Job description
BLINKINK and Blink Industries are looking for a PR & Social Media Manager who can strategise, create, and captivate. We’re looking for someone who can help showcase our work, amplify our presence, and engage our audiences. If you’re proactive, entrepreneurial, and ready to make an impact we want to hear from you.
What You’ll Do:
- Strategy & Management: Develop and execute strategies for all our social media platforms across BLINKINK and Blink Industries, and supporting our Creator talent.
- Content Creation: Produce daily content, including creative concepts, copywriting, and visual assets for our social channels.
-Campaigns: Design and implement social media and PR campaigns that enhance our brand voice and share our work with the world.
- Community Building: Grow and engage our audiences who love our TV, film, commercials, music videos, and game projects.
- Newsletters: Create and distribute regular newsletters to our partners, agencies, and clients.
- PR Coordination: Commission external PR agencies for major IP launches.
- Reporting: Provide insightful weekly reports analysing performance metrics and offering actionable insights using Google Analytics and social platform analytics.
- Continuous Improvement: Evaluate and refine our campaigns to ensure maximum impact in a dynamic entertainment landscape.
- Partnerships: Liaise with cultural partners like Film London Flamin and BFI Future Film Festival.
- Collaboration: Work with creative, production, and sales teams to ensure our social channels tell authentic stories about our brand, work, and talent.
- Awards Management: Identify and submit projects for awards, curating assets and writing submissions.
What You’ll Bring:
- Passion: A genuine love for the entertainment industry and the creative work of BLINKINK and Blink Industries.
- Strategic Skills: Ability to develop and execute digital strategies that align with our creative vision and business goals.
- Analytical Ability: Strong analytical skills to turn data into actionable insights and optimise campaigns.
- Collaboration: Experience building cross-functional relationships and working effectively with internal and external teams.
- Writing Skills: Exceptional writing and editing abilities for engaging a diverse, global audience.
- Project Management: Proven track record of managing projects and meeting deadlines.
- Experience: 5 years in communications or social media management within the animation, TV, music, creative, film, video games, or similar industries.
Animation knowledge is helpful but not essential.
If you feel like you could be the right fit for this role, please send your CV and Cover Letter to jobs@blinkindustries.tv
The Package
We offer hybrid working with Monday to Thursdays spent in the office and Fridays WFH.
Holidays are 25 days (based on full-time roles).
Company pension scheme.
The Agency
Blink Industries/Blinkink is an Emmy, BAFTA, Cannes Lions, and D&AD-winning entertainment development studio and production company. We are mixed-media specialists blending live action and animation in innovative ways for TV, film, commercials, music videos, and video games. We have a highly creative culture and a diverse skill-set, with a team capable of producing high-end 2D, stop motion, live-action, CGI, puppets, and post.
- COMMERCIALS: with agencies including Wieden & Kennedy, Mother, Droga5, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, and Johannes Leonardo. Clients include Amazon Music, BBC, Channel 4, Spotify, Adidas, Devolver, and John Lewis.
- TV (ORIGINAL): Dead End: Paranormal Park (Netflix), Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Channel 4, The BFI) which evolved from our YouTube series and received a BAFTA for Production Design, Peter and the Wolf (HBO Max, BBC Studios), The Sunnyridge 3 (Disney+) a homegrown animated comedy series currently in production.
- TV (SERVICE): Headspace: Guide to Sleep/Meditation (Netflix), Love Death & Robots (Netflix/Blur Studios), Dora and the Lost City Of Gold (Paramount/Nickelodeon), The Future Of (Netflix/The Verge/Vox Media)
- MUSIC VIDEOS: with artists including Dua Lipa, Elton John, Iron Maiden, The Weeknd & Ariana Grande and Gorillaz.
- VIDEO GAMES: We have a slate of original IPs currently pitching to publishers & platforms.
We started out in 2005 as a short-form commercial production company and have since grown to encompass two North London sites, 50+ full-time staff, a talent roster of 30+ creatives/writers/directors, and a 130-seat animation studio.
As a creative-led, owner-operated, fully independent company, we are passionate about working with unique talent and telling stories that look and feel like no other. We pride ourselves on the inventive, craft-centric approach that we take to our development slate and productions. The role is London-based and we enjoy a predominantly in-person culture, with everyone in the studio 4 days a week.