Deputy, Operations and Strategy

Deputy, Operations and Strategy Founding Phase

Location: Barcelona / surrounding areas

Dear reader:

This is a founding-stage collaboration, not a replacement for your current profession. It is designed for someone who already has a stable life and career, but feels the need to build something more meaningful alongside it.

If you are drawn to the audiovisual world, carry a serious love for films and series, and can imagine creating something that begins discreetly and grows into something significant over the next two to three years, you may be in the right place.

This project is a marathon and we will fail more than once: it starts from zero, without institutional backing or external protection. Progress will not be linear, and certainty will be rare. The work requires someone who understands that failure is part of the path, who can help adjust course when needed, and who keeps moving forward when conditions change.

You must also be comfortable with a long horizon. Realistically, this is not something to live off in the short term. The transition toward meaningful economic return would come between year three and year five. Money is not the driver here; it is the outcome of good decisions, discipline, and endurance.

The project follows a true startup philosophy: Progress comes through iteration, experimentation, correction, and persistence. Roles evolve, assumptions are tested, and structure is built only when necessary.

At its core, this venture is about building an audiovisual project from the ground up — developing structure, strategy, and creative foundations that can support meaningful content and scale over time, without relying on existing industry machinery.

The role

This is a Deputy, Operations and Strategy role during the founding phase.

You will work closely with me, helping to build and shape the project as it evolves. This includes thinking through strategy, phases, and execution — what needs to be built first, what comes next, and how growth should unfold over time — while helping navigate uncertainty and translate that thinking into structure, priorities, and concrete next steps.

A central part of the role is operations. Together, we will define what needs to exist at each phase of the project: the type and number of collaborators required, when they are needed, and how responsibilities should be structured over time. This requires a solid understanding of company operations and basic business economics — how costs, resources, timing, and structure interact — so that growth is deliberate, realistic, and sustainable.

This is not a traditional managerial position. It is a foundational role based on trust, judgment, and proximity to the core of the project.

Candidate profile

• Location: based in Barcelona or surrounding areas

• Background: local and international profiles are equally valued; Catalan and international talent are both welcome

• Age: ideal candidate between 35 and 55

• Gender: any gender

• Professional background: background with deep knowledge of or/and a genuine passion for the audiovisual world

• Industry understanding: you understand the political, complex, and constantly changing nature of the audiovisual world

- Economics & operations:

Solid understanding of company economics (costs, structure, sustainability, trade-offs)

- Execution: you are a hands-on doer, not only a thinker; you are comfortable turning ideas into concrete actions

- Marketing sense: you have well-established marketing concepts and understand positioning, audience-building, and traction at an early stage

• Experience, skeletons & scars: you have real experience, including successes and failures, and accept failure as part of the journey

• Resilience: you do not quit when things get difficult; you reassess, adjust, and continue

• Loyalty: you understand your role and its scope and commit seriously over time

• Mindset: can-do attitude; no naysaying — you ask instead "how can we do this?"

• Thinking style: strategic, imaginative, comfortable thinking outside the box, solution-oriented

• Uncertainty: calm and effective under uncertainty and pressure

• Communication: clear, constructive, and positive

• Languages: good command of English required; additional languages welcome (Spanish, French, German, Catalan are a plus)

- Commitment: you can reliably dedicate at least five hours per week and understand this is a long-term build, with the potential to become your main professional focus within 24 months, and fully so from year three onward

How to apply

If this speaks to you, please include a short note addressing the following:

1- What you are looking for professionally at this stage of your life

2- Why this collaboration resonates with you now

3- How you see yourself evolving over the next few years

4- Your personal take on failure and success

Honesty matters more than political correctness. There is no such thing as a "correct" answer.

You may also attach a brief CV or LinkedIn profile, focused on meaningful experience rather than exhaustive detail.

Thanks for reading and good luck

Job Type: Permanent

Work Location: In person

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