Senior Manager, Brand Operations & Production - San Francisco / Los Angeles

The role

This person will build the operating structure to keep global brand work aligned, on brand, and on budget. They will own how global brand work moves from strategy to production to regional rollout.

What you will do

• Run global brand management day to day, including operating rhythms, standards, and decision rights
• Build processes for turning global strategy into regional plans
• Roll out brand, strategic, and creative systems across the organization
• Partner with GTM teams, product marketing, global marketing leads, creative, regional marketing, and localization
• Design end-to-end creative workflow for briefing, production, review, and approval
• Set intake standards, review cycles, and turnaround expectations
• Own key production across content, brand assets, and photo and video shoots
• Partner with creative to streamline asset building using AI tooling and efficient shoot models
• Manage production vendors, timelines, and costs
• Support management of the global brand budget and report spend to leadership

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in brand operations, creative operations, production, and/or marketing program management
• Hands-on production experience across shoots, content, and asset pipelines, either in-house or agency side
• Track record of building processes that teams adopt, across multiple markets or time zones
• Experience owning budgets and vendor contracts, with fluency in spend tracking and forecasting
• Working knowledge of AI tools for asset creation
• Experience working with localization or multi-market campaign rollout
• Calm, clear communication with executives, creatives, and regional teams

Nice to have

• Experience in consumer technology, hardware, or AI
• Experience working with creative and marketing teams across the US, Europe, and Asia

Benefits

• Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy
• 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching
• Unlimited PTO
• 13 paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid new parent leave
• Choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups
• Best office equipment
• Annual offsites
• Free office drinks and snacks

About the company

Plaud is a San Francisco-based company building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance.