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Whisper is a leading global production company, specialising in sports, unscripted and branded entertainment.

Our diverse team of over 285 international employees produce top-level sports such as Formula One, UEFA and The Paralympics, as well as branded content, prime time documentaries, and entertainment quiz shows for a raft of broadcasters.

Whisper’s creativity and storytelling are BAFTA-winning and Emmy International-nominated.

It is also a Sunday Times Best Places to Work.

Whisper North is looking for an experienced Casting Producer / Assistant Producer to work on a range of studio gameshows.

The role will involve sourcing and screening potential contestants through auditions and interviews to find engaging, charismatic participants who are the perfect fit for our various upcoming studio gameshows.

You will manage the full casting process from initial outreach through to final selection, working closely with the wider production team to ensure a diverse and compelling lineup for each episode

Casting experience across a range of studio gameshows essential.

Whisper is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, communities, and lived experiences. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and supported.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Executive Producer on all casting issues
• Talent Outreach: Actively scout, source, and recruit contributors using industry contacts, and creative advertising.
• Auditions & Interviews: Conduct initial screening calls, lead auditions, and interview applicants to gauge their on-screen suitability, personality, and storytelling potential.
• Due Diligence: Perform thorough background checks via Lexis Nexis, including vetting social media, to flag potential controversies and ensure editorial safety.
• Pitching Contributor Stories: Compile detailed biographies, pitch notes, and video highlight reels of top candidates to present to executive producers and network commissioners.
• Compliance & Welfare: Strictly enforce duty of care protocols, safeguarding and data protection regulations (GDPR)

Please note that responsibilities may be amended, added to, or removed to reflect the changing needs of the production or organisation.

Skills and Experience:

• Casting Experience on broadcast studio gameshows essential
• Storytelling & Editorial Judgment: An intuitive eye for what makes a compelling character
• Networking: An extensive contacts book and the ability to build rapport quickly with people
• Regulatory Knowledge: Thorough understanding of broadcasting standards diversity guidelines, and compliance.
• Team Leadership: Experience managing and mentoring junior members of the team, such as casting researchers and assistant producers
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Strong team ethic and the ability to prioritise workloads with ease, working in a pressurised team environment
• Ability to work effectively with others and manage relationships
• Ability to manage workload
• Flexibility and adaptability to changing workloads

Location:

Whisper Offices, Salford

Working Days:

Five-day week, with four days in the office and one day working from home.

Some flexibility is required, including occasional weekend work depending on production needs.

Lieu days will be given for any additional days worked.

Flexitime is available, subject to production requirements.

Start/End:

ASAP – 24^th Aug 2026

Salary:

Based on experience

Application Closing:

5^th June 2026

How to apply:

Please upload your CV and a covering letter telling us in your own way why you are the right candidate for this role here.

Whisper is a leading global production company, specialising in sports, unscripted and branded entertainment.

Our diverse team of over 285 international employees produce top-level sports such as Formula One, UEFA and The Paralympics, as well as branded content, prime time documentaries, and entertainment quiz shows for a raft of broadcasters.

Whisper’s creativity and storytelling are BAFTA-winning and Emmy International-nominated.

It is also a Sunday Times Best Places to Work.

Whisper North is looking for an experienced Production Coordinator to join the team to work on multiple studio game shows.

The post would suit a PC with a strong background of working on studio productions, including experience organising high volumes of crew and contributor travel, processing DBS checks, managing purchase orders and liaising with suppliers.

Whisper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, communities, and lived experiences. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and supported.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct support to the Production Manager and wider team, ensuring clear communication of key production information across all departments, crew, and talent
• Organise call sheets and book travel for production, crew, contributors, and talent in the UK
• Negotiate rates with external suppliers and crew
• Support the Production Manager with budget tracking, including raising purchase orders, processing expenses, reconciling petty cash, monitoring spend, and liaising with the finance team where appropriate
• Processing DBS checks
• Managing purchase orders

Please note that responsibilities may be amended, added to, or removed to reflect the changing needs of the production or organisation.

Knowledge, skills & experience

• Experience in high-volume studio programming, particularly game shows.
• Experience in managing supplier relationships
• Comfortable working in a busy, ever-changing environment
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• A proactive attitude to work and promoting a positive work ethic in the team
• Familiarity with broadcast production workflows & basic technical understanding
• Basic Budgeting Skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and production management tools
• Ability to work on your own initiative and ability to refer up when necessary
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to react quickly to project changes
• Flexibility and adaptability to changing workloads and new systems 

Location:

Whisper North offices, Salford. 

Working Days:

5 day week, x4 days in office and x1 day WFH.

This role will require a degree of flexibility and weekend working.

You will be expected to work with the team to plan a schedule based on production requirements.

Lieu days will be given for any days worked over a five-day work week.

Whisper offers the option of flextime hours, subject to production requirements.

Salary:

Based on experience

Start/End:

4 months FTC – 15^th June 2026 – 9^th Oct 2026

How to apply:

Please upload your CV and tell us in your own way why you are the right person for this opportunity here.

Whisper is a leading global production company, specialising in sports, unscripted and branded entertainment.

