manager, Advertising Operations

Starbucks • Seattle, WA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager leads production efforts across key campaigns, ensuring alignment with brand strategy and creative vision. This role oversees budgets, timelines, and execution while collaborating closely with agencies, internal teams, and production partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience supporting advertising production, project management, or integrated marketing campaigns in an agency, production company, or in-house brand environment.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Proven ability to manage large-scale productions and cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing budgets and vendor negotiations.
• Deep understanding of production workflows, post-production, and media delivery.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing location-based productions and employee or partner talent casting processes preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the end-to-end production process for advertising campaigns, including film, paid social, audio, OOH, photography, digital assets and activations.
• Partner with creative, marketing, and agency teams to bring campaign concepts to life.
• Manage production budgets, ensuring cost efficiency while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Serve as the point person on set, ensuring smooth execution and troubleshooting challenges.
• Establish and uphold production best practices, ensuring compliance with brand and legal guidelines.
• Guide and mentor junior production team members.
• Partner with agencies and cross-functional teams to evaluate talent, music, licensing, and intellectual property opportunities, ensuring leaders understand creative, financial, legal, operational, and timing considerations before decisions are made.
• Facilitate the integration of retail operations, partner talent, and physical store environments into advertising productions while preserving brand integrity and operational excellence.
• Lead partner talent casting processes, including candidate evaluation, good-standing verification, approvals, and coordination with field leadership and Partner Resources.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits.
• short-term and long-term disability
• paid parental leave
• family expansion reimbursement
• paid vacation from date of hire
• sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
• eight paid holidays
• two personal days per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
• Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
• incentivized emergency savings
• financial well-being tools
• 100%25 upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
• student loan management resources
• access to other educational opportunities
• backup care
• DACA reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed