Channel Manager

Little Dot Studios; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital content studio in Greater London is looking for a Channel Manager to execute channel strategies across social media. The ideal candidate will oversee performance metrics, plan content schedules, and maintain high editorial standards. This role emphasizes managing social media channels and requires a keen understanding of current cultural trends. The company offers flexible working arrangements and a variety of employee benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Mental health and wellbeing programmes

Enhanced parental leave

Office perks like free lunches

Digital nomad policy

Qualifications

• Experience of managing social media channels with a knowledge of social platforms.
• Ability to brainstorm creative content ideas.
• Can interpret basic analytics and reports.
• Basic understanding of client management principles.
• Knowledge of social media platform functions and best practices.
• Understanding of commercial opportunities for engagement.

Responsibilities

• Owning the channel strategy and ensuring peak performance.
• Planning channel schedules in accordance with strategy.
• Supervising video content editor tasks and quality assurance.
• Crafting creative video thumbnails and managing scheduling.
• Monitoring content performance with platform analytics.

Skills

Managing social media channels

Creative Strategy & Planning

Insights & Performance Reporting

Client Relationship Management

Platform Expertise

Project Management

Identifying Commercial Opportunities

Organisational Skills

Understanding of Memes

Job description

As a Channel Manager, you will be responsible for executing channel strategy (social media), ensuring growth across key metrics while maintaining editorial standards. This includes planning channel schedules, monitoring content performance, leveraging platform analytics and overseeing the delivery of high-quality assets to ensure best overall performance of the channels in their responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Owning the channel strategy and working with relevant stakeholders to ensure peak performance and growth across all key metrics.
• Planning and delivering channel schedules in accordance with the channel strategy and platform approaches.
• Day-to-day supervision of video content editor task allocation and delivery of editing and design assets, including quality assurance of the platform and appropriate tone of voice.
• Crafting creative video thumbnails and meta-data for content as provided by the video processing team, liaising with the edit studio to optimise thumbnail, and schedule content so that it is consistent across individual channels.
• Monitoring content performance using up to date insights and platform analytics, including any and all internal insights tools to improve performance.
• Working with internal stakeholders to ensure that each channel maintains the highest editorial standards, a strong and consistent voice and successful community engagement.
• Providing basic client communications, responding day to day tasks and emails, and liaising with Partnerships Manager on wider client project management.

Qualifications

• Skills matter, experience is useful, attitude is everything.
• Experience of managing social media channels, teamed with a knowledge of social platforms and approaches to video usage.
• Creative Strategy & Planning: Able to brainstorm simple content ideas with guidance.
• Insights & Performance Reporting: Can interpret basic analytics and reports, providing simple observations.
• Client Relationship Management: Has a basic understanding of client management principles.
• Platform Expertise: Understands basic social media platform functions and features, adhering to standard best practices.
• Project Management & Stakeholder Coordination: Understands basic project management principles, able to assist in coordinating tasks and timelines.
• Identifying Commercial Opportunities: Recognises basic commercial opportunities, such as minor improvements for engagement or simple revenue streams.
• Organisational Skills: An organisational mindset to navigate a variety of different content restrictions and policies day-to-day (with support and guidance from the wider team).
• Understanding of Memes: A good understanding of meme culture and current cultural moments that can inspire how we package video content (YouTube video titles and thumbnails).

We are proud to be an award winning, B Corp Certified workplace with employee wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. We offer hybrid and flexi-time working, mental health and wellbeing programmes, enhanced gender neutral parental leave, interest free financial support and a digital nomad policy that allows you to work from abroad in two one week blocks a year. Plus all the usuals such as pension contributions, annual leave and office perks like free lunches, socials, and health treatments! We're probably the biggest studio you didn't know was fuelling your favourite content. We've been one of the top dogs in the digital content space since 2013 (some would say, before its potential was even fully realised). We're proud to work with some of the hottest TV and movie studios, distributors, rights holders, sports federations and brands in the business.