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Blue Ant Media (TSX: BAMI) is an international streamer, production studio, advertising sales, and rights-management business. The company operates a diverse portfolio of free streaming and pay TV channels internationally, including Love Nature, Cottage Life, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth Canada, HauntTV, Homeful, and Love Pets, as well as the subscription streaming service MagellanTV. Its studio business produces and distributes a wide range of premium content across key genres for streaming and broadcast platforms worldwide. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with a presence in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Singapore, London, Washington, Sydney, Halifax, and Ottawa. blueantmedia.com⼁Instagram⼁LinkedIn

As the creative engine behind Blue Ant Media, Blue Ant Studios is an award-winning international production and rights-management business. The Studio creates and distributes a diverse range of programming spanning premium factual and high-impact documentaries, competition, and entertainment formats, lifestyle, kids, youth and family, comedy, drama, and animation for broadcasters and streaming platforms worldwide. Its acclaimed slate includes iconic, fan-favourite series such as Blown Away , Canada’s Drag Race , Mysteries From Above , Davey and Jonesie’s Locker , Kim’s Convenience , Highway Thru Hell , Top Chef Canada , Northwoods Survival , The Great Canadian Baking Show , and The Amazing Race Canada .

The Studio’s international distribution arm, Blue Ant Rights, represents over 9,000 hours of content from Blue Ant Studios and third-party producers, maximizing rights opportunities and connecting buyers with programming that resonates with global audiences. With offices in Toronto, London, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Ottawa, Halifax, Singapore, Sydney, and Vancouver, the studio is well-positioned in key markets worldwide.

Our employees are passionate experts in all of our business areas. They are fanatical about creating outstanding content and experiences, and about delivering them on new and evolving platforms. We actively seek new employees who embody our core values. We want them to think big, act with purpose, celebrate creativity, do the right thing, respect one another, and succeed together. We attract creative talents who are optimistic about the evolving future of content and who take pride in recognizing opportunities where others see challenges. At Blue Ant Media, we give them the flexibility to think like entrepreneurs, take ownership of their projects, take risks, and embrace innovation in a rapidly evolving media landscape. Our team members excel at collaborating with internal and external partners by building trusting, respectful working relationships.

Senior Director, Communications – Studios, Rights & Corporate

Blue Ant is seeking a strategic and seasoned communications leader to lead its global communications across Blue Ant Studios, Rights (including Consumer Products & Licensing), and Corporate. The Senior Director will lead integrated communications strategy and execution across the enterprise, strengthening Blue Ant Studios’ global industry profile, advancing executive visibility, and supporting business growth across production, distribution, and rights. The role serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and oversees internal communications staff and external agency partners across key markets.

This is a new role which will report to the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and is a hybrid position requiring in-office attendance at our head office in Toronto for a minimum of three (3) days per week. The anticipated salary range for this role is $120K-$150K per year, with final compensation determined by experience and qualifications.

Core Responsibilities & Duties

• Develop and lead integrated, results-driven global communications strategies across Blue Ant Studios and Rights (including Consumer Products & Licensing).
• Build and strengthen the global industry profiles of Blue Ant Studios and Rights across priority markets, including the U.S., U.K., and other key territories.
• Serve as a senior communications advisor to executive leadership across Studios and Rights, providing strategic counsel on both internal and external communications.
• Develop clear and differentiated corporate and studio messaging frameworks that support business growth, IP expansion, and long-term brand equity.
• Lead global media relations efforts, including corporate announcements, executive appointments, greenlights, renewals, international sales, co-productions, licensing deals, partnerships, awards campaigns and other strategic initiatives.
• Shape and oversee announcement strategies, including drafting and approving press materials, op-eds, executive statements and written interviews; manage release timing, media targeting and stakeholder coordination.
• Prepare and counsel senior executives and producers for media interviews, keynote addresses, panels, investor-facing engagements and industry appearances; oversee development of presentation materials and talking points.
• Identify and secure high-impact speaking opportunities, sponsorships and visibility at major global markets and industry events (e.g., MIPCOM, Realscreen, film festivals, and content markets), ensuring alignment with brand and business priorities.
• Lead issues and crisis communications planning and response across Studios and Rights, developing protocols and guiding executive decision-making during sensitive or high-profile situations.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with global trade, business and consumer press, as well as with broadcast, platform and production partners’ communications teams, talent representatives and publicists.
• Support the CMCO on Corporate Communications initiatives and media relations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Production, Distribution Sales, Business Affairs, Marketing/Creative, HR and international partners to ensure cohesive and aligned storytelling across the organization.

Qualifications and Experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate communications, media relations or public relations within media, entertainment, production, distribution or consumer IP businesses.
• Strong relationships with television trade, consumer, and business media.
• Experience serving as a trusted communications advisor to senior executives.
• Demonstrated success executing global communications strategies across multiple markets.
• Experience managing and developing high-performing teams and agency partners.
• Exceptional writing, storytelling and executive communications capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple high-profile initiatives in a fast-paced, global environment.
• High degree of professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment.

At Blue Ant Media, we believe promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility. We can all contribute. As a global media company, we recognize our platform and opportunity to influence change and promote a more inclusive world. We know what we create, distribute, and produce is better with a diverse workforce. In recruiting for our teams, we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds (who are eligible to work in Canada) and welcome the unique contributions each person brings.

While we may use digital tools to support the efficiency of our recruitment process, we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen, assess or select candidates. Applications are personally reviewed by a member of the Talent Acquisition team or one of the hiring leaders, ensuring a fair and human-centered experience or all applicants.

If you have most of the qualifications listed in our posting, but are not sure whether to proceed with your application, we still encourage you to apply. We thank all candidates for their interest in Blue Ant Media and we will reach out to those candidates that are under consideration. If you are contacted for an interview and require an accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please email our Human Resources team at HR@blueantmedia.com.