Hands-On, Genre-Savvy Head of Content Wanted for Audio Storytelling Platform
Comp range: $200,000 to $300,000 base per year (depending on experience) + bonus + equity potential
Are You the Missing Piece?
One of the world’s fastest-growing audio-series platforms is building the next binge economy, and they need a hands-on Head of Content to run the creative engine.
This is an audio-first, genre-driven role overseeing a high-volume slate of long-form audio series across romance (soap opera), crime/thriller, fantasy, and of course, romantasy (y‘know, sexy vampires). You’ll adapt validated international IP (from Korea, China, Japan, India, and beyond, along with UGC), shape original content sourced from self-publishing and ghost-written worlds, and turn it all into mobile-first audio that people can’t stop listening to.
You’ll manage writers’ rooms and creative leads, make greenlight and kill calls, and own how stories are structured, produced, launched, and optimized. This is not about marketing IP, it’s about making the shows work and repeating winning processes. This means you think critically about how you take one win from one genre and apply it successfully to others. Equally important is how you think about what happens in handoffs i.e. you get the IP, now how do you formulate a winning process to make the IP into great, compelling audio content?
They’re looking for someone hungry, genre-savvy, experimental, and comfortable living in the data without killing the creative spark. Major plus if you’re cool being in a luxe office in LA 5 days a week, but there is flexibility for the right talent.
What’s it going to take to score an interview?
- You’ve owned a high-volume content slate end-to-end, running multiple concurrent shows with direct accountability for performance, not just development and you can speak to metrics
- Proven impact on retention and completion through creative decisions (story structure, episode length, cadence, cliffing)
- Clear command of weekly performance metrics and how they drive greenlight, pivot, and kill decisions
- Hands-on experience running writers’ rooms at scale, including hiring, feedback loops, velocity management, and quality control
- Demonstrated adaptation of existing IP into a new format (web novel → audio, book → series, international → US) with editorial ownership
- Genre fluency in at least one core binge category (romance, crime/thriller, romantasy, fantasy) and the ability to articulate what hooks in the first 3–5 episodes
- Comfort killing or substantially reworking shows you personally liked when the data didn’t justify continuation
- Experience partnering deeply with analytics, growth, and product to adjust the actual content itself, not just marketing or positioning
- Track record of scaling output quickly (new market, new format, aggressive growth phase) while making smart tradeoffs
- Practical use of AI in creative workflows (ideation, outlining, drafting, localization) with clear leadership guardrails
- You’re not intimidated by ambiguity or experimentation, and you want a seat where your instincts, taste, and judgment genuinely shape what gets made — and what becomes a hit.
You should take this meeting because …
You want real ownership over creative decisions, team direction, and performance outcomes. Plus, you’re energized by environments where content success is visible, measurable, and directly tied to the business. If you thrive in high-velocity settings with multiple shows running at once, love engineering binge behavior, and get excited by adapting international IP for new audiences, then this is the gig for you. If you’ve been waiting for a Head of Content role that’s hands-on, high bar, and high upside, this is the conversation to have.
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