Managing Director, Sponsorship Products & Creative
Managing Director, Sponsorship Products & Creative
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OVERVIEW
A thriving mission-driven multimedia organization NPR produces award-winning news information and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. The NPR audience values information creativity curiosity and social responsibility and our employees do too. We are innovators and leaders in diverse fields from journalism and digital media to IT and development. Every day our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide.
Across our organization were building a workplace where collaboration is essential diverse voices are heard and inclusion is the key to our success. We are committed to doing the right thing in our journalism and in every role at NPR.This means that integrity adherence to our ethical standards and compliance with legal obligations are fundamental responsibilities for every employee at NPR.
Intro To Position
The Managing Director of NPM Creative leads a collaborative team of innovators that builds custom sponsorship activations tells the stories of NPRs most high-value brand partners and manages sponsorship product integrations across NPRs digital platforms. This executive role will drive revenue growth by partnering with teams across NPM and NPR to create new sponsorship opportunities and evangelize the teams high-caliber creative work. This person will lead and collaborate with the sales teams on pitches and build relationships with creative leads at agencies and brands.
The NPM Creative team is the creative and product development team within NPM managing a broad range of products and responsibilities. This team produces custom audio and visual creative for brands conducts and analyzes creative research and manages ad tech integrations on the NPR App and NPRs newsletters. The team approaches all of its work with mindful attention to NPRs ethics and values and prioritizes transparency and accuracy in its content creation.
As a manager this role should serve as a coach and advocate for a high-performing team with extensive experience. They should be collaborative and open to feedback while providing clear direction and goals for the team.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the goals and OKRs for the NPM Creative team in alignment with NPMs strategic plan business goals and corporate values.
- Manage and lead the NPM Creative team including five direct reports and three skip-level reports. Support the Supervising Producer in hiring freelance production support as needed.
- Drive revenue growth and sales for NPM Creatives products and services by collaborating with NPMs sales team and building brand and agency relationships.
- Collaborate with NPM sales leadership and NPR stakeholders to drive innovation in how brands connect with the NPR audience through storytelling.
- Foster research and innovation within the team and across NPM to develop market-driven sponsorship products and services.
- Represent NPM Creatives successes and achievements across NPM NPR and the industry at large.
- Advance efforts to reduce customer churn and optimize acquisition costs by enhancing product offerings improving client experience and delivering measurable performance improvements that generate renewals.
- Maintain and nurture NPM Creatives culture of collaboration excellence and innovation.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders at NPM and NPR to drive approvals and prioritization for new sponsorship activations and revenue-driving product opportunities.
- Partner with the Office of the General Counsel to ensure regulatory compliance on sponsorship products and creative.
The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned and this job description can be modified anytime.
Minimum Qualifications
- 7-10 years in brand partnerships or branded creative production
- 5 years leading motivating and guiding a team of creative professionals
- 3 years working with or managing product development teams
- Demonstrable ability to manage complex revenue lines and grow revenue
- Creative storytelling capabilities and a strong understanding of production processes
- Experience incorporating audience research into creative recommendations and executions
- Track record of building and fostering agency and brand relationships
- Excellent organizational and communication skills; experience communicating with executive stakeholders and senior clients
- A management style that values coaching collaboration independence and feedback
- A strong commitment to ethics inclusion and respect
Must be willing to travel for client meetings management meetings and conferences
Education Requirement
- Bachelors degree or equivalent in work experience
Work Location
- Hybrid Permitted: This is a hybrid permitted role. Some aspects of this role include duties that are better performed at an NPR facility. The employee must be on-site at the New York City or Washington D.C. office twice monthly.
Required Skills
- Comfortable with Microsoft Outlook Google Workspace and Project Management software
Job Type
- This is a full-time exempt position.
Compensation
Salary Range: The U.S.-based anticipated salary rate for this opportunity is $140000 plus benefits. The rate displayed reflects the maximum salary NPM expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.
Benefits: NPM offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPMs benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness paid time off and financial well-being. Plan options include medical dental vision life/ accidental death and dismemberment long-term disability short-term disability and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPM employees.
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NPR Pay Range
$140000 - $140000 USD
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