Creative Operations, Senior Manager

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Marketing & Communications

Job Details

About Salesforce

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About our team

The Global Creative team within Marketing is responsible for our brand and marketing creative. From building brand awareness campaigns to designing experiences like Dreamforce, our multi-faceted team does it all. We are a collection of thinkers, makers and doers, whose sole purpose is to bring the brand to life across our incredible portfolio of work.

About this role

To become a best-in-class in-house agency team, we need best-in-class creative operators - a secret sauce to setting the work up for success. To start cooking, we want to establish a Creative Operations Partnership model to fundamentally elevate how our creative organization operates. 

That’s where you come in. As a Creative Operations Partner, you will serve as the creative operational arm and strategic business partner to our core Creative Leaders, helping them run their business with clarity, discipline, and scale. 

You will drive the planning, intake, prioritization and business-side management of core creative teams, acting as the trusted strategic partner to Creative Leaders while building, scaling and maintaining the operational rigor that will enable their teams to focus deeply on the work and do what they do best - create the best marketing in the biz. You’ll act as the first point of interception for new work, translating business needs into clear operational plans, and ensuring that what enters the pipeline is strategic, aligned, and resourced appropriately. 

With a dotted line into the Creative Ops Lead, you will work alongside other Creative Operational Partners to set the strategy, direction and delivery of core processes and frameworks to create a shared language and ways of working across our global creative teams. From budget management to creative intake workflows, you are the key factor to delivering operational success, helping to drive clarity, consistency and connection across our global teams and output. 

What you will do

Operational Leadership & Business Partnership

• Serve as the day-to-day operational and business management partner to Creative Leaders, helping them run their business across planning, budgeting, prioritization, and measurement.

• Support the Creative Leader in driving the strategy, culture, structure and management of the team, helping to identify and action on efficiencies and opportunities for team development, exposure and retention. 

• Act as a translator between business and creative teams, ensuring expectations, timelines, and priorities are aligned before work enters delivery.

• Lead quarterly and annual planning cycles for respective creative teams and internal partners, establishing clear priorities, intake pathways, and operational rhythms.

• In partnership with Creative Ops leadership, own budget management for Leaders inc. forecasting, opening POs and tracking.

• Be prepared to support any book of creative business based on need, including but not limited to: Events and Experiences, Partnerships and Customer Marketing, Integrated Campaigns, and Brand Creative.

Intake, Triage & Prioritization

• Be the first point of interception for all new work, partnering with Creative Leadership to validate scope, timing, resourcing needs, and alignment to business priorities.

• Manage the implementation, adoption and evolution of intake and triage workflows to ensure clarity on “what’s coming” and prevent overcommitment or misalignment.

• Evaluate incoming requests with a strategic lens to protect creative focus and ensure resources are applied to the highest-value work, while working with other Operational partners to provide