Creator Manager

About Acast
Since 2014, Acast has been building the world’s most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast creators, advertisers, and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts, 3,300 advertisers, and one billion quarterly listens. Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen—across any podcast app or listening platform.

About the role

We are looking for a driven, organized and experienced Creator Manager to join our Content department in Canada, supporting our most prestigious creators in their long-term growth.

You’ll be responsible for supporting our high-level shows with their revenue and audience growth strategies. You’ll do this with bespoke strategies covering audience growth, content ideation, product adoption and by working closely via a two-way feedback loop with our sales, creative and brand partnerships teams. You’ll support creators with their podcast strategy across the platforms they choose to distribute and monetize on - from Apple Podcasts and Spotify to YouTube and Instagram, and more.

In your daily work you’ll apply a data-driven approach, be able to demonstrate a sensitivity to commercial opportunities and brands, an appreciation of the rapidly evolving podcast landscape, as well as an instinct for how to promote podcasts and a strong passion for podcasting yourself. You will be responsible for elevating your creators to our sales and marketing teams, equipping them with all the information they need. And you will act as a consultant for our product and marketing teams - advising them on creator needs and collaborating on campaigns.

You’ll be trusted to manage and lead a roster of the most well-loved and in-demand shows in the Canadian Market, and you’ll be the first point of contact for their high level questions as well as attending events to support them - so we’re looking for someone who is service-minded with a passion for establishing and nurturing valuable relationships.

What you'll do

• Manage high-level relationships with current and future creators, producers, networks and publishers.

• Identify areas for audience growth which includes identifying, approaching, pitching to and signing new content partners to Acast, as well as developing new podcasting talent and formats.

• Negotiate contractual relationships with content providers (i.e. independent podcasters, talent agents/managers, networks).

• Work with these creators on bespoke strategies to grow their revenue and audience through various methods covering marketing, content ideation, product adoption and by working closely with our sales, marketing teams and creative brand partnerships teams.

• Ensure that the sales teams locally and globally have all the information they need to best monetize your creators’ shows.

• Guide and assist content partners with integration into our systems.

• Maintain internal tracking documents, as necessary.

• Liaise and consult with other internal teams, such as product, legal, comms.

• Support branded content sales initiatives where required.

• Create and present regular partnership review meetings with creators.

• Ad hoc projects as required.

Who you are

• You are commercially-minded with a good understanding of content, audience growth and the media landscape.

• You have exceptional verbal and written interpersonal, relationship management, communication, and problem-solving skills.

• You enjoy working in a fast paced environment, are highly organized, detail-oriented and capable of managing many different projects at once.

• You’re a team player who is collaborative, creative, highly motivated and a real self-starter.

• Experience working directly with talent, creators and agents is ideal.

• Ability to build a pipeline and negotiate agreements.

• Previous experience in creator or branded partnerships, production, journalism, digital media, marketing is a plus.

• Tech savviness is a plus

• Passionate about podcasting!

Culture

Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy, continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We’re global and have remote teams, so it’s even more important that we strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome.

We consider ourselves a modern organization driven by strong values to create the best, most fulfilling and nurturing culture.

We very much look forward to finding the next great person to join our cause!