Head of Content Operations

Head of Content Operations We’re an investment intelligence and media company operating at the intersection of capital and culture. We publish a weekly brief on where next-generation wealth is flowing across scarce assets, art, watches, classic cars, real estate, collectibles, etc. and we're building a media network that bring that thesis to the investor community at scale. Our first channels launches this quarter. We're looking for the person who will make all of it run. The role As Head of Content Operations, you own the machine. Every newsletter that lands in an inbox, every video that ships on time, every channel that launches without chaos, that's yours. You'll build the production system from the ground up, manage the team that executes it, and keep content in motion without the founders needing to be in every conversation. This isn't a coordinator role. It isn't a scheduler role. It's the operational brain behind a media company that intends to become the definitive editorial voice on taste as an investable asset class. You'll report directly to the founder, have full ownership of the content pipeline, and be the reason we can scale without breaking. What you'll own - The research pipeline. you’ll research topics under founder guidance. - The content calendar. A rolling 90-day plan across all channels, always four weeks ahead of publish, never in firefight mode. You translate the editorial strategy into weekly production schedules with clear owners, deadlines, and dependencies. - The production pipeline. Brief → research → script review → shoot coordination → edit supervision → thumbnail → metadata → publish. You build SOPs for every stage. You run the system, not just observe it. - Performance analytics. Newsletter metrics, YouTube Studio, Shorts performance. You produce a one-page weekly brief every Monday and you know what to do with what's in it. When something's working, you double it. When something isn't, you fix it before the next upload. - Vertical channel launches. Watches, Cars, Real Estate, Collectibles… You own the launch playbook for each, pre-launch content buffer, channel assets, cross-promotion strategy, and the first 30 days of the new channel's life. - Newsletter ↔ YouTube integration. Every newsletter issue and every YouTube video are designed to feed each other. You own the CTA copy, the conversion tracking, and the discipline that makes the flywheel actually spin. - The team. Editors, researchers, thumbnail designers, freelancers. You write briefs they can execute without a follow-up call. As the network grows, you become the managing editor of the media operation. What you bring You've shipped content weekly, at scale, for at least a year. Monthly or quarterly cadences are a different job. This role runs on weekly rhythm — a weekly topic and videos is the starting pace, and it accelerates from there. You know YouTube at a mechanic's level. Not "post consistently and engage with comments." You understand the difference between CTR and watch time retention, you know how Shorts feed into long-form discovery, and you know what signals kill the recommendation engine. You've either grown a channel or you can show us the work. You live in project management tools. Notion, Airtable, Asana, you have a preference and a system. You build production trackers that other people actually use, and you write SOPs that don't collect dust. You have editorial sensibility. You can tell the difference between a good title and a great one. You know when a thumbnail is off-brand before you can explain why. You don't need to be a writer but you need to be a sharp reader and a sharper editor. You're data-fluent without being data-paralyzed. You read a CTR curve and act on it. You identify a retention drop-off and brief a fix. You don't wait for a quarterly review to notice something isn't working. What we're looking for * 3–5 years in digital media, YouTube channel operations, podcast networks, or newsletter publishing, not brand marketing, not agency work * Experience managing a content team and coordinating freelancers across multiple workstreams * Genuine familiarity with YouTube SEO: title testing, metadata strategy, thumbnail A/B testing, chapter markers * Comfortable with newsletter platforms (Beehiiv, Substack, or equivalent) — list growth, deliverability, free-to-paid conversion * Experience with the "one piece of research, five formats" content atomization model * Experience with Claude and other LLM’s What puts you in a different category * You've launched a channel or content brand from zero — you know what a pre-launch content buffer looks like in practice * You have a genuine interest in watches, classic cars, art, or alternative assets — not as a prerequisite, but because the our thesis genuinely excites you * You've run cross-platform content operations (YouTube + newsletter + Shorts + social) simultaneously * You've managed the newsletter-to-paid conversion funnel and have results to show for it What this isn't This isn't the right role if you've only managed brand or agency campaigns on quarterly cycles. It isn't right if you focus on throughput over quality — our brand runs on editorial conviction, not content volume. And it isn't right if you need the system to be built before you can run it. You are the person who builds the system. What you'll get Compensation: depending on experience and location, tied to subscriber milestones, newsletter conversion targets, and channel launch delivery. Autonomy: Full ownership of the operations function. The founder focuses on creative direction. Everything else is yours. The work itself: You'll build the production infrastructure for what we intend to become the defining media voice on culture as capital. That's not a thing that exists yet. You'd be building it. The 90-day benchmark By the end of your first 90 days, the founder should be spending less than two hours per week on operations. If that hasn't happened, something has gone wrong — either in the hire or in the handoff. We're committed to making it work. We expect you to be too. How to apply Send a brief note (not a cover letter — a note) with the subject line "Head of Content Operations." Tell us: 1. One channel, newsletter, or content operation you've helped run — what your role was, what the cadence looked like, and one thing you'd do differently now. 2. Where you think most YouTube channels in the luxury/collector space are leaving growth on the table. 3. Anything else you think we should know. We read everything. We respond to everyone who makes it past the first review. We move quickly. We’re an equal opportunity employer. We hire on merit, build on trust, and believe the best teams are made of people who find the work genuinely worth doing.