Playable Production Lead
Manage and grow execution leads for playable ad production. Own delivery targets, quality, and production readiness across remote teams. Scale workflows and build reporting systems. 6+ years management experience in high-volume production environments required. Fluent English.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage and develop execution leads (Auditor Team Leads and Operations Managers), setting leadership standards and investing in their growth.
- Own performance across leads, ensuring team health, motivation, and retention, and build a pipeline for future leaders.
- Own delivery targets and commitments, translating partner priorities into concrete plans and ensuring production readiness across Auditors, HTML5 Dev, QA, and Asset Management.
- Maintain a live read on delivery, proactively identify risks, and drive throughput and efficiency without compromising quality.
- Hold one execution and quality bar across all creative units, clearly defining ownership and driving structural fixes to friction and broken handoffs.
- Partner with Product, Creative, Partnership Growth, and R&D to align cross-functional workflows and implement improvements.
- Own hiring, onboarding, and the structuring of new genre-based units as the organization scales.
- Run production on clear systems and ownership, moving away from informal knowledge and personal follow-ups.
- Own the operational usability of internal tools (Apollo, Atlas, Cosmo, Logos) and channel production feedback to Product and R&D.
- Maintain a standing reporting system providing leadership with always-on visibility into delivery and production status.
Requirements
- 6+ years of management experience in a high-volume production environment (e.g., creative agency, animation studio, post-production studio).
- Experience managing team leads or managers, not only individual contributors.
- Hands-on background in production, creative, or post-production to understand the craft and the team.
- Operational fluency: comfortable owning workflows, dashboards, reporting, and repeatable systems at scale.
- Experience holding quality and consistency across a remote, distributed team across multiple timezones.
- Comfortable working in a technical, AI-driven environment with internal tools.
- Strong problem-solving mindset, with the ability to spot drift early and drive practical fixes.
- Excellent communication skills to keep teams aligned and stakeholders updated.
- Proactive, decisive, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup mid-restructure.
- Fluent English, written and spoken, for leading meetings, documentation, and global communication.
Nice to have
- Experience in mobile gaming, playable ads, ad-tech, or performance marketing.
- Experience working with internally developed AI tools, not just consumer products like ChatGPT.
- Experience collaborating with Product and Tech teams on internal tools, automations, or workflow improvements.