About the role
Director of Operations
Lakewood, NJ
$200,000 - $275,000
Our client, a growing product marketing company, is seeking a Director of Operations to help bring its strong departments together and ensure teams work efficiently toward shared goals.
This role will help prioritize workflows, improve communication and handoffs, and create greater alignment across departments. The ideal candidate is an organized, approachable leader who can make thoughtful decisions, manage competing priorities, and build strong relationships across teams. This is a hands on management role with meaningful cross functional responsibility and the potential to grow into a broader operations leadership position.
Responsibilities:
• Oversee coordination between marketing, sales, product, creative, production, fulfillment, and other core departments.
• Establish clear priorities, timelines, responsibilities, and handoffs across teams.
• Ensure departments are aligned and working toward shared company goals.
• Identify operational challenges and resolve issues before they impact deadlines or launches.
• Help leadership determine priorities and sequence work across campaigns, products, production, inventory, and fulfillment.
• Manage competing resources, deadlines, and priorities while making thoughtful tradeoffs.
• Hold teams accountable to commitments while maintaining a positive and collaborative environment.
• Build relationships across departments and understand how each team operates before making changes.
• Improve processes where work is duplicated, delayed, or unclear without disrupting departments that are already performing well.
• Monitor launches, campaigns, and production cycles to ensure quality and deadlines are met.
• Provide leadership with clear visibility into progress, risks, and decisions that need to be made.
