Manager, Creative - Studio Pre-Production Operations – eCommerce Content Studio

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, Studio Pre-Production Operations role is a key leadership position responsible for owning and scaling pre-production operations that enable efficient, high-quality content creation for our US eCommerce business. You’ll sweep us off our feet if: · You have strong experience in studio operations, production planning, or pre-production within a creative or eCommerce environment · You understand retail product content workflows end-to-end, from intake through final delivery · You are highly organized, analytical, and able to manage complex workflows and competing priorities · You have experience leading teams and developing talent in a fast-paced environment · You are skilled at building cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders · You bring a process-oriented mindset with a focus on scalability and continuous improvement · You thrive in ambiguity and are energized by solving operational challenges at scale You’ll make an impact by: Pre-Production Ownership & Strategy · Owning the pre-production function, including planning, intake, and asset readiness · Establishing planning frameworks, intake models, and capacity strategies to support business needs · Designing and implementing scalable pre-production processes that improve efficiency and throughput Operational Excellence & Workflow Management · Driving workflow health across intake, planning, and readiness to ensure seamless production execution · Making decisions on team operations, prioritization, and process improvements · Forecasting, monitoring, and managing pre-production capacity, timelines, and deliverables · Improving speed, scalability, and quality of intake and pre-production outputs · Adapting to evolving business needs and leading through change Cross-Functional Alignment · Partnering closely with production, photography, styling, merchandising, and creative teams to ensure alignment · Driving clarity and coordination across upstream and downstream functions · Building strong relationships to support efficient handoffs and execution Team Leadership & Development · Directly managing pre-production team(s), including planners, coordinators, or producers · Setting performance expectations and holding the team accountable to goals and outcomes · Coaching, developing, and building team capabilities to support growth and scale · Supporting company mission, values, and ethical standards in all business practices Risk Management & Problem Solving · Anticipating upstream risks and dependencies that could impact production timelines · Building safeguards, contingency plans, and escalation paths · Identifying and addressing systemic challenges to improve overall operations Financial & Resource Management · Coordinating and managing pre-production budgets, resources, and vendor relationships as applicable · Optimizing resource allocation to balance cost, speed, and quality The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 1 year's experience in interactive design, editorial content management, or related field OR 3 years' experience in interactive design, editorial content management, or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Content Management Systems
• Managing interactive projects in an online creative or related digital field
• Working for or with creative agencies
• Working with Design Software (For example, Adobe Creative Suite), including proficiency in advanced functions (For example, multi-layer masking and compositing)

Responsibilities

• Owning the pre-production function, including planning, intake, and asset readiness
• Establishing planning frameworks, intake models, and capacity strategies to support business needs
• Designing and implementing scalable pre-production processes that improve efficiency and throughput
• Driving workflow health across intake, planning, and readiness to ensure seamless production execution
• Making decisions on team operations, prioritization, and process improvements
• Forecasting, monitoring, and managing pre-production capacity, timelines, and deliverables
• Improving speed, scalability, and quality of intake and pre-production outputs
• Adapting to evolving business needs and leading through change
• Partnering closely with production, photography, styling, merchandising, and creative teams to ensure alignment
• Driving clarity and coordination across upstream and downstream functions
• Building strong relationships to support efficient handoffs and execution
• Directly managing pre-production team(s), including planners, coordinators, or producers
• Setting performance expectations and holding the team accountable to goals and outcomes
• Coaching, developing, and building team capabilities to support growth and scale
• Supporting company mission, values, and ethical standards in all business practices
• Anticipating upstream risks and dependencies that could impact production timelines
• Building safeguards, contingency plans, and escalation paths
• Identifying and addressing systemic challenges to improve overall operations
• Coordinating and managing pre-production budgets, resources, and vendor relationships as applicable
• Optimizing resource allocation to balance cost, speed, and quality

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO (including sick leave)
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement
• Jury duty
• Voting
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
• High school completion
• Bachelor's degrees
• English Language Learning
• Short-form certificates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager