Professional headshot of Elliott Taylor, a man with short brown hair in a black button-down shirt, softly blurred green foliage background.
Professional headshot of Elliott Taylor, a man with short brown hair in a black button-down shirt, softly blurred green foliage background.
Creative operations leader.
Creative operations leader.

Building systems for creative work at scale.

Building systems for

creative work at scale.

I'm a Creative operator who builds the operations that support creative work — the systems, processes, and team structure that enable it to run reliably at scale. Most creative bottlenecks aren't creative problems — they're operations problems nobody named.

I'm a Creative operator who builds the operations that support creative work — the systems, processes, and team structure that enable it to run reliably at scale. Most creative bottlenecks aren't creative problems — they're operations problems nobody named.

01

Creative Operations & Program Management

End-to-end workflow design, OKR management, cross-functional coordination

02

Team Leadership & Mentorship

Hiring, onboarding, role development, feedback culture design

03

Curatorial & Quality Standards

Defining "market-ready" as documented, repeatable standards.

04

DAM & Information Architecture

A 15,000+ piece archive with taxonomy a remote team could trust.

05

Stakeholder & Client Management

Fortune 500 commissions delivered end-to-end, expectations held.

06

Licensing & Product Systems

Turning original artwork into a repeatable revenue line.

CAPABILITIES

HOW I WORK

Make the implicit explicit

Most operational breakdowns aren't process failures — they're clarity failures. Unstated assumptions about goals, ownership, or constraints are usually where things fall apart.

Empathy is a practice, not a posture

I use it to hold people accountable — my team, my partners, myself. Directness and care aren't opposites.

Structure protects creativity

Creative work lives in ambiguity. My job is to bring enough structure to move, not so much that it calcifies. The simpler and more modular a system, the longer it stays useful as the work evolves around it.

Build a room that runs without me

Success is the people around me owning the work — the program holding its quality, pace, and margin after I've stepped back.

Ambiguity isn't solved, it's narrowed

When I hit ambiguity, I narrow fast — to what we know, what we think we know, and what we can control — and act from there.

CAPABILITIES

01

Creative Operations & Program Management

End-to-end workflow design, OKR management, cross-functional coordination.

02

Team Leadership & Mentorship

Hiring, onboarding, role development, feedback culture design.

03

Curatorial & Quality Standards

Defining "market-ready" as documented, repeatable standards.

04

DAM & Information Architecture

A 15,000+ piece archive with taxonomy a remote team could trust.

05

Stakeholder & Client Management

Fortune 500 commissions delivered end-to-end, expectations held.

06

Licensing & Product Systems

Turning original artwork into a repeatable revenue line.

HOW I WORK

Make the implicit explicit

Most operational breakdowns aren't process failures — they're clarity failures. Unstated assumptions about goals, ownership, or constraints are usually where things fall apart.

Empathy is a practice,

not a posture

I use it to hold people accountable — my team, my partners, myself. Directness and care aren't opposites.

Structure protects creativity

Creative work lives in ambiguity. My job is to bring enough structure to move, not so much that it calcifies. The simpler and more modular a system, the longer it stays useful as the work evolves around it.

Build a room that runs without me

Build a room that

runs without me

Success is the people around me owning the work — the program holding its quality, pace, and margin after I've stepped back.

Ambiguity isn't solved,

it's narrowed

When I hit ambiguity, I narrow fast — to what we know, what we think we know, and what we can control — and act from there.

Open to Creative & Design Operations roles.