Studio Manager

Who are we?

We are the originators of influencer marketing.

Influencer is an agency built at the intersection of creativity, data, and technology with a unique ‘people power & platform power’ approach.

From big brand launches to shifting perceptions and from riding fast trends to driving footfall, Influencer builds ideas with impact to deliver outcomes that drive your business forward via an unmatched client experience.

Campaigns are underpinned by Influencer’s game-changing proprietary technologies, which are supercharged by official partnerships and data integrations with the world’s leading social platforms for real-time and accurate reporting. Influencer is an Official Global Marketing Partner of both TikTok and Meta.

We believe the more tangible, scaled outcomes that creators produce drive impact beyond just likes and impressions. Influencer is championing the ‘True Human Influence’ movement; on a mission for creator campaigns to be judged in the same way as other media activations.

Founded by OG YouTube creator Caspar Lee & entrepreneur Ben Jeffries, Influencer has been helping brands navigate the ever-evolving influencer marketing landscape since 2015. In that time they have developed valuable knowledge, experience, and technology that have enabled them to deliver thousands of campaigns, for hundreds of brands in markets across the world. Today, Influencer has a team of 120+ of the best talent in the industry, working across Europe, North America, and the Middle East. From Google to Coca-Cola, from Amazon to Microsoft, and from TikTok to Meta - they work with companies, brands, and agencies across every vertical, building meaningful relationships between brands, creators, and their audiences.

Job Title

Studio Manager (Video Production, Editing and Design)

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the VP, Strategy

Overview of the job

We’re looking for a hyper organised and creative individual to manage our content production pipeline and lead our talented team of designers and video editors. As the driving force behind efficient workflows, high-quality content production, and the successful delivery of multiple projects, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that our team works effectively and meets our project deadlines. This role demands a strong understanding of content production, project management, and content performance analysis, as well as excellent communication and leadership skills.

3 best things about the job

• You will be part of a friendly and collaborative team, made up of high-performing, motivated individuals.
  

• You will be managing a small production team that is growing quickly, with the opportunity to grow and shape the team to deliver a hugely varied type of output.
  

• Varied workload creating cutting edge social content that resonates with audiences for some of the worlds biggest global brands to be distributed across all social platform.

Measures of success – In the first few months, you would have:

• A proactive approach in building a good relationship with internal stakeholders and have a detailed understanding of the opportunity for content production across each line of business
  

• Revamped our production delivery process (across video and graphic design), mapping out the connections with additional internal teams to create processes that work cross-functionally
  

• Have built an understanding of functions and processes within adjacent Impact Studio teams, and begun monitoring capacity and bandwidth levels with a view to process improvements to follow.
  

• Got up to speed with industry trends, platform relationships, updates and best practices.

• Formalised a roster of go to freelancers to manage seasonal shifts in our production pipeline

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Production Pipeline & Project Management: Oversee the entire production pipeline, from briefing to delivery, optimising workflows and ensuring timely execution of projects. Balance internal and external freelance resources effectively to meet project demands, while also tracking bandwidth and capacity across the team.
  

• Studio Operations: Work closely with leads from across adjacent teams to increase efficiency and standardise delivery processes and practices (a focus on strategy, creative, media, measurement and insight functions).
  

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams (most often client service, commercial, and marketing) to scope projects, align on timelines, and allocate resources for optimal delivery.
  

• Platform Innovation: Be responsible for keeping on top of content format best practice from across multiple social platforms, with a particular focus on TikTok. Stay on top of industry trends and user behaviours that can be utilised to increase performance of content produced.
  

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead and upskill the team, across both graphic design and video production, providing opportunities for training as well as identifying skill gaps to make recommendations on the future growth of the team.
  

• Performance Analysis: Work closely with the measurement and media teams to evaluate the performance of assets produced, feeding learnings into our own best practice knowledge bank to be shared across internal teams.
  

• Tech Stack Ownership: Keep on top of the latest tools and resources available to increase the quality and efficiency of assets delivered, making recommendations where appropriate around for new

What you will need:

• Several years experience running a production pipeline within a digital or social content business.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to liaise effectively with clients and team members.

• Data-driven mindset, with the ability to analyse and act on performance metrics

• Demonstrated ability to scope projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders, map out delivery roadmaps and continually optimise both.

• Organised, meticulous about meeting KPIs with excellent attention to detail.

• Experience with social content is a must-have, and experience within the influencer marketing industry is a nice-to-have.

A few of our core benefits:

• Private Healthcare through Vitality

• Wellbeing support through Vitality including EAP & Mental Health cover

• 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Bank Holidays which can be flexed to your needs)

For more information on our benefits, perks and what makes us unique, please visit our website here

At Influencer, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion. We promote DEI in our workplace and are a global community who believe our unique qualities should be celebrated. We want everyone at Influencer to bring their authentic selves to work everyday, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We are committed to embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion into everything we do at Influencer, making it part of our culture. All we ask is that you have a passion for Influencer Marketing and a desire to be a part of one of the fastest growing companies within this exciting industry.