Sr. Creative Program Manager, Creative Garage

Amazon.com Inc

Bellevue, WA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Best Practices, Brand Strategy, Budget Management, Business Operations, Business-to-Business (B2B), Capacity Management, Capacity Utilization, Change Management, Cross-Functional, Customer Satisfaction, Customer/Client Research, Design Document, Digital Video, Direct Mail, Financial Reporting, Forecasting, Functional Programming Languages, Global Branding, Health Maintenance, Integrated Circuits (ICs), International Operations, Leadership, Logistics, Marketing, Marketing/Sales Collateral, Metrics, Operational Communications, Operations Management, Operations Planning, Operations Processes, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Productivity Model, Project/Program Management, Reporting Dashboards, Reporting Skills, Resource Management, Sales, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Shipping/Receiving, Strategic Planning, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Team Player, Testing, Time Management, Vendor/Supplier Selection, eCommerce
LOCATION
Bellevue, WA
POSTED
20 days ago

Worldwide Operations collectively represents some of the most critical components of Amazon"s first-class transportation network. This organization oversees all global middle and last mile products, spanning B2B and B2C, critical partners, enterprise and SMB customers across numerous teams. This includes-but is not limited to-Amazon Supply Chain Services, Amazon Freight, Amazon Relay, Amazon Freight Partners, Amazon Shipping, Amazon Flex, Amazon Hub Delivery and more. Everything we do is aimed at further delighting our shippers, carriers and partners with faster, cheaper, and more efficient means of shipping and receiving packages.

Creative Garage (CG) is a central shared-services creative studio supporting the portfolio of global supply chain products. The team develops brand strategy and creative solutions that engage global transportation audiences through the human stories behind logistics. We build and own the global brands and their creative expression throughout the customer journey-working closely with marketing, sales, and customer insights partners to test, learn, and ensure our design solutions resonate with target audiences. We have high standards and strive to continuously raise the bar across all creative elements.

We are looking for a Senior Creative Program Manager to own resource management, capacity planning, and creative operations for a team of 25+ creatives (designers, copywriters, production artists, and more) supporting 10+ global businesses. This is a high-impact IC role at the center of how Creative Garage operates-responsible for the systems, processes, and partnerships that enable our studio to deliver excellent creative work at scale.

The right candidate brings deep expertise in creative program management and uses sound judgment to design long-term operational solutions in an environment where strategy is not always defined. They own complex, cross-functional programs end-to-end, create scalable mechanisms that increase studio efficiency, and influence across partner teams and senior leadership to drive alignment. They are both tactical and strategic-equally comfortable triaging today"s incoming requests and building the capacity model for next quarter. They develop a strong understanding of Amazon"s supply chain products and become the operational backbone of Creative Garage, connecting the dots between business demand, creative capacity, and team health.

This role partners closely with senior leadership on planning, goal development, and resource strategy. The Senior Creative Program Manager may manage contractor project managers in the future.

Key job responsibilities

Resource Management & Capacity Planning

Own end-to-end resource management and capacity planning for the studio, mapping creative skills and availability against a portfolio of programs across 10+ global businesses

Maintain workload balance across all studio members, strategically assigning projects to internal and external resources to optimize the pipeline and mitigate long-term risks

Build and maintain forecasting models that anticipate demand, identify resourcing gaps, and inform headcount and vendor recommendations to leadership

Make trade-offs between short-term delivery needs and long-term team sustainability, escalating appropriately when constraints require senior input

Creative Operations & Process

Own the studio"s project management platform (Workfront), ensuring it serves as a reliable source of truth for project status, resource allocation, and reporting.

Triage and traffic all new creative requests submitted to the studio, assessing scope, identifying information gaps, and determining owners and next steps

Own and evolve creative development processes end-to-end (concept to production) across mediums including video, digital, social, OOH, direct mail, events, and sales collateral-ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery

Design, document, and implement scalable mechanisms that systematically improve studio efficiency, throughput, and quality of output

Drive operational excellence best practices across the studio; identify where to simplify, automate, or extend solutions for the best outcome

Program Reporting & Studio Health

Own, develop and maintain studio health dashboards that provide visibility into capacity utilization, delivery performance, and pipeline forecasting

Develop program reporting across finance, business reviews, client satisfaction, and team goals-connecting operational metrics to org-level objectives

Contribute to OP1/OP2 narratives and organizational goal-setting as they relate to creative operations and resource strategy

Stakeholder Management & Communication

Serve as a primary operational point of contact for Creative Garage, building effective partnerships with both the internal creative team and business partners across the global supply chain org

Drive cross-functional alignment across multiple business partners and external agencies globally; educate partners on studio process, SLAs, and capacity constraints

Anticipate bottlenecks, manage escalations, and balance business needs against resource constraints-finding a path forward in difficult situations

Present updates to stakeholders and cross-functional partners, including senior management up to VP level, with clear and concise written and verbal communication

Own change management communications for studio operations updates across creative team and business stakeholders

About the team

We call ourselves the Creative Garage. We are an internal creative studio built to centrally support the global supply chain org. We believe creatives working together on a central team creates a stronger, more collaborative environment-more career growth opportunities and stronger creative solutions for our customers. We make logistics human and love telling the stories of those who make the supply chain work. Most importantly, we make great creative and have fun doing it.

Come build with us.

About the Company

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COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles