• Define Studio Vision: Develop and communicate a clear vision for the studio, aligning it with the company's overall goals and objectives.
• Strategic Planning: Formulate strategic plans to guide the studio's growth, development, and market positioning.
• Identify Opportunities: Explore and identify new business opportunities, partnerships, and potential areas for growth.
• Drive day-to-day studio operations and cross-department collaboration: oversee IT, Legal, Production, HR, Recruitment.
• Drive operational efficiencies, quality, and cost reduction: Streamline operations within the service departments; ensure that processes are efficient, well-defined, easily adopted, and quickly learned by new team members.
• Drive company’s quarterly and yearly OKR: Develop, implement and monitor a system of operational KPIs across departments, ensuring the company’ system of operational KPIs is aligned with the company's strategy and scale plan.
• Establish effective process-level cooperation with the CEO, CFO, Head of BD, Production, Marketing aimed at scaling and growing revenue and margins.
• Build and Lead Teams: Drive recruitment, hire, and management of an extraordinary team of professionals that love what they do and are excited to drive excellence on each level of the company.
• Team Culture: Foster a culture of curiosity, accountability and teamwork, that encourages efficiency and innovation.
• Professional Growth: In collaboration with HR drive support ongoing training and professional development opportunities for studio employees.
• Talent Retention: Foster an environment that promotes employee satisfaction and retention.
• Develop and execute Studio strategy to achieve revenue and margin targets: services portfolio strategy, pricing strategy, capacity management and hiring strategy, target Studio org. chart and management org. structure.
• Take ownership of (assume responsibility over) the Studio P&L: Decompose budget targets and execution responsibility to specific Studio-level key management positions; in collaboration with the CFO provide monthly Studio management reporting, quarterly Studio forecasting, and annual Studio budgeting processes, to track revenue and margins consistently.
• In collaboration with the Head of Production establish effective capacity planning tools, capacity, and bench risk management frameworks, aligned with the strategy and budget targets; Partner with the CFO and CEO to establish effective motivation plans and bonus systems linked to sales, revenue, and margins.
