Senior Manager, Creator Team Strategy and Operations

Overview: 

Spotter, named one of TIME100's Most Influential Companies this year, empowers top YouTube creators to accelerate their business and unleash their full creative potential by giving them access to the capital, knowledge, and community they need to succeed at scale. As the top provider of creator-friendly growth capital, Spotter tailors our investments to meet the unique needs of each creator we partner with, giving them the freedom to create without compromise.

Creators are free to reinvest their funds however they choose, from hiring a team, to building their own production studios, and everything in between, all while maintaining total control over their catalogs, their channels, and their future earnings. In addition to funding, Spotter provides creators with in-depth data insights into the performance of their existing content, enabling them to leverage the full value of their library, as well as the value of future uploads and how they can improve performance in the future.

Featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Variety, Axios, and more, Spotter has already deployed over $850 million to YouTube creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth. Spotter has licensed content that consists of over 725,000 videos, which generate 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes. With our curated premium video catalog, we deliver a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient, and 100% brand safe.

What You’ll Do

Spotter is seeking a Senior Manager, Creator Team Strategy and Operations to work directly with the Creator Team. You will work with teams across Spotter to solve challenges, drive high priority projects, and achieve greater operational excellence within the Creator Team. You will set, track and ensure aligned goals between teams. You have experience in a strategic business management role, with a focus on facilitating executive-level decisions and driving collaboration.

You will lead both operational and strategic projects, be a trusted adviser, serve as a sounding board to inform and, if necessary, challenge decisions; apply several perspectives (creator and community). You have experience working with senior executives, a high level of business and financial knowledge, creator empathy, and the ability to work cross functionally.  You will manage, mentor and develop a team of direct reports.  The position is based in our Culver City headquarters.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop strategic programs, build business and cross-functional operational best-practices, and improve execution.
• Guide visible strategic projects for Spotter’s Creator Team including developing an understanding of our goals and competitive environment, and analyzing and optimizing the performance of current offerings
• Serve as project manager for important strategic initiatives and experiments, collaborating with internal product, marketing, partnership teams and third parties
• Identify solutions to the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the Creator teams as we serve our communities. As we grow, it will be increasingly important to identify opportunities to promote efficiency across our organization, ensure that both our services and teams can scale, and we are structured to promote maximum value for our business and communities.

Who You Are

This role is inherently cross-functional and involves working closely with our partnerships, sales, marketing, analytics, product management, and executive teams. A successful candidate will be intellectually curious, highly analytical, resourceful, customer focused, team oriented, communicative and will have the ability to work independently under time constraints. A self-starter who is able to prioritize and deliver on deadlines with minimal supervision, this person will have the ability to persuade and influence others. They will have a proven track record in successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.

Qualifications include:

• Bachelor's degree (MBA preferred) and at least 5 years of experience in content. partnerships, marketing or business development preferably within technology companies.
• Strong analytical skills and communication (written and verbal) skills. Ability to make complex subjects clear, easy to grasp, and compelling to consume.
• Project management skills with the ability to set goals and prioritize programs.
• Experience in a similar role, business management, corporate development or other collaborative leadership role.
• Proven success managing and mentoring a high performing team.
• Experience partnering with executives across an organization.
• Preferred: subject matter expertise i