Creator Content & Partnerships Director

washpost; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Washington Post is seeking a Creator Content & Partnerships Director to define and lead the operating strategy for the creator‑content portfolio, expanding reach, relevance, and commercial potential. You will establish editorial, partnership, production, and performance standards, govern creator‑led content, and approve decisions involving risk and investments.

Reporting to the President, Washington Post Creator, you’ll work across editorial, video, audience, product, sales, marketing,

Responsibilities

• Define the creator-content portfolio strategy and multiyear priorities.
• Establish editorial, ethical, brand-safety, quality, and performance standards.
• Direct creator partnerships, evaluate and renew relationships within financial parameters.
• Negotiate creator agreements with Legal on terms, IP, and deliverables.
• Oversee development and performance of creator-led series from concept to publication and evaluation.
• Develop creator and production budgets with Business Operations and balance portfolio spending.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Creator partnerships

Contract negotiation

Strategic thinking

Budget & resource planning

Job description

Join the future of news

We're on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you'll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.

About Our Team

The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning News and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.

Why This Role Matters

The Creator Content & Partnerships Director defines and leads the operating strategy for The Washington Post's creator-content portfolio, helping distinctive creators produce compelling work that expands The Post's reach, relevance, and commercial potential.

This role establishes the editorial, partnership, production, and performance standards that govern the creator program, ensuring creator-led content upholds The Post's commitment to quality, accuracy, ethics, and audience trust.

As the senior individual-contributor expert for creator content and partnerships, this role makes high-impact decisions across creator selection, content development, contract negotiation, production investment, distribution, and performance.

This role connects creative ambition with disciplined business execution, ensuring creator partnerships contribute to audience growth, engagement, revenue objectives, and the long-term strength of The Washington Post brand.

Working across editorial, video, audience, product, sales, marketing, events, communications, legal, finance, and business operations, this role establishes the direction, standards, and accountability needed to scale the creator-content portfolio.

Reporting to the President, Washington Post Creator, this role operates with significant independence and escalates decisions involving material financial, legal, editorial, or reputational risk.

What Motivates You

You are energized by building a creator-content portfolio that combines distinctive voices, editorial excellence, audience relevance, and commercial potential.

You enjoy defining new partnership and content models in an evolving creator marketplace.

You bring sound editorial and business judgment to decisions involving creators, content, contracts, production investments, and organizational risk.

You value trusted, long‑term relationships with creators, talent representatives, agencies, and internal partners.

You thrive at the intersection of editorial strategy, creative development, audience growth, talent partnerships, and business performance.

You enjoy transforming ambitious creative ideas into scalable programs with clear standards, decision rights, financial parameters, and measures of success.

You are comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and resolving competing editorial, creative, legal, operational, and commercial priorities.

You use audience insights, market developments, and performance data to challenge assumptions and improve content and partnership decisions.

You enjoy serving as a subject‑matter expert and helping colleagues, contractors, and partners build stronger creator‑content capabilities.

How You'll Support the Mission

Define the creator‑content portfolio strategy, operating model, multiyear priorities, translating organizational goals into scalable editorial, partnership, production, audience, and commercial plans.

Establish the editorial, ethical, brand‑safety, quality, and performance standards for creator content, serving as the final day‑to‑day approval authority and escalating only matters involving significant enterprise risk.

Direct the creator partnership portfolio by identifying, evaluating, selecting, renewing, and discontinuing relationships within established strategic and financial parameters, ensuring investments remain aligned with audience, brand, and business priorities.

Lead relationships with creators, talent representatives, managers, and agencies, building trusted partnerships that support creative excellence, clear accountability, and sustainable value for creators and The Post.

Negotiate creator agreements as the primary business representative, partnering with Legal on terms and redlines and resolving complex issues involving compensation, deliverables, intellectual property, usage rights, performance expectations, and partnership risk.

Oversee the development and performance of creator‑led series, shows, and content franchises from concept through production, publication, promotion, and evaluation, ensuring each investment delivers against defined editorial, audience, and commercial objectives.

Develop creator and production budgets with Business Operations, making portfolio‑level spending and resource tradeoffs that balance creative quality, growth opportunities, o