Jobs at Flight Story

Owns end-to-end packaging strategy for The Diary Of A CEO across YouTube, audio, and emerging platforms. Leads title, thumbnail, metadata, and description development; runs A/B testing; analyzes CTR, retention, and Browse performance; optimizes the back catalog; protects editorial integrity; and feeds performance insights into editorial and production decisions.

Source and recruit exceptional talent for senior, critical, and owned searches from intake through accepted offer. Build market maps, proactively headhunt, use AI to improve sourcing, screen candidates, manage hiring stakeholders, maintain accurate ATS data, and deliver a fast, high-quality candidate experience. The role focuses on hiring for media, content, creative, and creator-economy positions while partnering closely with Heads of Talent Acquisition.

Leads FlightStory’s UK brand partnerships sales function, managing a team, revenue target, forecasting, pipeline, CRM, deal execution, and senior client relationships. Sells and renews podcast sponsorships, branded content, social campaigns, product collaborations, and emerging formats. Develops pricing and go-to-market strategies, partners with creative and global teams, and reports performance to leadership and creators.

Direct the short-form content business across FlightStory’s intellectual property and creator roster. Own strategy, P&L, revenue, platform relationships, content formats, production systems, creator onboarding, and a team of 7–8. Build recognisable brand worlds, develop scalable formats, lead monetisation through sponsorships and licensing, and use audience data to grow short-form franchises into standalone intellectual property and longer-form content.

Edit high-impact short-form clips, teasers, and shorts from long-form episodes for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and other social platforms. Identify compelling moments, optimize pacing and storytelling using performance analytics, add captions and motion graphics, and maintain brand quality. Collaborate with editorial, production, and brand teams while working quickly under tight deadlines. Stay current with social trends, platform algorithms, and emerging editing formats to maximize retention, engagement, shareability, and reach.

Create, publish, and optimize social-native content for The Diary of a CEO across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Develop carousels, visual posts, short-form clips, storytelling formats, host moments, and cultural commentary. Manage daily publishing and community engagement, identify trends, collaborate with editors, use performance data to refine content, and improve social content calendar workflows to increase engagement and long-form viewership.

Owns the complete editing process for Hot Smart Rich longform episodes, from initial assembly through final delivery. Shapes conversations into engaging stories using pacing, sound, music, graphics, archive, and visual storytelling. Collaborates with producers, creative and social teams, applies audience retention insights, maintains organized project files and version control, and ensures technically compliant publishing. The role also supports videography and photography while managing deadlines and improving workflows with new editing technologies and AI tools.

Own commercial and branded video productions from brief through delivery, coordinating shoots, talent, crews, editors, designers, feedback, timelines, and brand stakeholders. Support longform shows, packaging, and production workflows while maintaining creative and technical standards. Use performance data to guide decisions, identify process improvements, explore AI production tools, and mentor junior editors. The role requires strong editorial, technical, organizational, communication, and post-production skills in a fast-paced environment.

Owns the technical capture of The Diary of a CEO across picture, sound, lighting, switching, and multi-format delivery. Leads freelance production crews, maintains broadcast-grade standards, protects sensitive recording environments, and manages global production logistics. The role also requires post-production skills in video editing, sound mixing, and Photoshop, plus continuous improvement of capture workflows and technologies. Extensive international travel is required.

Create high-performance trailers and teasers from long-form interviews and episodes. Own the editing process from narrative development and assembly through sound design, music, B-roll preparation, experimentation, and final export. Use YouTube and TikTok performance data to optimize retention, pacing, and engagement, while integrating AI tools into editing workflows. Collaborate with creative, social, growth, commercial, and trailer teams, and support junior editors with systems and templates.

Edit weekly long-form podcast episodes from 9–13 camera angles, shaping engaging narratives that maximize audience retention and emotional impact. Manage multicam timelines, audio synchronization, project files, and production workflows. Collaborate with senior creatives, contribute to pre-production planning, research YouTube trends, respond to feedback, and share editing systems and best practices with the team.

Leads marketing strategy and multi-channel campaigns for The Diary of a CEO, driving audience growth, engagement, distribution, and revenue. Responsibilities include performance optimization, experimentation, team building, cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring content reaches audiences across platforms. The role is based in an in-person-first environment in Shoreditch, London.

Lead multi-channel marketing strategy for FlightStory’s products, shows, fund, and ventures. Own campaign planning, audience growth, performance optimization, experimentation, and go-to-market execution. Build and mentor a high-performing marketing team, use data to improve engagement and conversion, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver measurable audience and revenue growth.

Lead FlightStory’s marketing engine for creator-led podcasts and shows. Grow audiences, convert platform reach into owned email, CRM, and community audiences, and use first-party data to improve campaigns. Build guest acquisition campaigns, develop community and event growth channels, secure brand partnerships, and establish a fast test-and-learn culture. Manage Heads of Marketing and build a lean, high-performing marketing function while balancing strategic leadership with hands-on execution.

Manage and grow FlightStory’s social media channels across Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Shorts. Develop content strategies, optimize performance using analytics and platform insights, increase audience engagement, and maximize monetization opportunities for shows and creators. The role requires strong social media growth expertise, content judgment, trend awareness, and the ability to balance creative decisions with data-driven strategy.

Own internal creator technology products end-to-end, from discovery and specification through prototyping, launch, adoption, and iteration. Identify workflow inefficiencies, build AI-native tools using LLMs, agentic workflows, generative media, and retrieval, and measure success through adoption, time savings, retired workflows, and revenue impact. Partner with engineering, applied AI, and data teams while supporting creative, commercial, production, audience, and ventures workflows.

Lead US deal sourcing and pipeline development for a venture fund focused on consumer and prosumer technology. Responsibilities include founder outreach, technical and commercial diligence, sector analysis, investment committee memos, financial modeling, cap table analysis, valuation, term sheet negotiation, portfolio company support, board participation, LP relations, fundraising, and CRM management.

Lead European investment activity for Fund II, including sourcing Series A and growth-stage opportunities, managing end-to-end diligence, preparing investment memos, participating in investment committee decisions, managing reserves and follow-on investments, building founder relationships, taking board seats, supporting LP relationships and fundraising, and developing junior investment staff.

Lead development and scaling of a global community for The Diary of a CEO. Design digital spaces and in-person experiences (meet-ups, events, clubs, retreats), activate member-led initiatives, gather community feedback into content and products, measure impact with qualitative and quantitative signals, and create repeatable systems and blueprints to scale community across FlightStory shows.

Produce, shoot, and edit high-impact short-form social content for a high-profile founder. Optimize clips for engagement and platform algorithms, add captions and motion graphics, iterate using performance data, collaborate with the storytelling team, and travel globally to capture content.