Podcast Discovery is looking for a Project Assistant to support the team and help our clients' podcasts grow and build their audiences.
What's Podcast Discovery?
Podcast Discovery is UK's leading full-service podcast marketing agency combining owned, earned and paid media. It was founded by Matt Deegan and Matt Hill, who previously set up the British Podcast Awards, to solve a key problem for shows, networks and brands – finding new listeners. To date, the agency has worked with podcasts, production companies and networks including Crooked Media, The Economist, ITV, Amazon Music, FT, Red Bull, Chalk & Blade, Crowd Network.
It also operates the consumer podcast listening brand Podcast Rex – which has a website, social channels and the Great British Podcasts newsletter that's delivered to 130,000 podcast fans every week.
As a full service agency, the team supports shows with PR, social, video, paid advertising, performance marketing, events and more. We leave the making of podcasts to our clients, but provide consultancy to ensure their shows are ready to be marketed.
We're a remote-first, small, high performance team, who are all experts in their field. Currently we meet up every two weeks in person in London. Whilst this is a remote role, we would also expect the successful candidate to be flexible for in-person client meetings and podcast related events across the country.
The Job
We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our fast growing team and work on a wide range of exciting podcast-related projects. You will help our team out with a variety of tasks across the business including supporting advertising campaigns, pulling together reports for clients and writing copy for our website and clients.
This is an entry level position ideal for a recent graduate with experience in student media or a non-graduate with some experience in podcasting, content creation or community media.
This role may start early in the day at 8am, finishing early at 4.30pm.
Key Skills
* You will have an understanding of the media industry, particularly podcasting. This means you'll have a good idea of which shows are most relevant across a variety of genres, understand how podcasts are made and have an awareness of the UK's biggest production companies. In short, you need to know your Audible from your Audio Always.
* You'll be creative and be able to produce bright ideas that solve tricky problems and get clients excited.
* You'll be highly organised, keep track of tasks and meet deadlines
* You will be a quick learner who is capable of turning your hand to a variety of tasks you may not have taken on before. You need to be able to embrace new experiences and be excited to learn.
* You'll love podcasts and talk passionately about your favourite shows.
Additional skills
This role is a graduate/early career position, so we don't expect real world experience, but you would get points if you had:
* …some knowledge of the way digital advertising works – whether display, through podcasts or in YouTube and digital video
* …writing experience – whether that's articles, reviewing content, reporting from events, interviewing creatives
* …some data analysis experience. Perhaps sorting and analysing data, competence in Google Sheets or Excel
* … some creative experience. Can you edit in Photoshop, Premier or Audition? Have you used WordPress?
Benefits
* Full Private Medical and Dental Insurance
* Competitive Workplace Pension
* Flexible working
* Remote working with fortnightly all-team meet-ups in London
* 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
* An annual salary of £26,000
* To apply
Email with the subject line "Project Assistant". Include your CV and a short cover letter explaining why you think you'd be a good fit. Don't use AI to do this – we would like to see how you write and not how ChatGPT does it.
Be sure to tell us about your favourite podcast and why you like it. Don't try to impress us with the answer you think we want – we want to hear your enthusiasm come across for a show you truly love, even if you consider it a guilty pleasure
Closes: Tuesday 30th September, 5pm.