Requirements

We’re looking for:

• نيع decades of leadership in news or media, preferably serving as Head of Video / Shortform / Social Content within a publisher or professional media organisation of scale.
• Proven ability to optimise content-distribution performance across shortform platforms (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, among others).
• Expertise in the intricacies of video metering—how attention metrics (duration, drop-off points), organic reach and viral conversion work on different channels—guiding editorial production decisions.
• Interaction expertise: either as a producer/evaluator of on-camera personnel, or ideally, participation (as interviewer, injector or subject) in a professional context.
• In-depth knowledge of video commissioning frameworks, embeddings-on-platform variances, and transferring narrative fidelity with adaptive optimisation.
• Evidence of attributing audience growth to team strategy and operations.
• Compelling personal portfolio demonstrating unit-level and high-impact results, with reasoning for optimised execution decisions.
• An understanding of how journalism and distribution strategy intersect at interpretation, accessibility (subtitles, visuals) and demographic targeting.
• Experience interfacing with clear budgetary ownership, impacting P&L and plan allocation.

Who We’re Looking For

• Thinker who understands that shortform video storytelling represents an evolution in journalistic narrative technique.
• Strategic broadcaster with fingers on the pulse of trending trends and space to captain corporate syntheses of them.
• Bring along rabo-led impact measurement techniques, incorporating audience sentiment and ergonomic challenges facing the sector’s agenda.
• Div-erصtotour who can lead inclusion through both public campaigns and internal organisational norms, ensuring robust representation within squad and stories led out by platform.
• Multi-lateral acumen: excels in aligning an editorial vision with regulatory, vertical audience and data-driven imperatives. Prioritise fairness, accountability and journalistic excellence even in rapid-return social spaces.
• Would be empowered by a balanced workday: ability to harness the benefits of a hybrid culture while remaining locked in to collaborate face-to-face where cooperation achieves most.

About You

You’ll thrive if you:

• Have 10+ years’ experience in media and video storytelling, with verifiable growth results across social platforms.
• Work collaboratively, balancing editorial and business priorities with a team encompassing creatives, technologists and data experts.
• Seek a role where transformation and innovation are central considerations every week.
• Possess excellent facilitation skills, navigating sensitive topics and crafting consensus within complex multilateral projects.
• Adore working in a fast-moving brand culture, leveraging the agility of a startup with industry-wide legacy platform reach.
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset, ready to break ground and take calculated risks in service of evolving audience expectations.
• Promote equity and inclusion in both talent investment and program storytelling/access.

Specifically:

• Female Candidate Privilege: in-studio interviews and collaborative projects run with approaches enabled by recruitment libraries which foster aspiration campaigning.
• Entry for candidates who wish to make use of accessible guidelines.
• Strong willingness to partake in mentorship matching, sharing techniques uniform across the widening platform roster.

Supportive Application Process

Apply with:

• Your latest CV
• A cover letter explaining why the role aligns with your experience, stories you see driving this culture of video, and how your leadership qualities would amplify The Guardian’s mission.

Closing Date: 15th July 2026

All roles invite people from every background to apply. Inquire about adaptions for application materials or accommodations through: sean.brinkley@theguardian.com.

Benefits

• Flexible Learning & Growth:

  • Six weeks’ annual leave (plus bank holidays) with 5 extra paid days buyable.
  • Education scheme covering professional qualifications (vocational courses and apprenticeships).

• Financial Security:

  • Pension contribution of 8–12% if you contribute 5%.
  • Extensive health cover options (dental, life assurance, income protection, eye care).
  • Transport savings through cycle-to-work and season ticket schemes.

• Wellbeing Resources:

  • Two volunteer days annually.
  • Wellbeing programme access, encompassing online therapy and physical health modules.
  • Free yoga, Pilates and gym membership, nestled around spectacular canal views.

• Work-Life Balance:

  • Hybrid model functioning (at least three in-office days), furnished with canteen meals (optionil spasms from breakfast to dinner) and supportive workspace infrastructure.

• Supportive Collaborators:

• Established partnerships with unionised organisations including NUJ bargaining.

• Communications Hub: Shared aspirations for guarding global integration through inclusive policies and resources spanning maternity / paternity / adoption leave, IVF, menopause and trans rights support.

All terms sustain an inspired committed process for diverse, personal perspectives. All employees receive wellbeing emphasis; loops for belonging and progression shaped through collaborative employee forums and cross-platform impact opportunities.