Job Description
Location: London-based (minimum 2 days in office)
Reporting to: Executive Director
Term: 4 days (32 hours) per week
Pay: £40,000 per annum (pro rata of £50,000 full-time equivalent)
Deadline: 5pm Monday February 2nd 2026
Planet B make progressive media. From standalone documentary projects such as Overshoot (audio) and Boomerang (video), to regular podcasts like Macrodose, our productions seek to bring radical ideas, critical histories and original storytelling to wide audiences.
The Head of Production at Planet B will be responsible for turning ambitious editorial ideas into high-quality, scalable productions across audio, video, and live event formats. In the short term, this is a highly hands-on role: leading the development of Planet B’s new in-house video podcast studio, establishing production workflows, and directly producing and delivering a slate of new studio-based video podcasts for platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and Tiktok.
Working closely with the Executive Director and Head of Operations, the Head of Production will combine practical production leadership with strategic oversight - managing budgets and schedules, coordinating freelance producers, technicians, and editors, and ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and to a high technical standard. As Planet B scales its output and operations, this role will increasingly focus on building and managing an in-house production team, alongside our freelance network.
This role offers a significant leadership opportunity within a fast-growing organisation at the cutting edge of progressive digital media, with meaningful scope to shape Planet B’s creative and editorial direction.