Campaign Manager, Acast

12 Month Fixed Term

Salary not provided

Mid level

Dublin

Remote from Ireland

Podcast hosting, growth, and monetization

Job no longer available

Podcast hosting, growth, and monetization

201-500 employees

MarketplaceContentEntertainmentSaaSAdvertising

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Mid level

Dublin

Remote from Ireland

201-500 employees

MarketplaceContentEntertainmentSaaSAdvertising

Company mission

Acast empowers and enables podcast creatives to share amazing stories, find their valuable audience, and make money out of their craft.

Job

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Role

Who you are

Experience of working with talent/social media and/or podcasts previously is ideal
We’d love for you to have a track record of delivering executional and reputational excellence in a similar environment
Your organizational and timeline-obsessions will be easy to demonstrate
You will be someone who is always 'on', a swift and diplomatic problem solver who continuously exhibits excellent judgment, even under pressure
Previous experience within a revenue-driven environment is ideal, as this role will help accelerate Acast's continued commercial success
A confident communicator with the ability to manage and nurture relationships with podcast talent, agency networks and clients/advertisers
You will also be collaborating with multiple internal stakeholders so someone who believes in team work making the dream work is a must
The ability to manage multiple campaigns of varying sizes and complexity simultaneously is preferred
A love of podcasts is a must!

What the job involves

Reporting to Director of Sales, Ireland, this role sits within the Irish commercial team and is essential to making sure that our advertisers and our podcasters have the best commercial experience with Acast once booking a campaign. This is a 12 month fixed term contract
Whilst this is not a revenue generating role it’s critical in the optimization of our sales cycle and retention and growth of our advertising revenue
The Campaign Manager will work directly with the sales team to ensure a smooth transition of a campaign to management stage
This role is responsible for ensuring that our during and post sale campaign management , sponsorships and all commercial deliverables are of the highest standard
Agency & Client liaison: leading on the external conversations that are necessary to produce and report principally on sponsorship campaigns and ad campaigns as well as some branded content activations too
Podcaster & talent liaison: leading on the podcaster briefing process and timeline management of all commercial deliverables from our podcasters. Ensuring all commercial assets are of 1) a super high standard, 2) are delivered within timelines, so there are no campaign delays, whilst 3) maintaining exceptional relationships throughout with our podcasters and our agencies and clients
Campaign Delivery: working alongside Ad Ops, you will be on top of the day to day management and reporting on campaign performance. You will troubleshoot and problem solve where needed, updating the sales team with further escalations if necessary, as well as reporting on campaigns that have performed particularly well, creating opportunities to upsell. You will need to be able to manage multiple campaigns of varying sizes and complexity simultaneously
Campaign Performance: If campaign amends are needed you will work with the Sales team to make sure the necessary changes are made
Campaign Reporting & Analysis: When a campaign has finished and reporting is due, you will lead on creating and delivering the post campaign analysis. Providing insight, data and support on brand study creation alongside the planner and seller
Podcaster Payments: as dedicated by the billing type, at times you will be required to work closely with finance and your manager to make sure that our podcaster payments for commercial work are correct and paid on time Various other tasks: as a small high performing team, you will be required to do other tasks and projects from time to time

Our take

Acast is a podcast hosting platform, monetized by its ad network. Users gain access to a variety of tools including sharing tools and advanced analytics, and earn money via the adverts provided by the Acast service. Acast publish podcasts to all podcast apps such as Amazon, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

The Acast is the platform is used by worldwide brands such as the Guardian, BBC, HuffPost, VICE, Vougue and the Financial Times. It enables creators and advertisers to foster meaningful relationships with listeners, while giving anyone access to insightful, educational, and entertaining audio content.

Its acquisition of Podchaser - one of the most comprehensive podcast databases in the world - in 2022 meant that Acast could begin to build a structured metadata portfolio for the market. It has now built tools for listeners, creators and advertisers that enable monetisation and accelerated global reach.