Studios Manager - Chicago; On-site

Kit is the email marketing platform experts choose to grow their audience, deepen their relationships, and build a business around the work they love. For coaches, You Tubers, authors, podcasters, and other creatives, there isn't a better marketing hub to rely on to grow audiences, automate email marketing, and sell digital products — all within one platform. More importantly, there isn't a team more committed to helping creators earn a living.

We're on a mission to help creators earn $1 billion using our creator marketing platform. We have always been 100% independent and 100% remote. We are proud to have built a product that our customers love, and we look for people who have enthusiasm and belief in our mission, vision, and values to join our team. We're also embracing AI thoughtfully — both in how we build and how we hire to ensure our team is adaptable, innovative, and ready for what's next.

Kit Studios is Kit's in-house creator studio space where creators can record high-quality podcasts and video content in a professional production environment, free for creators on our Creator and Creator Pro plans. We're rebuilding Kit Studios Chicago, and we need someone to be its heartbeat. This role is about building community, creating memorable creator experiences, and becoming a trusted face of Kit in the Chicago creator scene.

As a Kit Studios Manager, you'll manage the studio—greeting creators, running the space, and making sure every visit feels welcoming and professional. But the real work happens in the relationships you build: getting to know creators, understanding what they're working on, connecting them to Kit's tools and community, and identifying opportunities to pass along to our sales team.

This role is a great fit if you're a creator, excited about the creator economy, love making others feel seen and supported, and get excited about rolling up your sleeves to create content alongside creators in the studio. Ideally, you're already embedded in the Chicago creator economy yourself — a passive or part-time creator, or someone deeply connected to that community — so you already speak the language of the people you're bringing into the studio.

You’ll report to Haley Janicek
, Head of Creator Community at Kit.

You’ll work closely with Kit Studios team members in Boise and New York, Sales when you identify strong creator leads, and cross-functional partners in marketing, support, and operations. You’ll have regular access to Haley and the team, but you’ll also be trusted to build relationships and make decisions independently.

You sit at the mid-funnel:
Marketing owns top-of-funnel acquisition, Sales closes the deal, and you’re the connective tissue in between — responsible for surfacing and tracking qualified leads from studio visits and handing them off cleanly to sales.

• First Week: Meet Haley, the Kit Studios team, and key stakeholders across sales and marketing. Learn the booking system and day-of logistics, connect with other Kit Studios coordinators to understand what great creator experiences look like, and start connecting with the Chicago creator community. Get access to Customer.io and start learning how Kit Studios uses it to track regional utilization and reach Chicago-area customers.
  
  Start learning our internal systems and tools — Notion, Slack, Claude, , etc. Get oriented on the studio’s physical space — including day-to-day tidiness expectations and who to contact for building and vendor issues. Familiarize yourself with the studio equipment — Shure, ATEM, Rode, etc.

• First Month: Manage the Chicago studio independently, including creator greetings, bookings, basic technical troubleshooting, studio organization, and vendor…