Creative Operations Manager (AI)

Location: Remote across the US; New York preferred. Offices are available in San Francisco and Seattle.

Salary: $180K–$240K for US candidates.

Company

Runway builds AI-powered world models that simulate the world by combining art and science, with applications across storytelling, scientific discovery, robotics, and other areas.

What you will do

• Own creative-team resourcing and scheduling, assigning projects by capacity, skill set, and priority.
• Lead a small team while building and managing project tracking, intake processes, and production calendars.
• Run weekly resourcing meetings and facilitate prioritization with the Creative Director and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Track brand campaigns, product launches, video, social, web, tutorials, events, and tactical marketing assets from brief through delivery.
• Resolve resourcing conflicts, bottlenecks, competing deadlines, and feedback-cycle delays.
• Manage freelancers, vendors, external production partners, budgets, timelines, and bespoke AI-driven processes.

Requirements

• 5+ years in creative resourcing, traffic management, or project management; agency or production-company experience is strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of creative workflows and the judgment to manage competing priorities without compromising quality.
• Experience with resource-management and project-tracking tools such as Asana, Monday, Airtable, or similar; willingness to adopt and evolve Runway's custom solution.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, including running meetings, mediating competing requests, and aligning stakeholders.
• Experience managing freelancers, vendors, and external production partners, including budgets and timelines.
• Ability to understand multiple concurrent workstreams and anticipate operational problems.
• Comfort building processes while executing in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary creative teams including designers, writers, editors, and producers.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work across the US, with New York preferred and offices in San Francisco and Seattle.
• Full-time employment within an in-house creative department operating at high speed.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity and pay equity.
• Salary is based on relevant experience, skill level, qualifications, market rates, and internal equity; the stated range applies to US candidates.