Head of Creative & Marketing Ops

Requirements

5+ years of work experience, at least 2 of them running creative production or marketing

Hands-on with design tools (Figma, Adobe, or similar) and ad platforms (Meta at minimum)

Strong written English (C1+) and comfortable spoken English on a live call

Available 9am to 5pm US Pacific, Monday to Friday

Reliable internet with a backup, a good camera and headset, a quiet workspace

Modern laptop with 24GB+ RAM

The role

Two jobs, one person.

Creative operations. We produce social cuts, motion graphics, VFX, and out-of-home for brands, with in-house and freelance artists. You get that work moving: briefs out, artists booked, work reviewed, deliverables shipped on time. When an artist goes quiet, you find out why that day.

Marketing. You run Babou's own marketing: social, paid ads, email, the site, campaigns. You make the posts, build the campaigns, and ship them yourself.

Whatever is stuck this week is yours. You fix it that day.

We want to hand you an outcome and then stop thinking about it.

"Our Instagram hasn't posted in two weeks. Fix it."

"Three deliverables are late. Get them out the door."

"The launch needs a campaign by Friday."

This is probably not for you if

You would rather plan the content calendar than make the post

Your first move is to hire someone or buy a tool

You have only ever managed managers

You need tasks specified before you can start

You think AI output is finished work

On AI

We are a slop-free startup.

AI makes output cheap. It has not made reviewing that output any cheaper. Handing us unreviewed AI output moves your work onto someone else's desk, and that will end the job.

Use AI constantly, to take on more than one person could. Read everything before it leaves your hands.

Backgrounds that tend to work

Your title matters much less than what you actually made and shipped.

You came up as a designer, editor, or motion artist, then started running the work

You produced creative at an agency or studio on tight turnarounds

You ran marketing at a startup with no budget

Former founder, or early employee where everyone did everything

Compensation

USD 3,000 to 4,000 per month, paid monthly

Equity possible for the right person

Fully remote

12 days PTO, accrued at 1 day per month, rising to 15 after year 1

Direct access to the founders

GSuite, Notion, Slack, Attio, Monday.com, Loom, and whatever AI tooling makes you fastest

Every finalist does a short paid project before we hire.

Join a small San Francisco startup as the person who keeps our creative and our marketing moving.

Babou gives brand creative teams more production capacity. They set the creative direction, and we produce everything downstream of it: social cuts, motion graphics, VFX, in-store, and out-of-home. Brands use us to run more campaigns without growing their production team or raising agency spend.

We are small and early. You work directly with the two founders.