Hybrid YouTube Shorts Channel Manager

Posted 4 weeks ago

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About the role

  • YouTube Shorts Channel Manager overseeing short-form video performance for LADbible, UNILAD, and SPORTbible channels. Collaborating across editorial, production, and social teams to optimize content and monetization strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Own the day-to-day management of YouTube Shorts publishing across LADbible, UNILAD and SPORTbible, including scheduling, optimisation, metadata, and feed strategy.
  • Work closely with editorial, production and social teams to shape and activate a clear YouTube Shorts strategy.
  • Treat monetisation as a core KPI, alongside views and growth.
  • Analyse Shorts performance at scale - including view velocity, retention, engagement, monetisation signals and audience behaviour to continually refine publishing strategy.
  • Optimise Shorts for maximum discoverability within the Shorts feed, leveraging trends, sound usage, timing and format testing to drive channel growth and audience expansion across all three brands.
  • Ensure Shorts content is on-brand, IP-safe and consistently presented across LADbible, UNILAD and SPORTbible.
  • Stay ahead of YouTube Shorts updates, monetisation changes, algorithm shifts and competitive insights.

Requirements

  • 2–3+ years’ experience managing and scaling high-performing YouTube channels, with a strong focus on YouTube Shorts or short-form video.
  • A deep, current understanding of YouTube Shorts, including performance levers, monetisation mechanics and algorithmic discovery.
  • Proven experience using data to inform content decisions, with the ability to translate analytics into actionable strategy.
  • Strong commercial mindset, with experience optimising content for platform revenue as well as reach.
  • Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple brands, feeds and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Exceptional attention to detail, particularly around hooks, captions, timing and packaging.
  • An entrepreneurial, test-and-learn mentality, with a desire to build, iterate and improve systems and processes.

Benefits

  • LADbible Group is an equal opportunities employer.
  • Committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Job title

YouTube Shorts Channel Manager

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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