BEFORE YOU APPLY: Please read the compensation information at the bottom of the page
We are currently looking for a Chief Operating Officer to help us in the short-term structure our ops (recruiting, accounting, legal) and later take charge of debottlenecking and ensuring smooth operation throughout the whole company. You'd be working directly with our CEO, department leads, and (executive) producers.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
We are creating films, games and comics - stories with soul - for our own fantasy universe (think Lord of the Rings, Star Wars etc., but smaller - for now hehe). We started 4 years ago as a small team of folks that were initially supposed to package a TV show. Finding ourselves unable to give away our IP, we decided to build out the universe ourselves to retain (creative) control. Now, 4 years later, our rag-tag band of pirates has grown to over 150 members (far over 200 depending on how you count).
Our current slate includes 3 short films (2 in active development, 1 in post production, 30min each), a comic book series (9 issues of Season 1, 40+ pages/issue), and two games (one Card Game online and offline version featuring our characters and factions and one TTRPG with oneshots, campaign rules and region expansions). We also produce fantastic music, Shopify-sold merchandise, handcrafted art, documentaries about the making of Soul Atlas, Lore Videos, and Shorts.
We have been working on getting greenlight, production up, worldbuilding ready and marketing infrastructure set up. Now our task is mostly about improving the existing processes and bringing us into our first launches with financial implications (thus far, we took on some investment but have not made revenue yet - you first have to make a film to make box office).
Our burn is incredibly low (to the point where we can survive indefinitely) because all of us are taking future promise of revenue (more below) as payment, meaning you will have lots of chances to get it right. But our special set of circumstances also brings challenges with hr churn, production structure, engineered urgency, and (thus far) inability to move into paid customer acquisition due to lack of funds.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES: Establish the Ops Department
* You help structure and put together the operations team to ensure security and compliance (we have started it, you need to finish it)
* You help us structure the company's revenue shares/investor securities in collaboration with lawyers and the CEO
MIDTERM TO LONGTERM: Run the company as an operator
* You soft-audit and debottleneck all departments regularly
* You put in place and maintain a solid reporting infrastructure
* You identify weak points across the entire team structure and start up efforts to solve them
* You obsess with hiring key leadership roles and A-player specialists
* You help refine the company's strategy and take responsibility for operations strategy
YOU
are a diligent, personable, responsible, reachable leader and you ...
* Have a good understanding of Irish LTDs (or similar) and the required basics for compliance (audits, constitution, board(meetings) etc.)
* Have worked before with in-house and external lawyers to push through changes and creations of major contracts and adjustments in company constitutions
* Have run teams with 50+ members
* Have easy-to-understand, professional-level English
* Have excellent soft skills (conflict resolution, easy to get along with, empathetic leadership)
* Have a sense for responsible leadership (find bottlenecks, train producers/managers, identify missing skills in the team and take action, identify slowing momentum and counteract in a timely manner, identify and plug key person risk, be quick to respond to timely issues you yourself are the bottleneck to)
A PLUS:
* Experience with Launch-based entertainment industries (Games, Comics, Films, Events)
* A love for fantasy (think GOT, Witcher, LOTR, LOL etc.)
YOUR TEAMS
The teams you would be leading are organized into 4 major groups, with 3 out of 4 including multiple departments:
* Production (Departments: Comics, Films, Games)
* Support Departments (Departments: Art, Music, Writing, Worldbuilding, Sound, Fashion, Music Worldbuilding)
* Marketing (Departments: Videos, Documentary, Influencer/PR, Event, Copy, Design, Web, Data, Mail, Community)
* Operations
COMPENSATION DETAILS
Time Investment:
Part-time. Approximately 10-20 hours/week (flexible week on week, as we understand you may have other commitments).
Salary
:
At this point, there is no salary. We instead give parts of the company away:
Profit Participation:
We have been working on a system to ensure either a fixed profit participation or ownership for all team members. Due to multiple legal challenges, it is not written in stone yet but we have made significant progress (found vehicle, identified holding structure, FMV/BIK issue circumvented). You will receive more details upon reply. (Let me explain ^.^)
Thank you very much for considering the collaboration.
We hope to see you on the other side and that we grow together on these exciting projects
All the best,
Your Soul Atlas Team