Role Overview
The Head of Talent is a senior function at Fellas Studios, owning the relationships that sit at the heart of our shows: our on-screen talent, the guests that drive our biggest moments, and the new creators and personalities who'll front our next wave of shows.
This is an individual contributor role reporting to the COO, working closely with the Director of Content Strategy on new show development.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Own the relationships with all existing Fellas Studios on-screen talent, ensuring they feel valued, supported, and bought into the long-term vision.
- Work with the team on contract negotiations
- Identify and sign new on-screen talent for future Fellas Studios shows, working closely with the team on which formats and personalities to pursue.
- Build and maintain a constantly refreshed pipeline of talent leads, from established names to emerging creators, that informs our slate planning
- Personally secure tier-one guests for our existing shows: the names that move the needle culturally, drive the biggest numbers.
- Act as the senior point of contact for talent agents, managers, PR firms, and publicists across the celebrity, entertainment, and creator landscape.
- Spot and surface new show opportunities that emerge from talent conversations and bring them into the content strategy process
- Represent Fellas Studios externally at industry events, premieres, and relationship-building moments
- Be a trusted internal advisor to the COO and Director of Content Strategy on talent strategy, market movements, and risk
Requirements
- Significant experience working directly with talent, ideally in talent management, agency, PR, or a senior booking/talent role.
- A strong existing book of contacts across celebrity and PR/management circles, with a working understanding of the creator and influencer ecosystem
- A proven track record of building long-term, trust-based relationships with talent, agents, and managers, rather than transactional ones
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-output environments where multiple priorities and conversations run in parallel
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbal, with the polish to represent Fellas Studios externally.
- Highly proactive: you bring opportunities to the table
- Commercially aware, able to work alongside the COO on contract terms and understand the business impact of talent decisions
- Based in London and able to work from our studio four days a week
Salary
Competitive Salary DOE
Benefits
- Pension Scheme (5% company match)
- 25 days paid holiday per year
- Christmas shutdown period
- Learning & Development budget
- Internal Referral Scheme
- Mental Health Days
- Monthly Nails
- Quarterly Socials
- Weekly Breakfast
- Birthday Lay-in
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative, and collaborative environment
Equal Opportunity
We’re committed to equality of opportunity. We employ many nationalities and think it's extremely important to have representation across functions and levels. All individuals will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law, regardless of age, disability, gender, pregnancy and maternity, marital status, race, religion or sexual orientation.