Podcast Director

Podcast Director

London (Hybrid)

We’re working with a large, well-backed content business investing heavily into podcasts and video-led formats.

They’re now hiring a Podcast Director to lead and scale a growing portfolio of shows across multiple genres and platforms.

This is a senior leadership role with real ownership: shaping strategy, building a slate of content, and driving long-term audience and commercial growth.

The Role

You’ll sit across the full podcast ecosystem from idea through to distribution and monetisation.

You’ll be responsible for defining the content strategy, growing the network, and ensuring shows are built to perform across both audio and video. You’ll also play a key role in building out the team and creating a structure that allows content to scale.

What you’ll be doing

• Defining and leading the overall podcast strategy

• Developing new show concepts, formats, and talent relationships

• Overseeing production output across multiple shows

• Driving audience growth across audio platforms, YouTube, and social

• Working closely with commercial teams on revenue and partnerships

• Building and leading a high-performing content and production team

• Using performance data to inform content decisions and scale output

What they’re looking for

• Strong experience leading podcasts, content, or media output at scale

• A deep understanding of how shows grow across platforms

• Experience working with talent and shaping formats

• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of monetisation

• A balance of creative instinct and data-led thinking

• Experience building and leading teams

Why this role

• Real ownership over a growing content division

• Backing, scale, and resource to build something meaningful

• Opportunity to shape both audio and video strategy

• Senior role with long-term impact

SUMO are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, disability or gender. As an employment agency, SUMO are fully committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all (both internally and on behalf of our clients).

Thank you for your interest in the above vacancy. Please note - due to the high volume of CVs & applications we receive, we can't always get back to everyone, although we will try our best!