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Ethos Life

Director, Creative Operations

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As of Jun 20, 2026, the average yearly pay for director creative operations in the United States is $107,680.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $75,500.00 and $135,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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One of the main challenges faced by a Director Creative Operations is balancing the creative aspirations of the team with practical constraints like budgets, timelines, and client expectations. They are often responsible for streamlining processes, removing bottlenecks, and ensuring that resources are allocated effectively across multiple projects. Navigating the differing priorities of creative staff, marketing teams, and executive stakeholders can also require strong negotiation and diplomacy skills. Successfully managing these challenges leads to smoother workflows, higher productivity, and a more motivated creative team.

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To thrive as a Director Creative Operations, you need expertise in creative project management, resource allocation, and team leadership, typically supported by experience in agency or in-house creative environments and a bachelor's degree in a related field. Familiarity with project management tools like Asana, Workfront, or Trello, as well as workflow automation platforms, is often expected. Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills help set top performers apart in this role. These capabilities ensure creative teams deliver high-quality work efficiently and align with organizational objectives.

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A Director of Creative Operations oversees the workflow, resources, and efficiency of a creative team to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget. They streamline processes, manage cross-functional collaboration, and implement tools to optimize creative output. This role bridges the gap between creative teams and business objectives, balancing operational efficiency with creative excellence.

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Director, Creative Operations

Ethos Life

Remote

Full-time

Posted 2 days ago

Job description

About Ethos
Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.
About the role
Most ops roles exist to manage complexity. This one exists to eliminate it. We're looking for the rare operator who gets genuinely excited by the question: how do we do more with less, faster, and better? Not someone who documents workflows and calls it a day, but someone who believes deeply in the power of creativity, sweats the details, and sees AI not as a threat to great work but as the engine that lets a lean team punch way above its weight.
This role has one core mandate: make the Creative & Brand team operate at its highest possible level. You'll have significant ownership over how we plan, resource, budget, and scale our creative output across every channel and workstream. You'll be the connective tissue between creative ambition and operational reality, and you'll report directly into the VP of Creative & Brand.
Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Own creative operations across the entire Creative & Brand team, including workflow management, capacity planning, resource allocation, and roadmap planning.
  • Build and maintain systems that remove friction and eliminate work about work, so the team spends more time making and less time managing.
  • Build the AI-native operating layer for the Creative & Brand team. This is not about being a power user of Runway or Midjourney - it's about designing and shipping the agentic workflows, internal tools, and automations that change how the team works. You'll architect the systems that connect ideation tools, asset libraries, briefing flows, and trafficking pipelines into end-to-end workflows, and you'll own the measurement that proves they delivered a step change in throughput and quality - not marginal time savings.
  • Partner with the Consumer AI team to identify where Creative & Brand workflows are ripe for agentic automation, and either build those tools yourself or scope and shepherd them through to production. You'll be the team's translator between creative reality and AI capability.
  • Manage the team's budget in partnership with the VP, working closely with finance and legal to ensure accurate forecasting, tracking, and reporting
  • Own relationships with external agencies, vendors, and contractors from onboarding through delivery, including contract management and performance accountability.
  • Serve as the primary cross-functional partner for teams including Performance Marketing, Product, and Partnerships, ensuring creative workstreams are aligned, prioritized, and resourced appropriately.
  • Develop and maintain project management infrastructure across tools including ClickUp, Notion, and Slack, ensuring the team has clear visibility into what's in flight, what's coming, and what's at risk.
  • Build scalable briefing, feedback, and approval processes that maintain quality and speed without creating bottlenecks.
  • Track and report on team capacity, project throughput, and operational health, using data to drive better resourcing and planning decisions.
  • Identify gaps in our operational model and proactively bring solutions.

Qualifications and Skills:
  • 10+ years of experience in creative operations, project management, or program management, with at least several years at a director level, ideally within a high-growth in-house team or agency environment.
  • You're an AI builder, not just an AI user. Being proficient with the tools - prompt libraries, preferred models, tuned personal workflows - is table stakes at Ethos and we expect it from everyone. What we're hiring for is the next level: the ability to build. agentic workflows and internal tools that drive a step change in a team's collective judgment and productivity. Come ready to discuss ~3 concrete examples - what you built, the trade-offs, what broke, what it unlocked. Side projects and personal tools. count; we know not every company is forward-leaning here, and we've seen people move from user to builder in days when they're wired for it.
  • Proven track record building and optimizing creative operations, including managing transformation initiatives where success is measured by value delivered, not just tasks completed.
  • Deep experience managing creative budgets, vendors, agencies, and contractors end to end, including working with legal and finance partners.
  • Strong command of project management tools and creative workflows - you know how to build systems people actually use and you use data to tell the story of the team's impact.
  • A genuine connector, you have a proven ability to partner with diverse stakeholders across creative, marketing, product, legal, and finance to drive alignment and move complex initiatives forward.
  • A genuine belief in the power of creativity and a strong intuition for how creative teams work best.
  • Clear, confident communicator who can advocate for new ways of working in a matrixed organization and make the case to leadership with data.
  • Problem solver, not just a problem spotter, you come with solutions and you follow through.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and adaptable in a fast-moving, data-obsessed environment.

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The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $150,000 - $266,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include applicable bonus, equity, or benefits.
You can find further details of our US benefits at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/
Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.
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Recruitment Notice: Please be aware of recruitment scams. All legitimate communication from our team will only come from email addresses ending in @ethos.com or @getethos.com.We will never ask for payment, banking details, or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If you are contacted by someone claiming to represent us from a different email address, please treat it as fraudulent.

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