Content Manager

Acast; Tecámac; Presencial; MXN 900.000 - 1.200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Acast in Mexico City is seeking a driven Creator Partnerships & Development Manager to own the full lifecycle with creators, from identifying talent to growing revenue and audience for our top shows.

You will negotiate contracts, build a partner pipeline, and collaborate with sales, marketing and brand partnerships to monetize content; you will guide creators through our systems and ensure strategic growth in a fast-paced podcast landscape.

Formación

• Experience building creator partnerships and monetization strategies.
• Strong negotiation and deal-structuring skills.
• Ability to manage multiple partners and projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

Responsabilidades

• Identify, approach, pitch to, and sign new content partners.
• Negotiate contractual relationships with content providers.
• Build and manage a pipeline of prospective partners.
• Establish high-level relationships with current and future content partners.
• Develop bespoke strategies with creators to grow revenue and audience.
• Ensure sales teams have information to monetize shows.
• Guide content partners through integration into our systems.
• Create and lead regular partnership review meetings.
• Liaise with product, legal, and communications teams.

Conocimientos

Creator partnerships

Negotiation

Relationship management

Content development

Project management

English proficiency

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!