Partner, Media and Brand

Praxis•New York, NY

2d•$170,000 - $195,000

About The Position

Praxis is hiring a senior creative leader to lead its in-house media production team and serve as one of its most senior leaders. The role leads the team that imagines, develops, and produces Praxis’s films and content series, brand and design work, editorial writing, and campaigns, and helps bring that work to the right audiences. Reporting to the Managing Partner, Media, Brand and Product, the Partner will develop the studio into a high-performing agency and production house, integrating strategy, development, production, and distribution. The role combines creative studio leadership with brand stewardship. The Partner will help keep the Praxis brand coherent across audience touchpoints, work across teams to integrate it throughout the organization, and lead adaptation of Praxis Media for regions and languages around the world. The role emphasizes creative producing, team building, and implementation over serving as the sole creative director or author of ideas. The leader is expected to coach and develop the creative team, establish strong operating systems, and ensure work is completed and distributed at a consistently high standard. Praxis seeks a humble, ambitious, high-EQ leader with at least 15 years of experience across creative leadership settings, a record of producing standout work at scale, and experience building teams and creative capabilities. The role involves developing internal talent and a network of mission-aligned creative partners, as well as expanding the studio’s reach and localization approach across Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, and South America. New York City is preferred; remote work may be considered for a highly experienced candidate. Travel includes quarterly team meetings, the annual Praxis Summit, and other meetings and events as needed; Praxis covers travel expenses.

Requirements

At least 15 years of experience in creative leadership, ideally across agency, client or in-house, and entrepreneurial or startup settings.
A track record of producing standout creative work at a high standard and building and leading multidisciplinary teams.
Experience establishing or scaling a media production team, in-house agency, or production capability.
Experience owning or stewarding a brand across multiple audiences, channels, or markets.
Experience managing agency, studio, and freelance relationships across disciplines.
A portfolio demonstrating range and taste across formats, including work that moved people.
Excellent creative taste and the tenacity and rigor to turn vision into completed, distributed work.
Ability to coach and develop people, draw out their strengths, and lead with high emotional intelligence and humility.
Ability to build a creative function or studio from the foundation and develop the team and systems around it.
Strong brand instincts and experience building and protecting a brand across audiences and touchpoints.
Ability to shift between high-level vision and hands-on production detail.
Strong creative judgment across film, video, design, writing, and brand.
Ability to build and maintain a network of creative partners, agencies, and freelancers.
Operational discipline across budgets, timelines, workflows, and tools.
Fluency with the Praxis tool suite, including Airtable, Slack, Asana, Notion, Figma, Adobe, and Google Suite.
Comfort using Praxis digital tools, including Google Suite, Dropbox, Keynote, Airtable, Slack, Asana, Typeform, and Ramp.
Resourcefulness, openness to feedback, and willingness to own work through completion.
Demonstrated alignment with Praxis’s theological identity, mission to advance redemptive entrepreneurship, and values of operational excellence, humility, and service.
Willingness to participate in shared organizational rhythms, including daily team prayer and a company-wide weekly Sabbath.

Nice To Haves

Experience across agency, client or in-house, and entrepreneurial or startup settings.
Experience with film, design, writing, and music creative partners.
Experience adapting media for international regions and languages.

Responsibilities

Partner with the studio team and Managing Partner to set and carry the creative and editorial vision for Praxis.
Build and lead the studio so strategy, development, production, and distribution operate as an integrated capability.
Maintain creative quality and taste standards across studio output and continually seek ways to improve the work.
Serve as creative producer across films, series, brand work, and campaigns, participating directly in creative development and production when needed.
Carry projects through completion and build systems, workflows, and tools that support consistent, high-quality production at volume.
Lead, coach, and develop the media creative and production team, including the Sr. Director, Design; Director, Content & Creative; Principal; Managing Editor; and Manager, Studio Operations.
Build out the studio team as the work grows and establish the support, clarity, and operating rhythms needed for effective work.
Expand how Praxis Media reaches and grows audiences across channels, including through strategic partners.
Drive the localization roadmap for Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, and South America.
Work with the Marketing and Operations leader to connect creative work with audience reach, engagement, and impact.
Build and steward relationships with mission-aligned creative partners, studios, and freelancers across disciplines.
Determine which work is produced in-house and which is produced through partners, and manage those partnerships.
Identify and cultivate mission-aligned partners and channels to reach new and engaged audiences.
Serve alongside the Managing Partner, Media, Brand and Product, as a primary leader responsible for brand stewardship and cultivation across the Praxis ecosystem.
Work with the Managing Partner and teams to integrate the brand across audience touchpoints, including Partners in Venture, Redemptive Imagination Project, and organizational capabilities.
Steward the Praxis brand and voice across outputs and uphold honest, beautiful, and good redemptive storytelling that honors subjects and audiences.
Contribute as a member of the Praxis Partner team to enterprise-building in service of the broader organizational mission and strategies.