Head of Operations & Production

We’re hiring a Head of Operations & Production: a senior, part-time role at the operational centre of BEYOND Studio, reporting jointly to both directors, Tara Solesbury and Sam Michel.

You’ll create a dedicated operational layer that keeps the whole organisation moving, coordinating a mixed team of freelancers, senior consultants and PAYE staff, maintaining resourcing and budget oversight, and ensuring every project, whatever the sector or geography, is properly tracked, documented and delivered on time.

You’ll sit between the two directors who set strategy and budgets and the delivery team who deliver the work. You’ll be proactive, with the confidence to chase, flag and challenge bottlenecks wherever they occur, including with the directors. In return, you get real autonomy over how the work gets delivered, a growing scope for financial responsibility, and a direct say in shaping the studio’s direction as it takes on more corporate clients, international projects and consortium bids.

In your first few months, the delivery team will be working from one clear system for who’s doing what, with you as first port of call for delivery questions. Within a year, you’ll be running monthly budget and margin reporting and taking on a growing share of financial sign-off.

Contract: 4-5 days/week for the first three months (Sept-Nov, covering onboarding and BEYOND Conference delivery), reducing to a minimum of 3 days/week from January 2027. Salary: £45,000-£50,000 FTE pro rata, reviewed annually. Remote-first, UK-based, with in-person meetings in Bath and Brighton. Start: mid-September 2026. Benefits: 28 days annual leave pro rata.