About Us
Pocket FM is the world’s largest audio-series platform, where powerful stories travel effortlessly across languages, cultures, and continents. From India and the US to Europe and beyond, we are redefining how stories are created, discovered, and experienced across the globe, without screens.
At our core, we are an AI-powered entertainment company with a deeply human-first philosophy. We believe technology should amplify creativity. Our proprietary AI systems work alongside writers, voice artists, and creative teams to help stories scale globally, faster, smarter, and with cultural depth and emotional integrity intact.
Today, Pocket FM is home to a vibrant community of 250+ million listeners, 300,000+ creators, and 100,000+ audio series. With over 140 billion minutes streamed annually, we have emerged as one of the fastest-growing media-tech companies in the world, and we are just getting started. We operate at a massive global scale, but with a startup mindset: curious, fast-moving, and deeply owner-driven. At Pocket FM, teams are encouraged to think boldly, move with intent, and build for long-term impact as we shape the future of audio-first storytelling worldwide.
Role Overview
As the Team Lead for Portuguese Sketches, you oversee the end-to-end production workflow, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and timely delivery of localized content. You lead a cross-functional team and ensure alignment between English and Portuguese Sketches while maintaining strict audio, visual, and subtitle quality standards.
In addition to overseeing production workflow, this role functions as a key operational stabilizer within the Portuguese content ecosystem. The Team lead ensures asset readiness, prevents production bottlenecks, bridges cross-time-zone collaboration, and safeguards content integrity across localized adaptations, enabling consistent and reliable execution at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Workflow Management
* Team Leadership & Workflow Management: Assign daily tasks, prioritize deliverables, and ensure smooth coordination across Video Editors and QC Specialists.
* Production Continuity Ownership: Ensure editors are never blocked due to missing assets, incomplete folders, or lack of resource preparation. Proactively prepare videos, audios, scripts, and subtitles before daily production begins.
* Cross-Team Asset Coordination: Act as liaison between Spanish/Portugeuse production, US content teams, and India stakeholders to request, follow up, and secure required assets in a timely manner.
* Process Standardization: Develop and maintain internal documentation (SOPs, transition guides, tracking frameworks) to support workflow clarity, team alignment, and smooth leadership transitions.
Reporting, Assets & Documentation
* Reporting & Performance Tracking: Submit daily performance reports and monitor output, quality, and timelines.
* Asset & Process Management: Oversee asset organization, repository accuracy, and workflow improvements to enhance efficiency and scalability.
* Repository & Documentation Management: Maintain structured asset repositories, matching sheets, and tracking documents to ensure transparency and avoid duplication, inconsistencies, or production gaps.
Quality & Content Oversight
* Quality Oversight: Ensure full synchronization between visuals, audio, and subtitles;
consistent visual style;
complete audio mix (vocals, music, SFX);
and no unintended logosor asset errors.
* English–Portuguese Alignment: Maintain narrative and visual coherence between source and localized content.
* Content Integrity Assurance: Monitor alignment between English source content and Portuguese localized assets across motion episodes, still episodes, promo videos, and thumbnails to ensure narrative coherence and platform consistency.
Operations & Issue Resolution
* Technical Issue Resolution: Address audio/video sync issues, asset inconsistencies, and day-to-day production challenges.
* Daily Operational Troubleshooting: Resolve audio inconsistencies, subtitle mismatches, CMS issues, visual discrepancies, and asset errors to maintain high production standards.
Reporting, Assets & Documentation
* Reporting & Performance Tracking: Submit daily performance reports and monitor output, quality, and timelines.
* Asset & Process Management: Oversee asset organization, repository accuracy, and workflow improvements to enhance efficiency and scalability.
* Repository & Documentation Management: Maintain structured asset repositories, matching sheets, and tracking documents to ensure transparency and avoid duplication, inconsistencies, or production gaps.
Operations & Issue Resolution
* Technical Issue Resolution: Address audio/video sync issues, asset inconsistencies, and day-to-day production challenges.
* Daily Operational Troubleshooting: Resolve audio inconsistencies, subtitle mismatches, CMS issues, visual discrepancies, and asset errors to maintain high production standards.
* Risk Prevention & Escalation: Identify operational risks (delays, inconsistencies, technical issues) early and escalate proactively to prevent impact on timelines and overall production output.
Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree in Audio Production, Linguistics, Media, or a related field.
* Intermediate to advanced English proficiency, with advanced knowledge of Portuguese grammar and orthography.
* Proven experience in quality control, audio/video production, or a related content operations role.
* Proficiency in Adobe Suite (including Premiere);
familiarity with CMS platforms required. Experience reviewing AI-generated content is a plus.
* Strong attention to detail with a critical eye for audiovisual quality and consistency.
* Demonstrated leadership and team management experience.
* Excellent organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.
* Strong problem-solving abilities with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
* Demonstrated ability to act as operational backbone in high-volume content environments, ensuring production continuity and workflow stability.
* Proven experience anticipating production risks (asset gaps, sync inconsistencies, narrative misalignment) and implementing preventive solutions before escalation.
* Strong cross-cultural communication skills, with experience bridging expectations between international stakeholders (e.G., US and India teams) and local production teams.
* Experience building structured documentation, repositories, and tracking systems that enhance team clarity and reduce operational friction.
* Ability to maintain narrative and technical coherence despite creative divergence across markets.
* High level of ownership and accountability over end-to-end production outcomes.
* Strategic operational mindset with the ability to balance creative integrity, technical precision, and workflow efficiency.
Language requirements
* Fluent Portugese
* Professional working proficiency in English
This role will be working with stakeholders in English on a regular basis.
Salary for this position is R$7,000 - $10,000 BRL.