Senior Director, Talent at Masterclass · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Leads the talent function end to end. Owns booking for our newest lines, leads a team of four, and is the single senior point of contact for talent across the company. Player-coach: carries a slate and leads the people who carry the rest.
As Senior Director of Talent, you'll lead the team that finds, signs, and stewards the instructors behind everything we make — original classes, certificate programs, cohort-based programs, live events, and our podcast. You'll carry your own book of business, personally closing talent for our newest and fastest-growing lines, while leading two directors on the booking side and two in talent relations. You'll partner closely with Creative, Production, Marketing, and Go-to-Market to convert access into signed instructors and to keep every relationship healthy long after launch. A credible closer and a steady leader, you'll bring order to how talent demand enters the company, build the deal infrastructure this function has run without, and represent talent's work — and its limits — to company leadership.
Lead and develop a team of four across talent acquisition and talent relations
Set coverage and assignments across Core, Marquee, certificates, cohorts, podcast, and events; ensure no line runs unowned
Arbitrate load across the team and protect capacity; escalate early when demand outpaces it
Build the development path this function has not had, including a promotion track into director roles
Run postmortems on closed deals and launched classes to compound what the team learns
Personally book instructors for cohort-based programs, podcast, and live programming, plus overflow across classes and certificates
Negotiate and close agreements directly with talent, agents, managers, and enterprise partners
Set and maintain fee benchmarks and deal structures across the slate; know when to walk
Partner with senior sourcing relationships across the company to convert high-tier access into signed instructors
Pressure-test instructor choices with Creative and Insights for brand fit, audience appeal, and commercial potential

Senior Director, Talent

Responsibilities

Qualification

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Company

Masterclass

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