Director or Producer/Director in London

Studia is bringing the creator economy to education. Students subscribe to the tutors they love for £19.99/month and get livestreamed lessons, AI support trained on that tutor's material, and a growing library of recorded classes. Through the summer, we'll also be streaming with our launch cohort on TikTok and YouTube to bring new students in.

You'll own the on-screen quality of our launch cohort end to end — the show format, the production craft, the live direction, and the short-form cuts that pull new students in. In TV terms, you'll be doing the work of three people: a format producer, a talent producer, and a PD. Our students live on Twitch, TikTok Live and YouTube. They want relatable, native, human content — not a high-gloss TV aesthetic imposed on top. We have backup content on the shelf so a single point of failure never takes a stream off air.

This role becomes the foundation of Studia's in-house production capability as the cohort scales.

• Build the Studia show format: structure of a one-hour live lesson plus 30-minute Q&A, including cold-opens, hooks, segments, polls, quizzes, chat-handling beats, and sign-offs.
• Run a 90-minute baseline session in week one, then a weekly 1:1 reviewing replays, metrics, and chat logs.
• Run group workshops on the craft of live teaching: pacing, eye contact, reading chat, handling silence, energy management, building personal story, driving engagement.
• Audit and uplift each tutor's home setup — camera, framing, lighting, background, audio, internet — to a consistent, premium-but-relatable standard.
• Brief or directly cut short-form edits for TikTok and YouTube, shaped for each platform, and track which clips drive followers and sign-ups.
• Prepare each tutor for failure states before they happen — a troll in chat, a hard question they can't answer live, a mid-stream technical failure, a low-viewer session.
• Act as a casting sense-check on final tutor selection alongside our talent recruiter.
• When a stream goes badly, you're the person who calls that tutor that evening.

You've been on shoots, in galleries, and in edit suites. Credits as a Producer / Director or Format Producer on live or near-live shows where talent had to perform in real time. Built a show format from scratch — segments, runs of show, talent prompts, recovery beats — and made it repeatable across a roster of presenters. Coached non-professional talent into camera-ready presenters. Hands-on technical fluency: cameras, lighting, audio, OBS or vMix, encoders, green screen and live keying, talkback. Short-form editing chops: Riverside, Descript, CapCut, Premiere or equivalent, with a feel for the difference between a TikTok hook and a YouTube Shorts hook. A working understanding of creator-economy live — Twitch, TikTok Live, YouTube Live. Experience launching a creator from zero to an active community. Familiarity with chat moderation, community building, and Discord-style audience tools.

Full-time freelance, starting ASAP — latest early June — through to our September launch and beyond. ~£2,000 per week, inclusive of holiday. ~ Hybrid London. Tuesdays and Thursdays in office at Venture X, Wood Lane. Most livestreams run in late afternoons, evenings, and weekends, around the school day. ~ Reports to COO Eleanor Bird, working closely with CPO Ben Lavender.

Send a short note explaining why this role and what you'd bring, plus links or examples of live or short-form content you've produced or directed.