Brand Operations Manager

About this role

Location Hybrid – Seattle, WA (4 days in office to start, moving to three, after 12 months.)

Rate: $100,000 – $115,000k

The Role:
The Brand Operations is responsible for intake, prioritization, and trafficking of creative work across Outdoor Research's DTC and Wholesale marketing functions. The role serves as the primary operational partner to the Design and Production teams keeping work moving, briefs clear, and timelines honest.

This is not a campaign ownership role. It is the organizational infrastructure that allows an 8-person brand team to execute at full capacity. The person in this role must carry enough commercial literacy to understand how sell-in and sell-through cycles shape wholesale creative timelines and enough cross-functional range to coordinate across brand, sales, finance, and planning without losing the thread. Understanding Outdoor Performance categories is also a must.

What you’ll do

• Serve as the first point of contact for all creative requests from DTC & Wholesale stakeholders
• Own the team's project management system, maintain it, enforce adoption, and evolve it as the team's needs change
• Support GTM planning by maintaining the master brand calendar, ensuring all workstreams are accounted for and production timelines ladder up correctly to launch dates
• Assist in briefing seasonal creative needs across photo/video, design, and content in partnership with the Production team.
• DTC intake ownership (email, web, paid social, promotional)
• Wholesale creative trafficking (seasonal, sales tools, buyer events)
• Stakeholder communication across both teams
• Sell-in/sell-through calendar awareness

What This Role Is Not:
This role does not own campaigns, set brand strategy, manage athletes, or direct creative work. It does not serve as a substitute for clear stakeholder briefs or act as an account manager for external agencies. It is not an entry-level coordinator position, and it is not a stepping stone for someo...