Location: all cities,NY, USA
Astra Content, an international thought leadership, brand journalism and creative staffing agency with deep journalistic roots, is looking for a General Manager to help us drive the next phase of our growth, targeting revenue of $5-7 million.
Heres the deal: Our founder has been very successful at building authentic relationships with C-level executives, including CMOs and CCOs, at major companies and international organizations, and its becoming harder for him to keep driving growth while also overseeing all execution and delivery.
Were looking for someone with big-league agency experience and exceptionally high standards who will take the reins of our day-to-day operations including content production, client onboarding and management, as well as team hiring, onboarding and management. Were looking for a strong leader with strong opinions about how an agency should be efficiently and effectively run.
Half of our business is creating content, including thought leadership and brand journalism, for global brands including Google, Microsoft, and the World Economic Forum, among others. Weve also branched into creative staffing and now successfully provide contract workers to tech companies, including writers, editors, marketers, and marketing, communications and PR team members, among other roles.
Since we were founded by journalists and our clients love our journalistic approach, our General Manager would ideally have a strong journalism background from a major media outlet such as Bloomberg, Reuters, or The WSJ. And, since our clients are all over the world (including in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia), wed also love to find someone with international experience and good cross-cultural knowledge.
Lots of agencies talk a good game about delivering quality were dead serious about it. We aim to simply be the best thought leadership and brand journalism agency in the world. Our differentiator is that we leverage our extensive global network of journalists to custom build expert editorial teams for each and every client. It takes a lot more work, but our clients are genuinely thrilled at the quality we deliver.
Our rigorous approach has enabled us to diversify into creative staffing and were committed to being known as a better, more ethical, and more transparent staffing agency. We genuinely want to ensure our contractors have a rewarding experience and are working hard to make that happen.
Finally, since were still a small and lean agency, we need someone who can be architect, engineer and project manager all in one. More than occasionally, youll also be rolling up your sleeves and doing the work yourself.
Were prepared to pay very well for the right candidate, including significant profit share.
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Please send a CV and letter to ...@astracontent.com telling us why you think you'd like to take on this challenge. If you don't take a moment to write us a note, we probably wouldn't consider you in our business writing is thinking and we want to see how you think. Location is irrelevant to us, but we mostly work in US time zones. Unfortunately, visa sponsorships isn't available.