Our diverse team of over 285 international employees produce top-level sports such as Formula One, UEFA and The Paralympics, as well as branded content, prime time documentaries, and entertainment quiz shows for a raft of broadcasters.

Whisper’s creativity and storytelling are BAFTA-winning and Emmy International-nominated.

It is also a Sunday Times Best Places to Work.

We’re looking for an experienced Question Researcher and/or Assistant Producer to join our Whisper North team to work on the returning ITV daytime quiz, Riddiculous.

The post would suit experienced Question Researchers and Question Assistant Producers with experience of working on high-volume studio quiz shows, question researching and writing and a love of riddles.

Whisper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, communities, and lived experiences. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and supported.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Questions team
• Supporting the questions team with researching and writing questions for various games
• Ensuring that questions are fitting with the programme’s ethos
• Fact checking
• Anticipate the needs of Producers and support with the management of the Question Researcher
• Responsibilities in the studio include question and riddle prep for our gameplay team and presenters

Please note that responsibilities may be amended, added to, or removed to reflect the changing needs of the production or organisation.

Skills and Experience:

• Experience of working on game shows, ideally in a question assistant producer role
• Experience in writing questions for a variety of game shows
• Experience of fact-checking
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Strong team ethic and the ability to prioritise workloads with ease, working in a pressurised team environment
• Ability to work effectively with others and manage relationships in a diverse team
• Ability to manage workload, especially if working remotely and away from an office environment
• Flexibility and adaptability to changing workloads, new systems, and technologies

Location:

Whisper Offices, Salford.

Could consider remote working

Working Days:

Five-day work week, with four days in the office and one day working from home.

Some flexibility is required, including occasional weekend work depending on production needs.

Lieu days will be given for any additional days worked.

Flexitime is available, subject to production requirements.

Start date:

Various contract lengths

29^th June 2026 – 21^st August 2026
10^th August 2026 – 9^th October 2026
17^th August 2026 – 9^th October 2026

Application Closing:

Friday 5^th June 2026

Salary:

Dependent on experience.

How to apply:

Please upload your CV and tell us in your own way why you are the right person for this opportunity here.

Whisper is a leading global production company, specialising in sports, unscripted and branded entertainment.

Our diverse team of over 285 international employees produce top-level sports such as Formula One, UEFA and The Paralympics, as well as branded content, prime time documentaries, and entertainment quiz shows for a raft of broadcasters.

Whisper’s creativity and storytelling are BAFTA-winning and Emmy International-nominated.

It is also a Sunday Times Best Places to Work.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Production Manager and/or Production Executive to join our Sport & Digital Department to work across Live & Non-Live Sport Productions. 

The roles will be based in our Cardiff office where our Sport slate includes Formula 1, Cricket, Six Nations and British & Irish Lions.

The post would suit candidates who have a strong background in Live & Non-Live Sport Production.

Some wider experience across a more expansive slate is desirable, as is budget writing, managing large teams and delivering programmes to different broadcasters around the world.

Whisper is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, communities, and lived experiences. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and supported

Key Responsibilities:  

• Working with the HoPs to help manage the slates of our Live & Non-Live Sport Productions
• Planning and contracting staff, directly managing JPMs and PCs and mentoring junior members of the team. Actively seeking new junior and senior talent from diverse backgrounds.
• Effectively managing Client and Partner relationships both face to face and remotely working alongside the Senior Team & to attend client meetings and be a key point of contact for projects.
• Working alongside Legal & Business Affairs to ensure programmes and productions are compliant, including contracting staff, freelance and on-screen talent.
• Budgeting, including constructing budgets for new clients and broadcasters, revising existing Budgets, forecasting and overseeing cost managers.
• Helping to negotiate deals with new and returning clients and looking at new business opportunities.
• Working with Editorial, Technical and Business Development teams to respond to new business RFPs including budgeting and planning resources
• Working alongside the Managing/Creative Directors, Director/ Heads of Production, Executive Producers and Commercial Director to execute projects
• Overseeing risk assessments, business continuity plans, staffing and post production schedules.
• Maintain the vision and ethos of Whisper and promote a positive working environment where production talent can grow and gain opportunities in the business

Please note that responsibilities may be amended, added to, or removed to reflect the changing needs of the production or organisation.

Knowledge, skills & requirements:

• Experience across a range of output, especially a strong background in Sport and Digital.
• Confident working independently using own initiative while being prepared to take guidance on appropriate matters
• Excellent team player; organised and able to work quickly without losing attention to detail
• Ability to quickly access, prioritise and act with a creative and flexible outlook
• Integrity – able to look after the interests of the company while building effective working relationships with colleagues and outside contacts (including broadcasters and talent management) gaining their trust & respect
• Must be able to work effectively in a complex environment with diverse stakeholders including Head of Production, Production Executives, MDs and Senior Management
• Ability to effectively articulate complex issues in writing and verbally.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work as a cooperative member of a large team as well as interact with senior level executives and clients.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Location:

Cardiff, Wales

Working Days:

5 day week, x4 days in office and x1 day WFH.

These roles will require a degree of flexibility and weekend working and will be expected to work with the team to plan a schedule based on production requirement.

