Senior Manager, Creator Team Strategy and Operations

What You’ll Do

Spotter is seeking a Senior Manager, Creator Team Strategy and Operations to work directly with the Creator Team. You will work with teams across Spotter to solve challenges, drive high priority projects, and achieve greater operational excellence within the Creator Team. You will set, track and ensure aligned goals between teams. You have experience in a strategic business management role, with a focus on facilitating executive-level decisions and driving collaboration.

You will lead both operational and strategic projects, be a trusted adviser, serve as a sounding board to inform and, if necessary, challenge decisions; apply several perspectives (creator and community). You have experience working with senior executives, a high level of business and financial knowledge, creator empathy, and the ability to work cross functionally.  You will manage, mentor and develop a team of direct reports.  The position is based in our Culver City headquarters.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop strategic programs, build business and cross-functional operational best-practices, and improve execution.
• Guide visible strategic projects for Spotter’s Creator Team including developing an understanding of our goals and competitive environment, and analyzing and optimizing the performance of current offerings
• Serve as project manager for important strategic initiatives and experiments, collaborating with internal product, marketing, partnership teams and third parties
• Identify solutions to the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the Creator teams as we serve our communities. As we grow, it will be increasingly important to identify opportunities to promote efficiency across our organization, ensure that both our services and teams can scale, and we are structured to promote maximum value for our business and communities.

Who You Are

This role is inherently cross-functional and involves working closely with our partnerships, sales, marketing, analytics, product management, and executive teams. A successful candidate will be intellectually curious, highly analytical, resourceful, customer focused, team oriented, communicative and will have the ability to work independently under time constraints. A self-starter who is able to prioritize and deliver on deadlines with minimal supervision, this person will have the ability to persuade and influence others. They will have a proven track record in successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.

Qualifications include:

• Bachelor's degree (MBA preferred) and at least 5 years of experience in content. partnerships, marketing or business development preferably within technology companies.
• Strong analytical skills and communication (written and verbal) skills. Ability to make complex subjects clear, easy to grasp, and compelling to consume.
• Project management skills with the ability to set goals and prioritize programs.
• Experience in a similar role, business management, corporate development or other collaborative leadership role.
• Proven success managing and mentoring a high performing team.
• Experience partnering with executives across an organization.
• Preferred: subject matter expertise in the creator economy, social media, and/or advertising gained through a role in content licensing, creator management, product management and/or social media or influencer marketing.

Bonus Points

• Strategy consulting background
• You are someone who is obsessive about the data but can marry it with qualitative information to guide decisions and take appropriate action.
• This role is intended for somebody who will take meaningful responsibility and initiative for shaping and building upon important programs to achieve our mission and strategy. Demonstrated in establishing priorities and proposing new paths to achieving desired outcomes.
• Use frameworks to help structure the team's thinking, promote agreement on important decisions among team members, and identify the 80/20 opportunities to reach relevant answers without boiling the ocean with analysis overload.

Why Spotter

• Medical and vision insurance covered up to 100%
• Dental insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Stock options
• Complimentary gym access
• Autonomy and upward mobility
• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture, where your voice matters.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in Culver City. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the current pay range is: $100-$500K salary per year. The range listed is just one component of Spotter’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include an annual discretionary bonus and equity. This position is non-exempt.