Head of Content

 

Runyon is working with the world class culture and community center the 92nd Street Y to incubate a new venture in the digital learning space, and is looking for a founding Head of Content to help launch and scale the effort. The business is capitalized through 92Y, has early in-market traction, and enjoys unique access to strategic resources and capabilities across operations, technology and an existing educator network.

We are now looking for a Head of Content to create and nurture a distinguished vision for a broad range of timeless and timely arts and humanities classes, while developing scalable mechanisms to attract the world’s leading educators.

A great candidate would have a proven track record of curating and recruiting appealing adult arts and humanities classes, with a particular flair for curation of classical studies with current relevance. At the same time, they would have an eye for execution and operationalization of a scalable content curriculum, whether cultivating and recruiting an ever-growing list of relevant educators, working with institutional content partners to extend Modern Subjects’ programing reach, or creating tools to help ensure that a clear, compelling, consistent content vision is delivered across Modern Subjects. This is a senior, managerial role that combines hands-on content programming with recruiting and managing a curation and programming team over time. Full-time position available.

92nd Street Y is a world-class cultural and community center where people all over the world connect through culture, arts, entertainment and conversation. For over 140 years, we have harnessed the power of arts and ideas to enrich, enlighten and change lives, and the power of community to repair the world. As a proudly Jewish organization, 92Y enthusiastically welcomes and reaches out to people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds while embracing Jewish values like learning and self-improvement, the importance of family, the joy of life, and giving back to our wonderfully diverse and growing community, both locally and around the world.

Runyon is a product design and venture studio that helps companies grow. We are a team of customer-centered designers and strategists that crafts new products, experiences and ventures. Our approach combines customer needs and behaviors with leading edge business strategy. Our work is sprint- and prototype-driven and we think about how we can launch products into market in ways that are meaningful and measured from the start. Our team has decades of experience working with some of the largest global client partners including The New York Times, Disney+, Target and others.

Responsibilities

  • Build a lean, but highly impactful content programming team, recruiting and mentoring experienced programers that will push Modern Subjects’ programing in diverse and exciting directions.

  • Articulate a clear and compelling content vision for Modern Subjects to help solicit content partners to the platform.

  • Engage with the CEO, Head of Marketing, Head of Product, and other key Modern Subjects teammates to ensure that a differentiated content strategy is consistently conveyed across the business and product.

  • Recruit world leading Educators (over 200 in 2022) that create a consistently engaging classroom experience for Learners.

  • Ensure that all Educators across the board have a great experience teaching on Modern Subjects, and have the tools and information they need to be at their best.

Qualifications

  • A broad academic and professional background in arts, culture, and humanities.

  • Demonstrated experience in creating and delivering excellent online adult education programing with a loyal customer base and consistently highly reviewed classes.

  • Deep personal interest and consistently demonstrated ability to keep a finger on the pulse of cultural trends that inform programing and match evolving audience needs.

  • A long existing list of Educator contacts and relationships, and a demonstrated track record of continuously researching and expanding a robust Educator pipeline.

  • Expertise in the full cycle of Educator relationship management, from onboarding.

Compensation and Benefits

  • We provide competitive compensation, including equity, cash bonus, healthcare, dental, and 4 weeks vacation.

Sounds like you/interested?

If you are curious and believe that you’d be a fit at this new venture, please apply below.