Chief of Staff, Studio

About BuzzFeed, Inc.

BuzzFeed, Inc. (Nasdaq: BZFD) is home to the best of the internet with a mission to spread joy and truth. Across entertainment, news, food, pop culture, and commerce, our brands drive conversation and inspire what audiences watch, read, and buy now — and into the future. Born on the internet in 2006, BuzzFeed, Inc. is committed to improving it: providing trusted, quality, brand-safe entertainment to hundreds of millions of people; making content on the internet more inclusive, empathetic, and creative; and inspiring our audience to live better lives. 

🐝🎥 BuzzFeed Studios: Where Stories Come to Life

BuzzFeed Studios brings stories to life for hundreds of millions around the world, creating entertainment and viral content that sparks joy, inspires, and gets people talking. Our portfolio includes household names like BuzzFeed, Tasty, BuzzFeed Celeb, Cocoa Butter, Pero Like, and Animation Lab, reaching over 134M people each month through articles, videos, quizzes, podcasts, newsletters, and more.

Business Area: Content

Job Category: Studio

Salary: $110,000.00- $126,000.00 USD 

Union Status: Non-Union 

BuzzFeed Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We reserve the ability to adjust the final compensation for this role based on the final candidate's experience, skillset, certifications, and geography.

The Community You Will Join

We're looking for a sharp, proactive, high-functioning Chief of Staff to report to the President of Studio. You will support cross-divisional projects and manage ongoing projects across social media, video, advertising, television, and film. This is an amazing opportunity for someone with the ability to work collaboratively and keep many "balls in the air" to work at the heart of the organization on important projects, with lots of exposure to senior management and valuable clients. This role demands a unique blend of business acumen, administrative accuracy and organization, strong creative instincts, and people skills. The role demands someone with extensive experience in film and video production, fluent in development and production workflows, business development, business affairs, and administrative reporting.

A Typical Day

• Communicate and implement strategic business initiatives across the Studio.
• Partner with key stakeholders across the company to ensure the President is prepared for events, client meetings, productions and more. 
• Help manage the President’s time and priorities internally and externally, and ensure projects are supervised and completed in a thorough and timely manner. 
• Attend meetings on the President’s behalf, feeding back key information, and driving business forward.
• Project manage cross-company programs by leading and facilitating meetings, launching workstreams and coordinating with executive partners across the company to move projects forward and meet goals.
• Manage systems and deliverables to ensure the Studio adheres to all administrative needs, liaising between Studio stakeholders and the Admin teams.
• Support negotiations to get deals to a place where they are ready for the President’s review.
• Supervise the building and perfecting of creative materials from pitch decks, to screenplays, ready for the President’s review. 
• Review production plans and budgets, business proposals and pending deals.

Who You Are

• Experience working on multiple concurrent projects in a complex organizational environment, under tight timelines. 
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and experience effectively communicating at all levels, whether to the President or to an individual contributor
• Highest level of integrity and management of confidential information
• An ability and willingness to work at both the highest level and in the trenches. 
• A love of making high quality, accurate materials from decks to spreadsheets.
• Business acumen and savviness to navigate through our organization structure
• Track record in project and business management with true experience is analysing deals, negotiating terms and seeing contracts through to completion. 
• Extensive experience in entertainment - understanding workflows and protocols, the politics of the industry and possessing a network of resources. 
• A high energy, high functioning, dedicated approach to your work.

Use of artificial intelligence or an LLM such as ChatGPT during the interview process may be grounds for rejection of your application.

Life at BuzzFeed, Inc.

We celebrate inclusion and are committed to equal-opportunity employment. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category.

You can expect:

• A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions.
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth through work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning Team, our Employee Resource Groups, and more.
• An attractive and equitable compensation package, including salary.
• A well-rounded benefits program featuring paid time off, unlimited sick time, comprehensive medical benefits, a family leave policy, access to mental health platforms, retirement plans, health and wellness discounts, and much more.