VP, Corporate Brand & Storyground

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$216K/yr – $253K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Global Corporate Brand:
  • - Business Narratives – Lead the development support pitches and presentations for major deals, advertising partnerships, affiliate renegotiations, content sales initiatives, executive communications, and other high-priority business needs. Own the creative vision, visual strategy, and narrative structure while partnering closely with Media Solutions, Distribution, Global Content Sales, and Research. Serve as the central point of narrative development, bringing deep industry knowledge and mastery of A+E Global Media’s brands, series, and differentiators.
  • - Serve as the steward of A+E Global Media’s voice and narrative, ensuring consistency across external messaging, internal communications, executive storytelling, and major enterprise initiatives. Ensure alignment of creative output across all internal-facing and external-facing communications, maintaining a cohesive and recognizable brand presence across the organization.
  • - Define and evolve the enterprise narrative framework for A+E Global Media, ensuring key business priorities, partnerships, and communications are anchored in a clear, consistent, and strategically aligned story.
  • - Multidisciplinary Creative Oversight – Oversee the Corporate Brand creative team by guiding the creative process, shaping briefs, and elevating work quality. Partner closely with Creative Directors to ensure work meets the highest creative and strategic standards. Maintain alignment across all collateral by evolving and enforcing creative guidelines and acting as the final creative checkpoint prior to internal or client-facing release.
  • - Corporate Digital – Own and advance A+E Global Media’s B2B digital presence across the Media Solutions Portfolio site, aegm.com, Global Content Sales Site, and A+E Factual Studios site, and other B2B sites. Champion digital-first formats and new ways of digital storytelling, evangelizing and integrating new products and tools for the team.
  • - Internal Communications & Cultural Brand Leadership – Lead the creative development of internal communications, leadership messaging, and cultural storytelling initiatives, ensuring alignment between company values, leadership priorities, and employee experience.
  • - Creative Strategy – Define and evolve the team’s creative strategy, fostering strong critical thinking and concept development. Lead brainstorms and develop original creative solutions across business needs including campaign concepts, video ideas, naming systems, communication plans, digital product recommendations, and competitive benchmarking.
  • Storyground:
  • - Team Oversight – Lead and develop the Storyground branded content studio, setting the creative vision, quality bar, and pitch standards for the team. Partner with senior creative leaders to build scalable workflow infrastructure, develop team capabilities, and ensure all creative output reflects A+E Global Media’s best-in-class standard for branded content.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in branded content, creative leadership, advertising, media partnerships, brand marketing, or related fields
  • Proven track record of building and leading high-performing creative teams across multiple functions
  • Strong commercial instincts and experience driving revenue through creative pitches, partnerships, and business narratives
  • Deep knowledge of the branded content landscape across linear, digital, and social media
  • Executive-level communication and client relationship management skills; comfortable presenting to C-suite, agency leadership, and senior internal stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to shape enterprise narratives, executive communications, and internal/external brand expression
  • Ability to balance competing creative and business priorities and lead at speed in a high-visibility, pitch-driven environment
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Production, Programming, Distribution, and other senior stakeholders
  • Strong organizational leadership skills, including team development, operating model design, and cross-functional alignment
  • High proficiency in Keynote and PowerPoint; strong presentation development and visual storytelling sensibility

Preferred

  • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Airtable, and Box preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Communications, Journalism, or related field preferred
  • Existing relationships in the advertising, agency, and brand partnership ecosystem preferred

Benefits

  • healthcare coverage, 401k matching, and a range of other benefits.

Salaries

Posted range

$216K/yr – $253K/yr

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VP, Corporate Brand & Storyground

A+E Networks · New York City, NY · Hybrid