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About the Role

Oversee the creation of a distinctive, best-in-class video and audio content offering, bringing together creative leadership, strategic direction, and operational excellence to deliver impactful output at scale. This role will be pivotal in shaping a bold, creatively led, culturally resonant vision and will play a critical role in unlocking value, ensuring content supports key priorities while strengthening the club's brand, relevance, and emotional connection with global audiences.

Responsibilities

Own video strategy, defining and leading it across the full range of content output.
Translate wider content strategy into clear video priorities using audience insight, data, and platform behavior.
Lead a dedicated team to produce world-class content that defines the club's brand, strengthens emotional connections with supporters, and advances strategic ambitions.
Operate as a senior leader in the Content & Media department's senior management team to shape and elevate content range and standards.
Build and champion a culture of creative excellence, collaboration, and high performance.
Empower the team to deliver exceptional work and realize their full potential.
Serve as the primary point of contact for key stakeholders, managing relationships and prioritizing requests.
Align requests with business objectives and departmental capacity.
Manage an integrated planning and resource model.
Ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.
Allocate resources effectively across the team.

Requirements

Extensive experience within a sports, entertainment, or media-focused environment.
History of working as a leader within a sport-adjacent organization, entertainment brand, or culturally relevant digital media environment.
Track record of delivering market-leading, innovative video and audio output across large-scale productions, live programming, branded content, and coverage of major events.
Ability to motivate, coach, and develop a talented team, delivering results as a collective.
Ability to lead and empower individuals to succeed and develop.
Exceptional creative judgment with a proven ability to set the direction for storytelling and define best-in-class content.
Ability to develop unique, distinctive, engaging, and culturally relevant ideas.
Leverage audience data, editorial insight, and platform performance to shape content decisions.
Use performance insight to improve content formats and challenge assumptions.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, managing senior stakeholders, competing priorities, and resource decisions in a fast-moving organization.
Clear, calm, and transparent communication style.
Ability to build and maintain impactful relationships with a diverse range of colleagues and external stakeholders.
Tailor communication approach as and when required.
Exceptional planning, resource management, workflow, and prioritization skills.
Well-versed in working with a range of production hardware, systems, emerging technology, and AI.
High level of cultural awareness, with an understanding of the club's brand and role beyond the pitch.
Successful candidates will be required to complete a DBS check and other essential background checks.

Skills

Video strategy
Audio content creation
Creative leadership
Strategic direction
Operational excellence
Team leadership
Content production
Brand building
Stakeholder management
Project management
Resource allocation
Creative judgment
Storytelling
Data analysis
Communication
Planning
Workflow management
Prioritization
Production hardware and systems
Emerging technology
AI
Cultural awareness

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior leader
Extensive experience

Benefits

Exciting reward and recognition scheme
Generous holiday allowance which increases with length of service
Great internal learning and development programmes
Priority access to apply for match tickets
Competitive health and wellbeing benefits package
Leading Employee Assistance Programme
Great discounts with some of our Partners
Opportunity to play a vital role in delivering ED&I strategy by joining an Employee Network

About the Company

One of the most famous clubs in world football, with a rich heritage and history of success.
Passionate about our local community.
Defined purpose: to act for a winning team, culture and community.
Values: courageous in the pursuit of progress, championing community and each other, doing the right thing.
Committed to ensuring that environments for children, young people and adults at risk remain safe and inclusive.

Equal Opportunity

Arsenal for Everyone is our commitment to promoting and embracing equality, diversity and inclusion, so that everyone connected to the club feels like they belong to the same Arsenal family.
We believe that diversity of background, skills and experience drives our success on and off the pitch.
We are a Disability Confident Leader.
We actively welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
If you need disability-related adjustments to the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.
If you are likely to meet the definition of being a ‘disabled person’ according to the Equality Act 2010, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme - please indicate this in your application form below.
The information you share with us about your health or disability will not be used in recruitment decisions.