Content Head · Channel Manager
Own Steve Tan's YouTube strategy, operating system, content quality, production pipeline, and channel growth.
Senior leadershipRemote10 AM · 7 PM6+ years
Heads upThis is a results-owning leadership role, not only a coordination role. Candidates must provide exact channel and video links, explain what they personally owned, and show performance movement through YouTube analytics or verifiable public data.
Apply now →What you'll do
- Own Steve Tan's YouTube positioning, audience, content pillars, series, publishing cadence, priorities, and roadmap.
- Turn Steve's expertise, business goals, audience needs, research, and platform opportunities into a focused content strategy.
- Manage the pipeline from idea selection and research through scripting, thumbnails, editing, review, publishing, distribution, and analysis.
- Guide premises, hooks, titles, thumbnails, structures, pacing, retention, calls to action, and long-form packaging.
- Use AI for research, competitor analysis, idea clustering, transcript analysis, audience insight, content briefs, repurposing, workflow automation, reporting, and decision support.
- Build an AI-enabled content operating system with clear human approvals and editorial judgement at critical stages.
- Analyse CTR, retention, average view duration, watch time, returning viewers, traffic sources, audience behaviour, and business outcomes.
- Lead writers, editors, designers, strategists, contributors, and founders through clear priorities, briefs, feedback, and accountability.
- Build dashboards, calendars, idea banks, SOPs, review systems, templates, and production documentation.
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of YouTube strategy, channel management, editorial leadership, or senior content experience.
- A strong record of managing, growing, or materially improving long-form channels, ideally in AI, business, education, media, or founder-led content.
- Deep understanding of CTR, retention, watch time, returning viewers, traffic sources, audience development, and packaging.
- Excellent editorial judgement across topics, premises, hooks, titles, thumbnails, scripts, structures, and audience promises.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams while holding quality, deadlines, and channel results simultaneously.
- Demonstrated AI-enabled content workflow and automation experience without surrendering editorial judgement.
- Strong communication, leadership, organisation, ownership, and willingness to change strategy when evidence disagrees.
Core skills and tools
- YouTube channel strategy, positioning, audience development, editorial planning, packaging, retention judgement, and performance diagnosis.
- Production pipeline leadership, cross-functional management, dashboards, SOPs, calendars, and workflow design.
- YouTube Studio and Analytics, vidIQ, TubeBuddy, Google Trends, Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Frame.io, Figma, and Canva.
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, NotebookLM, transcription, repurposing, and automation tools.
What you'll get
- A high-ownership role inside Steve Tan's AI-first founder-led media and business operation.
- Direct exposure to fast-moving AI, content, media, and audience-growth workflows.
- The opportunity to build repeatable systems, standards, and proof-backed work at meaningful scale.
- Compensation based on experience, quality, measurable results, ownership, reliability, and AI capability.
- Growth potential as the content and creative operation expands.