Head of Content
$150,000–$180,000 year
HybridLos Angeles, California, United States
Job Summary
Define a clear creative vision and strategic roadmap for content across all platforms, driving innovation to elevate existing shows and develop new, mission-aligned productions. Provide high-level guidance to department heads while empowering Senior Creatives to execute ideas efficiently, and mentor creative leaders to build their strategic and managerial capabilities. Implement a talent-first approach by supporting casting and post-production teams, leveraging industry networks to elevate productions. Define success metrics for shows and pilots, using YouTube analytics and audience insights to guide programming, distribution strategy, and iterative improvements. Own and manage creative budgets, collaborating with Finance, Brand Partnerships, and Analytics to optimize production costs, revenue streams, and resource allocation. Partner with HR on recruitment and work cross-functionally with Production and Brand teams to execute creative strategies effectively.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience in YouTube or adjacent digital content
- Capable of both ideation and execution
- Strategic thinking with the ability to prioritize effectively
- Balance risk with financial impact
- Make tough calls on what to scale, pause, or pivot
- Passionate about talent-first content creation
- Fostering team growth, mentorship, and empowerment
- Fluent in data-driven content strategy
- Audience insights
- Performance analytics
- Able to navigate multiple platforms
- Understanding trends across YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, and other digital channels
- Strong communicator
- Capable of translating creative vision into actionable plans for teams, executives, and stakeholders
- Experienced in managing budgets
- Resources
- Cross-department operations
- Practical understanding of ROI
- Production economics
- Flexible, adaptable, and unafraid to experiment, pivot, and iterate
- Keeping mission-aligned creative output at the forefront
- Committed to building inclusive and diverse creative work
- Reflecting the audiences Jubilee serves
- Local or ready to make the move
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