Team Lead, Programming, Editorial & Marketing, Europe (Temporary Contract)
London, UK
Content & Programming – Europe /
Fixed Term /
Vevo is the world's leading music video network, connecting an ever-growing global audience to high quality music video content for more than a decade. Founded by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in 2009, Vevo offers fans worldwide a vast array of premium content to choose from, showcasing official music videos alongside a constantly developing lineup of live performances and innovative original programming. From top superstars to rising new talents, Vevo brings incomparable cross-promotional support to artists across the musical spectrum, at every stage of their careers.
Vevo has consistently evolved over the past decade to lead within today's ever-changing media landscape, embracing partnerships with a number of leading distribution platforms to deliver extraordinary content within ad-supported environments. With more than 25B views across television, desktop and mobile devices each month, Vevo brings music videos to the world – when, where, and how fans want them.
We’re looking for a Team Lead to join Vevo as part of the Editorial, Programming & Marketing team in Europe. This is a 1 year fixed term maternity cover role who will be responsible for a team of programmers that work across multiple European regions and will lead on programming, editorial and marketing initiatives, with a focus on Connected TV, YouTube and social media.This role will be a key part of the European Content & Programming team with room for making your mark and bringing your ideas and initiative to the table.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of programmers and editors that operate across different EU markets
- Manage the team workload and priorities, ensuring deadlines are met and content is executed at a high standard
- Lead on the content strategy for EU CTV linear and YouTube programming, identifying editorial opportunities on a EU/Global level and guiding the team on local ones
- Lead on social strategy for the EU and work closely with US Marketing Director
- Monitor EU editorial team goals and take action accordingly
- Collaborate with US Partnerships team on linear expansion and new channel opportunities
- Work with product team to be up to speed with updates on programming tools, communicate to EU team accordingly
- Work with US programming team and US marketing team on global campaigns both for Vevo originals and cultural initiatives
- Create compelling marketing plans for EU Original content franchises, collaborate with wider team to ensure execution
- Collaborate with EU C&P team on cross-department projects and be up to speed with updates that affect the editorial team
This Describes You:
- You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- You have a strong desire to solve problems, learn new things, and can multitask; and to motivate others to do the same
- You have the ability to recognize music trends and viewer habits across Europe
- You have a strong passion for music of different genres, popular culture and trends
- You are tech savvy and understand CMS and other content programming tools
Requirements:
- At least 3 years experience with managing an international team
- Experience in a media/entertainment company in a creative, content based role
- Good understanding of different European music markets
- Knowledge of the YouTube environment and Connected Television space and all innovation currently happening within it
- Good understanding of social media
- Additional spoken language preferred (Spanish, Italian, French or German)
