Senior Studio Manager at Ōura

United States

$117.3k - $169k

Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles. Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. As a key strategic partner to the Creative Director, you will help build the infrastructure that allows world-class creative work to happen efficiently, consistently, and at scale across brand, product, and marketing programs globally. What you will do: Creative Logistics & Forecasting Serve as the single source of truth for the status and health of all active projects within the department. Maintain a holistic, high-level view of the entire department’s workload to ensure the creative engine is operating at its best. Monitor individual bandwidth across the team to prevent fragmentation and ensure a sustainable pace of work for all creatives. Match projects to specific designers, writers, and artists based on a deep understanding of their unique skills, styles, and current allocations. Develop 3–6 month capacity forecasts to help anticipate resource needs and potential hiring requirements. Identify and resolve friction points within the internal creative process to improve collective output and team morale. Project Vetting & Resourcing Serve as the primary point of contact for the creative team to ensure all incoming requests are complete and actionable. Partner with Marketing Ops to provide a creative lens on the request pipeline, ensuring projects are prioritized by business impact and team bandwidth. Review new briefs to identify missing information or strategic gaps, ensuring creatives have everything they need to begin work immediately. Determine the most effective timing for creative involvement in each project to ensure high-quality results and efficient use of time. Protect the creative team’s bandwidth and prevent overload by consolidating fragmented or overlapping requests into cohesive workstreams. Prepare logistical materials for leadership reviews and cross-functional meetings to ensure clear communication on project status. Advise cross-functional partners on project feasibility and timelines during the initial intake phase to ensure realistic project launches. Operational Partnership & Infrastructure Act as the lead operational counterpart to the Creative Director, translating creative vision into executable plans. Help to stand up a global creative presence that supports regional needs globally while maintaining brand consistency. Build and maintain a global bench of trusted freelance talent (designers, writers, producers) who can activate quickly as needed. Partner with project-specific Producers to ensure individual project schedules align with the broader department’s priorities and total capacity. Tailor and refine the operational workflows and tools to ensure they meet the specific, daily logistical needs of the creative team. Serve as a proxy for creative leads in operational discussions to ensure the team’s needs are represented in cross-functional planning. Foster a culture of operational excellence that complements and protects creative ambition. This is a remote US role. Requirements We would love to consider you for this role if you have: 7+ years in creative operations, creative project management, or creative services — ideally within a high-growth consumer brand, agency, or in-house creative team Experience managing a blended resourcing model: internal teams, freelancers, and agency partners simultaneously Proven ability to understand and assess creative briefs with strong instincts for information gaps and brief readiness Experience building and scaling creative workflows and resourcing models across large, multi-channel organizations Strong cross-functional fluency — comfortable operating at the intersection of creative, marketing, product, and business stakeholders Deep experience in brand, product, and marketing creative — you know what great looks like and you know what it takes to produce it Experience at a wearable, health tech, or consumer goods brand (in-house or through long term agency partnership) Skills Exceptional project management skills — you can hold as many as 20 concurrent workstreams without losing sight of the details Clear, direct communicator who can translate ambiguity into action and push back with confidence when needed Deep knowledge of technical specifications for print and digital creative deliverables Proficiency with modern creative project management tools and workflow platforms (Asana, etc) Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Figma, Frame.io, Slack Familiarity with AI-assisted creative and production tools Benefits At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health. What we offer: Competitive salary and equity packages Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off Paid sick leave and parental leave Oura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. Region 1 $143,650 - $169,000 Region 2 $130,050 - $153,000 Region 3 $117,300 - $138,000 A recruiter can determine your Region based on your US location. We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI). Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 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