General Business

Agency Director

Dubai, Dubai
Work Type: Full Time

About OML:


Only Much Louder Entertainment is a market-leading, full-service creative and entertainment business network that has instigated pop culture for over two decades by creating iconic moments across television, digital content, fan experiences, branded entertainment and in the artist-creators community. Celebrated for creating India's first multi-genre music festival, the NH7 Weekender, Only Much Louder has built India’s independent music and comedy scene from the ground-up. They won the first-ever Branded Content and Entertainment Cannes Lion for ‘Dewarists’ and have been the first homegrown content business to have a strong footprint in over 22 countries.


Today, Only Much Louder businesses include -:


Artist Management: Representing the best talent in the country including comedians, actors, chefs, hosts, writers, directors, creators, illusionists,  and more.


Content Studio: Developing and producing original long-form scripted and unscripted content for television and streaming platforms since 2016 with over 32 shows and 69 comedy specials, across Amazon Prime, Netflix, MTV, Disney Hotstar and more.


Branded Content: With businesses in the creative and branded content space Only Much Louder  has serviced some of the biggest global brands like Tinder, Netflix, OPPO India, Amazon, Tira Beauty,  Canva India and more.


1862: A groundbreaking branded content and influencer marketing agency with active campaigns in 22 

countries and teams in Russia, Poland, Nigeria and Japan.


GCN: The full-service strategic and creative agency at the intersection of advertising, branded content, communication design and social media.


Hypothesis: Over two decades of working with agencies, brands and influencers has helped us identify gaps and challenges in influencer marketing, resulting in Hypothesis, a comprehensive AI-enabled influencer marketing platform that services the entire influencer marketing journey and has executed more than 150 campaigns.


Key responsibilities:
  • Build and lead client roster of brands based in the Middle East that wish to participate in content and culture marketing.
  • Develop and validate strategies for brands that partner with the OML’s agency business, tools vertical or artist roster.
  • Project management across functions (creative, production, account management and finance)
  • Ensuring adherence to brand goals, targets, 360 degree opportunities and budget efficiencies.
  • Build and Service relationships with key stakeholders (artists, clients and brand partners).
  • Have a network of strong working relationships with brand partners to leverage business development opportunities.
  • Enable teams with research and insights, identify culture trends and references - backed with data and strengthened by qualitative inputs.
  • Support the management team with new business model validation  and assist in integration as per the business KRAs.
  • Provide strategic support for existing lines of business
  • Understand the various business verticals and the competitive environment
  • Provide inputs to the Management team on the emerging consumer/business/competitive trends
Skills
  • Total 14+ years of experience in the digital content and management/branded content/creator management/media space.
  • Have a holistic understanding of social media operations, media measurement, and campaign deployment and have worked on end-to-end digital campaign strategies from planning to execution.
  • Ability to simultaneously work left brain logic and right brain magic driving both business objectives and creative excellence.
  • Have an entrepreneurial mindset and thrive in fast-paced and collaborative environments.
  • Ability to work across time zones, diverse cultures and markets which don’t have English as a native language.
  • Independent and result oriented.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent analytical and presentation skills.
Our values:
  1. We build opportunities for our artists, brands and fans; and it’s important for us to be reliable and efficient.
  2. We demonstrate honesty, excellence and commitment to success.
  3. ‘It’s not my job’ is not part of our vocabulary, we even stuff envelopes.
  4. We make mistakes, but only to learn from them to build resilience.
  5. We take care of ourselves and our colleagues.
  6. We are our own managers.
  7. We are committed to equality and inclusion.
  8. We are mindful of the strain on the Earth's resources and are committed to reversing the trend with our behaviors where possible
  9. Aside from the fact that you can chance upon your favorite comedians, bump into our furry friends while you grab a cup of coffee and get inside access to some of the coolest festivals in the country.
  10. We ensure all our team members get enough down-time: We have monthly mandatory offs. We don't have a punch-in punch-out culture.
    We are ready to level up everyday: You bring the passion, we deliver the (countless) opportunities.
  11. We ensure everyone in the OML fam is taken care of: We offer free mental health care for all team members, we have gender neutral POSH & Parental leave policies, and our insurance policies extend to your in-laws as well!
  12. We have fun while we're at it: Game Nights, FRI-YAYs, KnOML and much more!
  13. We recognize talent: You bring the passion, we deliver the (countless) opportunities.

    Thank you!

    Thank you for taking the time to go through the opportunity we have to offer.  
    If you apply, please do not share your photo, age, gender, religion or ethnicity in your resume. You do not even need to share your last name.  (We want to eliminate biases on any of these parameters while we decide on our shortlisted candidates)
    We will get in touch with you if your profile gets shortlisted.

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