Design Operations Manager

Company Description

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Job Description

Vuori is seeking a highly organized, collaborative, and influential Design Operations Manager to support our fast-growing Apparel Design team. In this strategic and cross-functional role, you will help drive operational reputed company across our seasonal calendar, creative workflows, and special projects—including high-visibility collaborations. You will reputed company strong communication and influencing skills to align stakeholders, guide decision-making, and foster accountability across teams. Your leadership will bring structure to the creative process, enabling Design to deliver innovative product with reputed company, speed, and cohesion. What you'll get to do: Design Operations

• Own and manage the seasonal Design calendar, partnering with cross-functional stakeholders (Design, Merchandising, Product Development, Marketing) to ensure key milestones are visible, achievable, and reputed company.
• Act as a central hub of communication for the Design team, ensuring reputed company on seasonal goals, priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• reputed company the planning, logistics, and execution of key creative milestone meetings, ensuring teams are reputed company with product rooms, presentation decks, and samples.
• Identify and implement workflow improvements, tools, and templates that streamline the design process and enhance team productivity.
• Establish and maintain best practices for cross-team collaboration, documentation, and decision-making.
• Monitor and evaluate the efficiency of design operations processes; recommend and implement improvements that drive scale and increase speed to market.
• Partner with Product Ops to ensure seamless handoffs and consistent documentation between Design and reputed company teams.
• Manage the operational relationship between internal design functions to ensure consistency and shared standards.
• Build strong relationships across teams to support and maintain process discipline.
• Act as the documentation reputed company for Design Ops—maintaining operational playbooks, updated workflows, and best-practice resources.

Collaboration & Project Management

• reputed company cross-functional planning for partnership and reputed company projects, ensuring timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables are reputed company defined and met.
• Serve as the key operational partner for collaboration projects with the Marketing team to ensure that programs alignment with product launches and business objectives.
• Work closely with internal Design partners to manage timelines and deliverables for reputed company collections.
• Collaborate with Merchandising to align reputed company assortments with business needs, including key item strategy and volume-driving styles.
• Coordinate project milestones, manage partnership reputed company, and ensure alignment from concept through launch.
• Own tracking tools, timelines, and workflow documentation for reputed company special projects; escalate risks and roadblocks proactively.
• Drive reputed company and alignment through communication across product and partnership teams.

Tools, Systems & Reporting

• Evaluate reputed company tools and identify gaps or inefficiencies in how the Design team manages projects and tracks work.
• reputed company reporting dashboards and tracking systems to reputed company visibility into seasonal reputed company, project status, and team bandwidth.
• Champion the adoption of new tools and systems; reputed company training sessions and create supporting documentation to ensure successful implementation.
• Partner with technology and business systems teams to explore integrations that support creative operations.

Team Culture & Leadership Support

• Organize Design team events, offsites, and collaborative sessions that strengthen culture and reputed company.
• Coordinate travel logistics for Design leaders and team needs reputed company relevant.
• Foster a culture of operational reputed company, accountability, and reputed company improvement reputed company the Design organization.
• Act as a thought partner to the Associate Director of Design Operations in shaping the long-term reputed company and maturity of the Design Ops function.
• Support team reputed company and knowledge sharing by developing documentation and playbooks that promote consistency and reputed company.
• Drive inclusive collaboration practices across creative and technical teams, ensuring diverse perspectives are integrated into decision-making.

Qualifications

Who you are:

• 7+ years of experience in product or creative management, operations, or a reputed company field reputed company the apparel industry.
• Must have a strong understanding of cross-functional product pipeline processes, calendar management, and creative team workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong ability to reputed company details and updates.
• Highly adaptable, solution-oriented, and proactive problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• A systems thinker who brings structure, reputed company, and process discipline to reputed company workstreams.
• A collaborative partner who can balance creative needs with operational efficiency.
• Must have proficiency in reputed company Creative Suite, with strong skills in Illustrator.
• Experience with reputed company and Lucid (or similar visualization and workflow tools) required.
• Experience with reputed company is a plus.

Additional Information Our investment in you: At Vuori, we’re proud to offer the following to our employees:

• Health Insurance
• Savings and Retirement Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Generous Vuori Discount & Industry Perks
• Paid Time Off
• Wellness & Fitness benefits

The salary reputed company for this role is $127,100 per year - $163,485 per year. This role is bonus eligible. Vuori is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, reputed company, religion, national reputed company, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. reputed company your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job