Title: Creator Lead

Reports to: Director of Audience Engagement

Compensation: $90k-$105k/year

Employment Type: Salaried, full time

Location: Remote

About MPU

More Perfect Union is an advocacy, journalism, and education organization with a mission to build power for the working class. Since launching in February 2021, More Perfect Union’s Emmy award-winning coverage has garnered 6 million followers and subscribers, and we are the fastest growing left-of-center YouTube channel. 

About the Position

More Perfect Union is seeking a highly motivated and creative individual to join our team as Creator Lead. The Creator Lead will spearhead our rapidly growing contributor program and play a key role in developing our strategy for identifying and cultivating new talent. They must have strong editorial judgement and social media skills, understand More Perfect Union’s mission, and be excited about building a bench of creators and influencers to build power for working people.

The Creator Lead will act as the primary point of contact for our network of creators. They will work with creators to sharpen their production skills, develop pitches, and produce compelling vertical videos each week that connect with a broad audience and expand MPU’s reach. Additionally, they will be responsible for discovering new creators to work with MPU and establish a talent development process to allow creators to progressively strengthen their partnership with us.

Core Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with MPU leadership, identify opportunities in the news cycle to collaborate with creators and produce content with substantive and original angles on current topics;
• Oversee production of 2-3 original vertical videos by creators per week, including: evaluating incoming pitches; workshopping scripts; and drafting engaging social media copy to complement these videos;
• Ensure a high standard for accuracy, timeliness, and relevance to MPU’s audience for all creator-driven content;
• Discover and develop new creator talent who can produce compelling content aligned with MPU’s editorial goal;
• Train and mentor new and existing creators in best practices for video production, editorial alignment, storytelling and other key skills; 
• Manage and negotiate contracts, overseeing all influencer-related communication;
• Collaborate with the social media team on distribution strategy for creator videos, including identifying crossposting opportunities;
• Maintain a database of active and prospective MPU collaborators; 
• Analyze and report out contributor content metrics, including impact on MPU’s audience growth and viewership, on a weekly basis; 
• Complete assignments from supervisor and colleagues and meet deadlines;
• Manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously and operate in a fast-moving environment; 
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience managing creator talent as part of an agency, campaign, newsroom and/or advocacy organization;
• Excellent writing and copyediting skills and experience scripting and producing compelling, news-centric vertical video content for social media platforms;
• Deep interest in and knowledge of issues related to economic justice, U.S. politics, labor rights, corporate accountability, and related topics;
• Understanding of best practices, algorithms, and metrics of major social media platforms, including Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and demonstrated experience growing social media pages; 
• Working knowledge of video editing and graphics tools such as Adobe Premiere, Canva and in-app software; 
• Familiarity with social media management and analytics tools such as Sprout Social and RivalIQ is a plus;
• Exceptional organizational skills and ability to manage many priorities at once; 
• Ability to work independently in a remote, work-from-home environment.

At More Perfect Union we strive to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in all elements of our work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), age, physical or mental disability, post-secondary educational status, citizenship, genetic information, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented and marginalized communities to apply.

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