Lieu days will be given for any days worked over a five-day week.

Whisper offers the option of flexitime hours subject to production requirements.

Start:

ASAP on a 12-month FTC.

Salary:

Based upon experience

Application closing:

Friday 5^th June

How to apply:

Please send your CV and short covering note, telling us in your own way why you are the right candidate for this role here.

ABOUT WHISPER

UK-headquartered multi-media production company with production and commercial footholds in KSA and USA, delivering premium sports, unscripted and entertainment content globally.

Whisper is one of the most impactful, fast-growing production companies in the global media landscape: a creative powerhouse with the discipline of a high-growth tech firm.

We’ve scaled from a £1m start-up to an £80m+ global leader, delivering BAFTA-winning sports, unscripted entertainment and premium programming (including Formula One,

The Paralympics, prime-time entertainment and documentaries).

We are standardising scalable production models, integrating acquisitions and redefining how entertainment is delivered globally.

Role Summary

Whisper seeks an ambitious and creative Social Strategist to focus on delivering expert social strategy for a key client.

You will define and deliver a sporting organisation’s global strategy for social networks and channels.

You will own platform strategy, channel governance, content ops, audience growth and commercial integration across Europe and USA.

You will connect brand ambition, audience insight and platform mechanics.

You will report into the Whisper Managing Director of Sport and act as the senior social channels’ adviser across all markets.

In addition, you will provide advice on Whisper’s overall business social strategy across the whole of the group.

Key responsibilities

• Build a cohesive global approach with clear channel guides for TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Snapchat and new platforms
• Be instrumental in creating a new and bold brand strategy that has far-reaching impact across all social platforms
• Develop culture‑savvy storytelling that cuts across borders and time zones, shaping how people encounter the organisation’s content on social. Focus on USA, EUR, UK.
• Grow reach, loyalty and community health through integrated organic, creator and paid activity tailored to market and segment.
• Tie performance to commercial value and partner with Commercial and Distribution to translate results into sponsorships and partnerships.
• Embed social‑first, insight‑led practices that raise creative consistency, cultural relevance and measurable output.
• Develop an understanding of wider client business goals and distil them into actionable social strategies that drive audience growth with key groups.
• Work closely with analytics tools and insights teams to report back on strategy in action, iterating approaches in a fast-moving landscape across platforms

Success measures

• Significant year‑on‑year lifts in followers and – engaged audiences by platform and territory.
• Higher engagement rate, average watch time and completion.
• More referral traffic and conversions to owned and partner destinations.
• Clear, positive ROI at channel level for paid and creator investments.
• Playbooks delivered and adopted on time across regions and production teams.

Experience and skills

• Multipleyears running social/channel strategy and operations at scale across a number of markets.  Senior leadership background preferred.
• Editorial feel and creative judgement tuned to fan culture, with strong commercial sense.
• Hands‑on experience operating global handles and rolling out multi‑market programmes. USA consumer content understanding is highly desirable.
• Deep platform fluency in formats, signals, trends and tone and understanding of how to adapt them per channel.
• Advanced command of TikTok, Instagram, X, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Snapchat and emerging networks.
• Expert in social’s role in integrated campaigns and always‑on ecosystems, connecting audience insight to creative opportunities, delivering measurable growth.
• Contributed culturally sharp, social‑first thinking that won work or propelled priority initiatives.
• Experience in social reporting tools, turning insights into actionable strategic outcomes.
• Proven experience in social strategy, with an interest in or exposure to brand building, and a curiosity about how social thinking contributes to long-term business impact.
• Comfortable and effective in presenting strategic ideas to both clients and internal teams.

Reporting & Team

• Reports to: Whisper Managing Director, Sport
• Key partners: Chief Brand Officer, Head of Content, Senior Executive Producer, Social and Digital Leads

Working Arrangements & Rewards

• Base: Kew HQ; frequent travel to USA, Europe and other offices as required
• Work pattern: Office-based majority; flexible/hybrid arrangements subject to role needs.
• Compensation: Competitive, commensurate with experience; performance-related bonus and participation in company incentives where applicable.
• Benefits: Standard corporate benefits (health, pension, leave) aligned with senior marketing roles.

WORKING ARRANGEMENTS & REWARD

This is a 12 month fixed-term contract position starting ASAP

Location: Kew, London Work Pattern: 5 days per week (4 in office / 1 WFH)

Annual Leave: 25 days plus bank holidays

Compensation & Benefits

Base Salary: Dependent on experience

Bonus: Standard company bonus, to be discussed

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, pension and travel allowances

CANDIDATE APPROACH & APPLICATION

To apply, submit your CV and a short cover note (max one page) outlining:

• One social campaign you led that scaled internationally and the metrics/impact.
• Your approach to balancing global brand standards with local market activation.
• Experience working in Pan-European and US markets (if any).
• Closing date for applications – Friday 5^th June
• Application link here.

Join us. Own the Moment. Make it Happen.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Whisper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a seven-time Broadcast Best Places to Work winner. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, communities and lived experiences, and are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone is expected to champion Whisper’s values and feels valued and supported.