Studio Manager

Job Title: Studio Manager

The Ideal Candidate

We are seeking an experienced Studio Manager from a well-established, fast-paced digital business, ideally within a performance-driven or highly regulated environment.

The ideal candidate combines exceptional organisational skills with the resilience and adaptability required to manage high-pressure, rapidly changing priorities. You do not need to be a designer, but you must have a strong understanding of creative production processes and digital marketing.

Calm Under Pressure: You remain composed when sudden business developments require marketing teams to revise campaign strategies at short notice.

Process-Driven but Adaptable: You value structured workflows and operational efficiency while remaining agile enough to respond to changing business requirements, regulatory updates, and emerging market developments.

Performance-Focused: You respect the creative process but are equally driven by measurable outcomes, including turnaround times, team capacity, resource utilisation, and creative performance metrics.

You will play an important role in supporting business growth by ensuring creative operations are efficient, scalable, and commercially aligned.

You bring a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and are confident managing stakeholder expectations, setting realistic delivery timelines, and ensuring resources are directed towards the highest-priority initiatives.

What You Will Be Doing

1. Workflow and Marketing Initiative Management

• Manage Creative Intake: Review, scope, and prioritise incoming creative briefs from internal stakeholders.
• Allocate Resources: Assign marketing initiatives to designers, writers, and multimedia specialists based on availability, expertise, and project requirements, in collaboration with creative leadership.
• Develop Project Timelines: Establish project schedules, milestones, and clear delivery deadlines.
• Monitor Progress: Track daily task completion, identify bottlenecks, and adjust resource allocation to maintain delivery schedules.
• Coordinate Reviews: Manage feedback cycles and approval processes between creative teams and internal stakeholders.

2. Agile Campaign Management

• Manage Rapid-Response Workflows: Develop efficient processes for time-sensitive marketing content and campaigns requiring immediate turnaround.
• Coordinate Localisation: Oversee the translation and cultural adaptation of marketing campaigns across multiple international markets.
• Manage High-Volume Marketing Deliverables: Coordinate assets for ongoing A/B testing, including landing pages, paid social advertisements, digital banners, and app store creatives.
• Synchronise Multichannel Launches: Align creative production timelines with product updates, platform enhancements, and new product or service launches.

3. Team and Capacity Operations

• Forecast Team Capacity: Monitor workloads, anticipate resource constraints, prevent burnout, and identify when external freelance support is required.
• Lead Team Stand-Ups: Facilitate daily or weekly meetings to align team members on priorities, progress, and immediate deliverables.
• Optimise Operational Tools: Oversee project management platforms and collaboration tools to improve workflow visibility, coordination, and efficiency.

4. Regulatory Compliance and Quality Control

• Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Integrate mandatory legal and compliance review processes into creative production workflows to ensure required disclosures and risk warnings are included.
• Maintain Brand Consistency: Ensure brand standards are upheld across multiple creative formats, including educational content, digital videos, business-related communications, and partner marketing materials.
• Coordinate Regulatory Updates: Manage the implementation of changes to legal footers, terms, and risk disclosures across relevant creative templates and marketing assets.
• Manage Digital Assets: Oversee asset organisation, file-naming conventions, version control, and storage within the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system.
• Coordinate External Production: Manage external creative vendors and production partners to support overflow requirements and delivery timelines.

5. Stakeholder Communication

• Manage Stakeholder Expectations: Act as the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders regarding project progress, priorities, and delivery timelines.
• Resolve Competing Priorities: Balance resource requests across departments and negotiate delivery expectations when multiple initiatives require support simultaneously.
• Report Operational Metrics: Track and report on team productivity, project volumes, delivery performance, and resource utilisation to senior leadership.

Experience Required

• Experience working in a fast-paced digital business, performance marketing environment, or creative agency where rapid prioritisation and high-volume delivery are essential.
• Experience managing creative production pipelines across performance marketing, content marketing, affiliate or partner marketing, CRM, websites, and mobile applications.
• Experience coordinating video production and motion graphics workflows for digital advertising, educational content, and business-related communications.
• Experience managing translation, localisation, and creative adaptation workflows across multiple regions, languages, and cultural contexts.
• Experience forecasting team capacity, identifying resource constraints, and managing budgets for freelance or external creative support.
• Experience embedding legal and compliance checkpoints into creative production workflows to ensure that unauthorised or non-compliant content is not published.
• Experience using project management and digital asset management tools, such as Jira or equivalent platforms.