Senior Creator Manager

About Smooth

Smooth Media is the talent management company for knowledge creators — the people teaching, explaining, and breaking down the world through smart, insightful content. We serve as a true strategic partner to our creators — an extension of their team that helps them run, grow, and professionalize their business.

About the Role

Reports to: CEO

We're looking for a Senior Creator Manager to join our growing team. You've already proven you can run a roster, and now you're ready to operate with real autonomy, manage a larger book of business, and help shape how the rest of the team works. You have a complete command of the playbook, deep commercial instincts, and the trust of every creator you work with. You don't wait to be told what a creator needs, you already know, and you're already three steps ahead on it.

This is a senior, high-ownership role for someone who's built and grown a roster before, has real independent sourcing wins on the board, and is ready to mentor others while continuing to build their own book of business.

What you'll do

• Own a roster of 15+ active creators, with full accountability for their growth, retention, and monetization
• Serve as the primary point of contact and genuine strategic partner for every creator on your roster, delivering honest, objective feedback creators trust and come back to
• Independently source and close new creators, without relying on inbound or existing relationships to carry the work
• Know the revenue trajectory of every creator on your roster, and proactively identify and build the right brand and growth opportunities for them, rather than waiting for Brand Partnerships to bring options to you
• Spot undermonetized creators on your roster and build a concrete plan to change that
• Act as a true partner to our Brand Partnerships team, bringing clear, high-quality opportunities, communicating creator priorities in a way that drives revenue, and exercising strong judgment on what will actually work for a given creator
• Help creators identify when they need to build out their own team, and support them through finding and onboarding the right people
• Mentor and support other Creator Managers, sharing what you've learned and acting as a go-to resource for the team
• Contribute directly to how Smooth operates, whether that's refining our internal playbook or improving how the team works together
• Represent Smooth externally in a way that reflects our standard: kind, thoughtful, sharp, calm, and someone the industry trusts

What we're looking for

• Experience advising and growing creators, talent, or media businesses, with a track record of helping them increase revenue
• Experience finding and winning new relationships, whether that’s creators, clients, or partners, and bringing them on board yourself
• A track record of long-term relationships where the people you work with stay, grow, and do better over time
• Strong command of relationship management fundamentals, including trust-building, preparing for strategic conversations, and coordinating across teams
• Sharp commercial instincts, with the ability to spot a growth or brand opportunity and bring it forward on your own
• Experience helping creators, founders, or clients build out their teams and systems
• A history of making the people and processes around you better, whether through mentoring others or improving how a team operates
• Must be NYC-based (in office Mon-Thurs)

What we can offer

• Base salary: $115,000
• Expected Year 1 OTE of $185k - $225k
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO (mandatory 10 days per year minimum)
• A meaningful stake in the growth of a profitable, bootstrapped company

Smooth Media is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.