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
As a Senior Creative Strategist, you’ll sit within Acast Creative, our award-winning in-house team. You’ll shape and deliver standout branded content campaigns that live across audio, video and beyond, from idea through to execution with our roster of podcasters. That includes ideating original and exciting branded content ideas - building them into compelling pitch decks, directing shoots with talent, and ensuring Acast Creative delivers the best output possible for audiences and brands alike.

You’ll lead large-scale campaigns end to end, creating ideas that resonate with both audiences and brands, crafting high-quality Google Slides responses, and bringing them to life by owning the creative across production. From writing treatments and directing talent to collaborating with internal teams and external partners.

You will be responsible for ensuring positive and productive collaborations with internal teams, developing strong working relationships with creators, clients and production partners, as well as maintaining a high standard of output through our campaigns.

What you'll do

• Develop market-leading ideas in response to branded content partnership briefs, built around podcasts across the Acast network.

• Work with our Brand Partnerships team to manage campaigns through to delivery, including writing treatments, social frameworks, liaising with creators and production teams, and directing shoots, ensuring all deliverables are delivered on time and to a high standard.

• Collaborate with other members of the Acast Creative team to shape and activate branded-content pitches and campaigns.

• Be available to direct podcast productions or activate branded content campaigns sold by the wider team.

• Work with Brand Partnerships and the Sales team to ensure creative resources are used efficiently.

• Work with external partners on development and production, ensuring internal Acast Creative resources and shared folders are kept up to date.

• Identify new formats, campaign types, and opportunities for Acast Creative to activate in, and introduce them into our ways of working.

• Contribute to improving ways of working, ensuring we continue to evolve how we operate internally and with external partners.

• Present internally, to clients, and at industry events on the creative possibilities within podcasting.

• Support the growth of Acast Creative as the home of creative excellence for brands, working alongside senior team members to help shape direction.

Who you are

• Someone with 2+ years experience of leading on the conception of creative ideas that are used to win client briefs

• You have a strong understanding of what makes effective ‘branded content’ specifically, and how to best work with creators to shape ideas that feel like a natural extension of their usual output, rather than traditional ads.

• You're a regular podcast listener who understands why the medium is so popular, and why podcast fans form such close relationships with their hosts.

• You have a solid understanding of the podcast ecosystem and a strong awareness of the cultural zeitgeist.

• You are confident working independently but also within a fast-paced team environment.

• You are comfortable directing talent, and taking ownership of a set.

• You would a strong confidence in your ability to create compelling responses to briefs, with sharp insights and detailed idea laydowns.

Location

While we operate with a high degree of trust and flexibility, the expectation for this role is to be in our London office for at least two days a week. Outside of this, you can work remotely, but the office remains open for those who prefer to come in full-time.

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!