Director, Operations

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
Senior level
AdTech • Marketing Tech • Social Media
The Role
Lead marketing operations transformation as a systems architect: design workflows, integrate AI and tools, drive client onboarding (First 100 Days), ensure governance, productivity, and cross-team delivery while advising C-suite stakeholders and enforcing compliance.
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SUMMARY
At VaynerMedia, Consulting is built around a distinct mission: "We get paid to think and enable teams to be excellent at producing relevance." Unlike traditional consultancies that deliver theoretical advisory models, we focus on pragmatic execution. We build practical operational frameworks, design actionable systems, and empower our client partners to drive operational transformation and impact.
As the Sr. Consultant of Marketing Operations, you will be the operational heartbeat and systems architect for our modern social and marketing transformation practice. You are a Strategic Outcome Manager who designs, builds, and upholds the high-functioning principles, frameworks, and infrastructure that allows our teams and our clients to achieve modern relevance at scale.
Sitting at the center of an integrated team across Client Partnership, Strategy, Media, Analytics, Creative, and Production, you will architect the end-to-end delivery of Marketing Transformation projects, and design client team and workflow recommendations. You will guide major brands through marketing engine transformations—operationalizing Vayner principles, driving AI tool adoption, removing system friction, and ensuring our work delivers measurable business impact across the modern attention landscape.
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
  • Systems Architecture & Operational Excellence: Act as the strategic systems architect for complex client engagements. Design high-functioning team workflows, technical infrastructure, and operating rhythms that integrate AI, CAIT, and modern social practices into daily execution.
  • Marketing Transformation & Organizational Design: Lead client-facing marketing transformation projects (including workshops, R.E.S.E.T. and Co-Lab offerings). Walk the client halls to audit existing marketing engines, redesign client team structures and workflows, and advise executive stakeholders on aligning internal operations with modern relevance strategy.
  • Vayner Product & Principle Upholding: Operationalize and enforce core Vayner capabilities across all engagements—including 7+ Platforms & Handles (P&H) expansion, daily AIM sessions (Analyze, Ideate, Make), Cohort-driven creative execution, and alignment with client BOBOs (Business Objectives & Brand Outcomes). Ensure media and organic social operate synergistically to drive views and sales.
  • 100-Day Excellence & Client Onboarding: Architect and own the client onboarding lifecycle (First 100 Days). Ensure new retainer clients are seamlessly integrated, establishing non-negotiables, setting up governance frameworks, and conducting "elephant meetings" to proactively resolve barriers.
  • End-to-End Delivery & Governance: Serve as the final escalation point and source of truth for scope integrity, legal/business affairs compliance, risk intelligence, and meeting hygiene.
  • Productivity: Hold full accountability for driving productivity on your assigned projects; intentional outcomes, meaningful connections, and communications incl. meetings
  • Leadership & Mindset: Cultivate an equitable, solutions-oriented culture rooted in kind candor, empathy, and active practitioner leadership.
EXPERIENCE / KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED
  • Executive Operations Experience: 5–7+ years of progressive experience in agency operations, management consulting, or marketing transformation
  • Commercial Mastery: Demonstrated expertise managing complex client scopes
  • Systems Architect Mindset: A "Project COO" orientation—passionate about troubleshooting complex team dynamics, building scalable operational frameworks, and converting high-level strategy into seamless execution systems
  • AI & Workflow Integration: Conceptual and practical fluency with AI-assisted agency workflows, modern project management tools (e.g., ClickUp, Google Workspace), and automated delivery systems
  • Deep Modern Social & Relevance Fluency: Expert-level understanding of social-first marketing, algorithm dynamics, Platforms & Culture (PAC), answer engine optimization (AEO/LLM discoverability), and creator ecosystems (CAIT)
  • Client Transformation & Advisory Leadership: Proven ability to interface with C-suite client stakeholders, lead organizational redesigns, navigate complex politics, and guide change management with authority and empathy
  • Human-Centered Leadership: Exceptional communication skills grounded in kind candor, humility, and a "yes, and" growth mindset. Ability to lead through ambiguity and foster high psychological safety across multidisciplinary teams

This position is currently designated as hybrid and is subject to the Company's workplace attendance and in-office work requirements, as in effect from time to time. The Company reserves the right to modify these requirements at any time.

All information submitted with this application and disclosed in the interview and screening processes must be truthful.  The Company reserves the right in its sole discretion, to disqualify a candidate from consideration, withdraw a conditional offer of employment, or terminate employment, if it discovers a candidate provided false, misleading, or materially incomplete information during the application process.

VaynerX is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military status, veteran status, citizenship or immigration status (as permitted by applicable law), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Skills Required

  • 5-7+ years progressive experience in agency operations, management consulting, or marketing transformation
  • Demonstrated expertise managing complex client scopes (commercial mastery)
  • Systems architect mindset or Project COO orientation for building scalable operational frameworks
  • Fluency with AI-assisted agency workflows, modern project management tools (ClickUp, Google Workspace), and automated delivery systems
  • Expert-level understanding of social-first marketing, algorithm dynamics, Platforms & Culture, AEO/LLM discoverability, and creator ecosystems (CAIT)
  • Proven ability to interface with C-suite stakeholders, lead organizational redesign, and guide change management
  • Exceptional communication and human-centered leadership skills (kind candor, empathy, psychological safety)

VaynerMedia Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about VaynerMedia and has not been reviewed or approved by VaynerMedia.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off is considered broad, with substantial PTO and major holidays, and in some cases “unlimited” vacation policies. This breadth is often highlighted as a meaningful part of the overall package.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support is reinforced by a 401(k) with employer matching and accessible plan administration. Past matching contributions indicate tangible investment in employee savings.
  • Parental & Family Support Parental leave includes fully paid time for primary and secondary caregivers with a phased return-to-work period. These elements signal family-friendly support within the package.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
1,232 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

VaynerMedia is a global creative and media agency with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Singapore and Mexico City. We work differently because we’re built differently. We are consumer-centric, not boardroom-centric; We respect the internet's impact on culture, not Madison Avenue’s; We have the humility and curiosity to find what’s right, not to debate it for months on end; We are all practitioners; We scale the unscalable; We value real consumer signals; We create ideas consumer-up, not ego-down; We believe that it’s our responsibility to deliver business results for our clients.

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