
• Strategic account lead for cross-functional partners to ensure design fidelity and strategic alignment.
• Connector across creative, strategy, production, media, agency, and client-facing teams.
• Manage multiple tasks in parallel; assist capacity planning and timeline management.
• Quality Assurance: review deliverables for accuracy, context, and errors.

Skills

10+ yrs marketing experience

People management

Creative operations

Requirements docs

Agile / Jira

Stakeholder management

Creative project mgmt

Influence / negotiation

Operational planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelors degree in marketing or related field

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services.

We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet. We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career.

The Sr Manager - Creative Services Ops serves as the primary relationship owner, ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and translating business needs into actionable plans. Operating within our internal creative agency, this role bridges the gap between creative vision and real-world execution. The position requires an individual who deeply understands what it takes to bring a creative program to life and can champion the work across the organization. Partnering closely with the Creative Director and senior leadership, this person will scale a growing body of work-ensuring creative intent is protected, timelines are grounded in reality, and every touchpoint reflects the brand at its best.

Responsibilities include managing the intake of creative briefs, as well as the planning and delivery of design assets, UX research, digital and print advertising, and other creative projects for Verisign's UX and Creative Services team. Driven by a forward-looking mindset, this position requires anticipating roadblocks, planning for future capacity, and applying foundational operational skills to recognize what to look out for from day one. This individual owns all key updates, timelines, and project recaps to keep teams aligned. Additionally, they oversee quality assurance - ensuring all deliverables sent to client teams include the appropriate context for review, accurately reflect business feedback, and are free of errors. As the primary liaison for internal clients, this position ensures stakeholders are looped into milestones, meet deadlines for content and approvals, and stay informed if shifting priorities or changing requirements impact timelines.

Other key responsibilities

• Owns end-to-end project scopes, timelines, budgets, and risk assessments to ensure total transparency, accountability, and on-time delivery across a portfolio of simultaneous projects. Drives scoping and team readiness, ensuring projects are clearly defined before resourcing, while actively managing day-to-day team workflows and staffing plans. As a key collaborator, partners on agency strategy, supporting the sourcing and scaling of relationships with internal stakeholders. Interfaces directly with internal and external clients to manage expectations, define project scope, and ensure long-term satisfaction.
• Serves as a strategic account lead for cross-functional partners and MPC stakeholders to build and maintain strong working relationships. Ensures proper brief intake and follow-through so that design intent is delivered with fidelity, purpose, and strategic alignment. Ensures total synchronization across project briefs, client expectations, and milestones. Interfaces directly with partners to gather and flesh out project requirements, ensuring the creative team has the comprehensive context needed to execute effectively.
• Acts as a connector across creative, strategy, production, media, agency, and client-facing teams to ensure nothing falls through the cracks. Facilitates stakeholder alignment across departments, making sure creative work directly supports broader campaign and business initiative goals. Elevates internal operations through the ongoing evaluation and refinement of workflows, systems, and production practices to optimize efficiency across the organization.
• Manages multiple tasks and fast-paced projects in parallel and ensures that creative team members are on track to deliver as promised. Assists Director in capacity planning and timeline management for large projects.
• Quality Assurance: Reviews all creative deliverables before stakeholder distribution to ensure they accurately reflect business feedback, carry the appropriate context for review, and are free of errors.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in marketing or product/project management, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of related marketing experience
• Experience managing others
• Experience with creative operations or account management within an advertising agency or internal corporate creative studio
• Ability to prepare comprehensive project requirement documentation
• Familiarity with Agile project management methodologies; experience with JIRA
• Ability to lead relationships with cross-functional internal business clients, managing expectations, interpreting distinct business requirements, and resolving friction seamlessly
• Proven skills in project management of creative and design projects and background participating in large cross-functional teams, ensuring that projects and changes get developed according to specification and schedule
• Ability to influence and gain consensus within organizations including across multiple business units to move projects forward
• Strong operational instincts with a forward-looking mindset-capable of anticipating project bottlenecks, mitigating delivery risks, and planning around capacity hurdles

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

The pay range is $135,800 - $183,800.

The anticipated annual base salary range for these positions is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.

Verisign is an equal opportunity employer. That means we recruit, hire, compensate, train, promote, transfer, and administer all terms and conditions of employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected categories under applicable law.