YouTube Entertainment Channel Lead

Location: London – Broadcasting House, United Kingdom

Salary: £42,000–£52,000 per year plus London Weighting

Company

hirify.global creates and distributes content through its mission to inform, educate, and entertain.

What you will do

• Lead audience and community management for a new YouTube entertainment channel.
• Manage weekly publishing schedules for long-form videos, Shorts, and supporting social posts.
• Drive engagement through comments, polls, posts, live chats, and other YouTube community tools.
• Develop initiatives that increase audience loyalty, repeat viewing, and deeper engagement.
• Collaborate with editorial, production, creative, and social teams to identify audience interests and emerging trends.
• Optimize titles, descriptions, tags, thumbnails, testing, publishing strategies, workflows, reporting, and performance across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

Requirements

• Significant experience building and growing online communities in entertainment, youth, creator, or social-first brands.
• Proven experience engaging audiences aged 16–34 across YouTube and other social platforms.
• Strong knowledge of YouTube community features, audience engagement strategies, and platform analytics.
• Experience publishing and managing content on YouTube and at least one other major social platform.
• Strong audience-data, organizational, editorial, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Eligibility to work in the United Kingdom is checked before employment.

Nice to have

• Experience launching or growing a YouTube channel.
• Experience with creator, entertainment, or talent-led content.
• Basic editing and asset-creation skills using Canva, Photoshop, CapCut, or Premiere Pro.
• Understanding of public service media and reaching young audiences through digital platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Fixed-term, full-time appointment until 02/11/2027.
• Flexible 35-hour working week and flexible working discussions.
• 25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy five additional days.
• Defined pension scheme and discounted dental, healthcare, and gym benefits.
• Career and professional development in an inclusive, values-based organization.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted online only; CV applications are not accepted.
• Employment screening includes reference and eligibility-to-work checks, with safeguarding and adverse media or social media checks where applicable.