Description
The Creative Partnerships function builds trusted relationships with influential people, brands and institutions across entertainment, sports, fashion, music, media, publishing, and the creator economy.
We are looking for a highly strategic, analytical, and collaborative Strategy and Operations Lead to partner with the Creative Partnerships leadership team.
In this role, you will:
- Serve as a strategic and operational partner to the Creative Partnerships leadership team, helping translate priorities into clear plans, decisions, and follow-through.
- Design and run the team’s core operating rhythms, including planning cycles, business reviews, leadership meetings, decision forums, offsites, and cross-functional communications.
- Maintain a clear and trusted view of the team’s active and upcoming work, organizational commitments, dependencies, capacity, and risks.
- Help leadership prioritize opportunities against Creative Partnerships’ goals, evaluate competing requests, and determine where to invest, reduce, defer, or redirect resources.
- Lead annual and half-year planning, goal setting, roadmap development, and progress reviews, connecting strategic priorities to the people, budget, and operating support required to deliver them.
- Own the leadership process for headcount, organizational planning, and resource requests.
- Partner with Resource Management and Production to anticipate staffing and capacity needs, evaluate internal and external options, and identify delivery risks early.
- Establish the team’s partnership with Finance and program owners to maintain visibility into allocations, forecasts, commitments, actuals, and material risks.
- Develop scenarios and analyses that clarify the costs, expected value, resource requirements, and operational implications of proposed programs and partnerships.
- Lead strategic and cross-functional initiatives that help Creative Partnerships scale, including operating-model design, portfolio management, role clarity, partner strategy, and new programs built from zero to one.
- Organize working teams around complex priorities by establishing owners, decision rights, milestones, dependencies, and effective working rhythms.
- Create concise executive communications, recommendations, decision memos, and operating materials that help leaders understand complex issues and align quickly.
You might thrive in this role if you:
- Bring 10+ years of experience in Strategy and Operations, Business Operations, Chief of Staff, management consulting, or a related strategic operating role in a fast-moving organization.
- Have served as a trusted partner to senior leaders, helping them set priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, communicate decisions, and maintain organizational alignment.
- Have experience building planning processes, leadership cadences, portfolio systems, and operating models from zero to one.
- Can translate ambiguous or incomplete inputs into structured recommendations, practical plans, and clear ownership.
- Have led complex cross-functional initiatives from initial definition through implementation and sustained operations.
- Bring strong financial and analytical fluency, including experience with budgets, forecasts, investment scenarios, resource allocation, and organizational planning.
- Can distill complex information into concise, executive-ready narratives.
- Can build trust across creative, operational, financial, and business teams and influence decisions without relying on formal authority.
- Understand the people, partners, budgets, and production considerations behind ambitious creative work without needing to be the person setting the creative vision.
- Bring an AI-native builder mindset and look for practical ways to make planning, reporting, decision-making, and coordination simpler and more useful.