Company Overview:
Founded in 2018, Pocket FM is a premier audio series platform with a global audience of over 200 million+ listeners. We have revolutionized audio storytelling by making it a mainstream
entertainment format, featuring episodic storytelling across diverse genres. Our innovative approach has led to an average daily engagement of 120 minutes per user. Today, we are the largest audio series platform globally, redefining how the world experiences stories one episode at a time! Join us in our journey to recreate the future of entertainment.
About the Role:
At its core, the Associate Production’s role is grounded in partnering with some of the best creators, VOAs, RJs and voices in India and utilizing their skills to produce amazing audio content across all the formats on Pocket FM. You shall actively engage with voice-over artists, creators, and dubbing artists both in-house and outsourced, to work on audiobooks, and audio shows, optimizing creation quality to create immersive and compelling audio content. The successful candidate will marry a strong passion for entertainment and audio storytelling with a hearty curiosity for innovation and data, to define the audio production strategy and playbook. If you’re a fan of Audio content, this is your chance to transform how storytelling is presented and discovered by millions of users around the world.
Key Responsibilities:
Impact and success will be based on the ability to direct and produce high-quality and compelling audio content, and the dexterity to work seamlessly across numerous internal and external stakeholder teams.
You will be required to build and maintain close partnerships with content creators, writers, audio production, and other cross-functional teams (Marketing, Product, Quality check) to define the playbook for the original slate of Audio Content on Pocket FM.
A Typical Day Might Include:
- Content Operation: Ensuring the daily operations of various running audio shows, including the management of complex multicast audio series. Track and deliver week on week the required episodes needed for the target uploads.
- Research & Planning: Working closely with the content team, production team, and creators to plan as per the content pipeline and streamline their timely delivery.
- Operationalize and lead a network of internal and external partners to create best-in-class audio creation workstream, setting creation standards across all facets of the production cycle, including multicast dubbing and theatre production.
- Utilize organizational skills to manage a growing portfolio of creators across the region, with a focus on those involved in multicast dubbing and theatre productions.
- Track user comments to identify issues linked to voice and sound, especially in multicast dubbing projects, and take proactive action to address them.
- For show launches, track and perform Quality Control (QC) in sync with the QC team, maintaining the best quality, and being accountable for Quality Check misses for content produced, including multicast dubbing quality standards.
- Managing large teams of content creators and ensuring that creators are aligned with their deliverables, particularly in the context of multicast dubbing and theatre experiences.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of producing and managing content, content creators, creative communities, with a strong background in multicast dubbing and theatre experience.
- Strong creative instincts and an informed POV on what will delight our listeners when it comes to longform audio creation.
- Proactive, fast, and flexible problem-solver with superb time, resource, and stakeholder management.
- Strong project management skills and experience managing multiple workstreams.
- Deep knowledge of, and established relationships with, key voice talent and agents.
- Experience managing a complex production schedule with the ability to manage priorities on a title-by-title basis.
- High degree of initiative, self-motivation, and autonomy; confident in working independently and assuming clear ownership of projects.
- Self-motivated leader and strong collaborator/team player - with the ability to maintain calm, make good decisions, and work with constant ambiguity.
- Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
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