Partnerships Manager, Tortoise Media
Up to 25% bonus if full time (50% based on personal performance, 50% on company)
4-5 days a week in office
What’s different about us is slow news. We don’t do breaking news, but what’s driving the news.
Job no longer available
What’s different about us is slow news. We don’t do breaking news, but what’s driving the news.
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
Up to 25% bonus if full time (50% based on personal performance, 50% on company)
4-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
The world needs a different kind of newsroom. Not chasing breaking news, but revealing what’s driving it. Built to cover stories not as they happen, but when they’re ready. Where everyone has a seat at the table. We’re here to build journalism that lasts. A business model that’s responsible and sustainable.
Role
Who you are
- ~3 years account/partnership management experience or similar
- Experience working in a creative environment with multiple teams balancing different priorities (commercial and delivery)
- Experience working closely with Exec-level stakeholders
- Multi-tasker - able to keep track of multiple projects at one time
- Highly organised - able to keep track of progress across the business
- A sound knowledge of currents affairs
- Proactive - able to take an initial idea, and run with it
- Positive attitude - able to handle changing goals / targets
- Unflappable under pressure - work with tight turnaround time
What the job involves
- Responsible for the relationship management of key partner accounts
- Includes regular check-ins with key partners; overall responsibility for the delivery of partnerships; oversight and management of Tortoise Studios and Tortoise Intelligence products ensuring delivery within the agreed timeframe and objectives having been met
- Coordinating across all Tortoise teams: editorial, ThinkIn team, design, marketing, tech, to drive progress and deliver projects to partners; preempting possible blockers / challenges and making sure the wider Tortoise team is briefed and understands the objectives in advance
- Briefing Tortoise editors; working with the ThinkIn team on logistics; managing details such as branding; managing invitation lists; managing any outputs are delivered afterwards in a timely manner by working with the editorial and design team e.g. video, readout, podcast
Salary benchmarks
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Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Funding (1 round)
Feb 2022
$13.5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $13.5m
Our take
Tortoise Media was founded in 2017, unveiling its innovative slow news-based platform. It chimed with a UK audience eager for a deeper understanding of a news agenda dominated by the fall-out from Brexit and the exploits of the US President Donald Trump. The platform's creation is a response to the overwhelm of information resulting from newsrooms chasing stories and missing the bigger picture, and the widening divide between the powerful and the powerless in the media.
Traditional newsrooms can miss important stories because they run too fast. Tortoise 'slow news' approach encompasses taking the time to investigate unreported stories, trying to make sense of what’s driving the news and listening out for different points of view, rather than jumping to 'breaking news' stories.
Tortoise has grown its paid membership to around 50k members since its full launch in 2019. Membership prices range from £50 to £450, with free deals for students. The company intends to grow its paid individual and professional membership, including a renewed focus on events to help build up that membership base and reach a wider audience. It will also put more focus on its audio journalism, as the audience for its podcasts reached almost 3 million monthly downloads in December 2021.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle