Salary: 90 000 - 120 000 + bonuses
Contract: full time
LOCATION: Remote, based in the UK with the ability to commute to London or Nottingham regularly
Information on the company
Our client is a serial entrepreneur who built a software company from the ground up: starting from nothing and scaling it to over £50 million in total revenue, becoming the most recognised figure in their industry. For a decade, they ran the business end-to-end: creating content, investing millions in paid advertising, and building a community of tens of thousands of paying subscribers. The company was sold for an eight-figure sum in 2024.
In 2025, they turned their focus to their own personal brand, applying that same decade of content expertise to build over half a million followers across all channels in just over a year. The content they share is practical and grounded: real strategies on building wealth through social media and entrepreneurship, drawn from genuine experience rather than theory or motivation.
Now they're building what comes next. At the centre of it is a SaaS platform designed for creators to sell products and subscriptions on repeat. Think Shopify meets Kajabi, built for the creator economy. Alongside that, a co-working and creator accelerator community, and an expanding content operation with plans for YouTube, a podcast, and much more.
This is a media and technology group at its very earliest stages - a highly engaged audience, a proven brand, and a long road ahead. They're looking for people who want to be here at the start: to help scale from half a million followers to many millions, build profitable companies, and help a great many people genuinely change their lives.
A note on the helicopter
Our client owns a helicopter. This is not a metaphor. It's an actual helicopter, and it's available to the production. Whether that means recording episodes in the air, filming B-roll from 1,000 feet, flying guests in for interviews, or doing something genuinely unexpected that nobody has done in podcasting before, we don't know yet. That's partly your job to figure out. If you're the kind of person who reads "helicopter" and immediately starts generating ideas rather than questions about insurance, you might be the right person for this role.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Show strategy and concept
Own the creative direction of the podcast from the ground up: format, tone, cadence, positioning, and how it sits within the wider content operation
Define what makes this show worth listening to: what angle, what voice, what guests, what structure distinguishes it in a crowded market
Build a guest pipeline that reflects the brand: founders, operators, creators, and people who've actually built things rather than talked about building them
Think about the show as a business asset: what builds trust, what drives conversions, what earns loyal listeners who act
Identify where the helicopter fits and have the creative courage to use it
Production ownership
Run the full production pipeline from booking through to publish: briefing guests, running recording sessions, managing editors, and maintaining quality at volume
Ensure recording days, whether studio, remote, or airborne, are planned, efficient, and energising rather than chaotic
Own distribution hygiene: episode titles, descriptions, chapter marks, show notes, thumbnails, scheduling, and cross-platform syndication
Build repeatable systems that make consistent publishing feel calm and sustainable, not heroic
Audio and platform mastery
Live in the analytics: completion rates, drop-off curves, subscriber growth, and traffic sources, and translate all of it into clear creative decisions
Understand how podcasting intersects with YouTube, short-form clips, and social distribution: think in clips, think in threads, think in moments
Know the platforms natively, not just as a marketer but as someone who actually listens to a lot of podcasts and thinks about them instinctively
Own packaging: episode titles and artwork that determine whether a show reaches 10,000 listeners or 100,000
Guest experience and commercial integration
Make guests feel prepared, comfortable, and genuinely glad they said yes, especially the ones arriving by helicopter
Manage the publishing calendar with an eye on commercial commitments and sponsorship windows
Write and oversee sponsor integrations that feel native rather than jarring, and that never compromise the creative integrity of the show
AI and systems
Use AI tools actively and intelligently to make the operation faster and smarter: transcription, clipping, show notes, analytics, workflow automation
Build systems that compound so that the longer you're here, the more efficient and effective the operation becomes
The ideal candidate…
Proven experience building or running a podcast at a senior level, ideally launching one from scratch or growing an established show significantly
Deep, native understanding of audio and video podcasting. You've listened for years, you think about format instinctively, and you have opinions about what separates great shows from forgettable ones
A systems thinker who builds processes that scale rather than someone who relies on heroics to hit deadlines
Data fluency: you know which metrics matter, which are vanity, and most importantly what to do about it
Someone who understands that great content converts trust into action, not just streams
AI-forward: genuinely excited about using tools to get an edge, and fast to implement them
Unbothered by ambiguity. You're being asked to build something that doesn't exist yet, and that should excite rather than unsettle you
Great energy. The kind of person who makes the room feel more creative, especially on the days when recording feels like a chore, and doubly so when the room is a helicopter
Why work here?
Serial founder: built and sold an eight-figure startup, bootstrapping this business from the proceeds
Founding team impact: you'll define the podcast from the ground up, format, architecture, quality bar, the lot
Your voice is genuinely valued: this role is viewed as critical to launch and long-term success, not a nice-to-have
High ownership and autonomy: a seat at the table, not just a seat in the edit suite
Speed and closeness to implementation: direct collaboration with the founder means fast feedback loops and real impact
Tools and equipment: the budget you need to do the job properly
A helicopter: access to a genuinely unusual creative asset that most podcast directors will never get near
Interview process
Stage 1 Zoom interview (30–60 mins)
Portfolio reviewed early. Conversational format; time is flexible if deep discussion is useful.Stage 2 Short creative task (1 -2 hour)
Respectful, lightweight, and skills-based. May be delivered via short doc or Loom-style explanation.Stage 3 In-person meeting (lunch, ~1–1.5 hours)
Deeper alignment on creative thinking, collaboration style, and ways of working.