Creative Video & Production Lead - Football in London

London | Salary - DOE

An exciting opportunity for an experienced Creative Video & Production Lead to join a major organisation in football, and shape how it brings its brand, stories and personalities to life through video.

This is a senior role with responsibility for the organisation’s video strategy and production function, leading a talented in‑house team and setting the direction for video across digital, social, live and longer‑form channels.

You’ll combine strong creative instincts with the ability to run an effective production operation - developing new formats and ideas, making informed decisions around where resource is focused, and ensuring the team consistently produces work that connects with a large global audience.

Day‑to‑day:

• Set the direction for video across the organisation, identifying the formats, stories and opportunities that will have the greatest impact.
• Lead, manage and develop an established team of video and production specialists.
• Oversee a varied production slate spanning digital and social video, branded projects, live programming and major events.
• Work closely with wider creative, editorial and media teams to develop ideas and bring campaigns and stories to life.
• Use audience behaviour and performance data to understand what is working and influence future video output.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the organisation, understanding their objectives and determining how video can best support them.
• Develop more effective production processes and ways of working as the volume and ambition of video output continues to grow.
• Oversee relationships with external production companies, freelancers, creators and talent where required.

Key Requirements:

• Significant experience leading video and production within sport, entertainment, media or a major consumer brand.
• A strong portfolio of high-quality video work across multiple formats and platforms.
• Experience delivering a mixture of live, digital, branded and large-scale productions.
• Proven experience managing and developing creative and production teams.
• Strong creative judgement with the confidence to establish a clear point of view on what good video looks like.
• Comfortable operating at both a strategic and hands‑on leadership level.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and managing multiple priorities across a complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of production planning, budgets, workflows and resource management.
• An audience‑focused approach, using data and performance insights to inform creative decisions.
• Good understanding of current production technology and how emerging tools can improve both creative output and efficiency.

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