Content Manager

Acast; Benito Juárez; Presencial; MXN 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Acast in Mexico City is seeking a Creator Partnerships & Development Manager to own the relationship lifecycle with creators, from identifying and signing new talent to growing revenue and audience.

You'll collaborate with sales, marketing, and brand partnerships to monetize top shows, guide partners through integration, and drive local and global campaigns while maintaining strong partner relations.

Formación

• Experience with creators, agents, or branded partnerships preferred.
• Strong negotiation and closing skills.
• Advanced English proficiency; fluent in Spanish.

Responsabilidades

• Identify, approach, pitch to, and sign new content partners; independent podcasters, talent agents/managers, production companies, and networks.
• Negotiate contractual relationships with content providers.
• Build and manage a pipeline of prospective partners.
• Establish and oversee high-level relationships with current and future content partners.
• Develop bespoke revenue- and audience-growth strategies with creators with cross-functional collaboration.
• Ensure internal teams have the information needed to monetize creators' shows.
• Act as a consultant to product and marketing teams on creator needs and campaigns.
• Support branded content sales initiatives where required.
• Guide partners through integration into our systems and maintain tracking meetings.

Conocimientos

Negotiation

Content Partnerships

Relationship Management

Proactive

Educación

University degree or equivalent

Descripción del empleo

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 Partnerships & Development Manager to join our Content department in Mexico. You'll own the full relationship lifecycle with creators, from identifying and signing new talent to growing the revenue and audience of our most prestigious shows. You'll apply a data-driven approach, a sensitivity to commercial opportunities and brands, an appreciation of the rapidly evolving podcast landscape, and a strong passion for podcasting yourself. You'll be trusted to manage a roster of the most well-loved and in-demand shows in Mexico, acting as the first point of contact for high-level questions, negotiations, and growth strategy alike.

What you'll do

Content Development

• Identify, approach, pitch to, and sign new content partners; independent podcasters, talent agents/managers, production companies, and networks, including developing new podcasting talent and formats.
• Negotiate contractual relationships with content providers.
• Build and manage a pipeline of prospective partners.

Creator & Partnership Management

• Establish and oversee high-level relationships with current and future content partners, both publishers and independent podcasters, with support from the Associate Partner Manager.
• Develop bespoke strategies with creators to grow their revenue and audience covering marketing, content ideation, product adoption in close collaboration with our sales, marketing, and brand partnerships teams.
• Ensure local and global sales teams have all the information they need to best monetize your creators' shows.
• Act as a consultant to product and marketing teams, advising on creator needs and collaborating on campaigns.
• Support branded content sales initiatives where required.

Operations

• Guide and assist content partners with integration into our systems, alongside the Customer Support team and Associate Partner Manager.
• Maintain internal tracking documents as necessary.
• Create and lead regular partnership review meetings with creators.
• Liaise and consult with other internal teams such as product, legal, and comms.

Who you are

• Proficient knowledge of and genuine interest in the Mexico podcast market and creator industry.
• Commercially minded, with a strong understanding of content, audience growth, and the media landscape.
• Pitching, presentation, negotiation, and problem-solving skills; able to build a pipeline and close agreements.
• Exceptional verbal and written interpersonal, relationship management, and communication skills.
• Advanced English proficiency, both spoken and written. All intercompany communications are conducted in English.
• Proactive, highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple projects at once while still seeing the big picture.
• A collaborative, creative, highly motivated team player and self-starter, comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working directly with talent, creators, and agents is ideal, including negotiating with agents, lawyers, and managers.
• Prior experience in creator or branded partnerships, production, journalism, digital media, or marketing is a plus.
• Tech savviness is a plus.
• University degree or equivalent (preferred but not essential).
• Passionate about podcasting!

Location

While we do operate with a high degree of trust and flexibility for our employees, the expectation for this role is to be present in our Mexico City office, at least three times a week. Candidates should be within a commutable distance to accommodate this schedule.

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!