The Senior Programming Manager, US Hispanic and Kids, is in charge of leading all aspects of the teams that provide the editorial voice, programming quality, and overall success of Pluto TV, by engaging and retaining the Pluto TV audience with a major focus on US Hispanic and Kids categories.
This role reports to the Editorial Director, Programming.
This is a meaningful role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Leading and developing a team of 3 to 6 Programming Managers and Channel Editors. Facilitating work as a cohesive Editorial team, including standards and practices around programming quality, data interpretation, as well as interaction with other internal and external departments.
- Providing expertise in the US Hispanic and Kids categories of the entertainment world.
- Measuring and verifying the strength and integrity of programming for all assigned networks.
- Being the scheduling specialist to train and improve tools, efficiencies, parameters, storytelling, day parting for all programming.
- Developing successful programming schedules using resourcefulness and all available tools, data, and research.
- Reviewing and researching content to improve programming, while working across departments to understand how to achieve results.
- Creating and refining programming stunts, channels, and content for marketing and promotional use. Showing objective support for these ideas, using any and all tools available, especially data.
- Maintaining the content database of TV, film and digital catalogs.
Critical DevOps engineering role for the Pluto TV Team with responsibilities for system and server management, database management, configuration management, troubleshooting, preventative and corrective maintenance, performance monitoring and enhancement for our cloud / hosted large scale consumer video service.
This is a critical role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Design and perform system and server management, database management, configuration management, deep troubleshooting, preventative and corrective maintenance, performance monitoring and enhancement for cloud / hosted large scale consumer web systems
- Coordinate tests of new dev ops software and systems
- Plan, define, implement the requirements for off-hour systems maintenance work
- Oversee change management activities on the supported systems
- Develop operations procedures, such as backups and recovery processes
- Install and configure cloud systems
- Resolve technical and user problems
The Software Engineer, Roku will design and develop software using Brightscript and the Scene Graph framework for the Pluto app running on the Roku streaming platform.
This is a critical role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Roku software development using Brightscript and the Scene Graph framework.
- Understand the limitations of Roku platform and understand how to optimize the app to improve performance
- Work and collaborate in teams with developers, testers, product managers, etc.
- Work in an Agile, iterative development process
- Familiar with Jira, Confluence tools and communicate tasking estimation and progress regularly to a project manager, Scrum Master
- Be capable of committing to deliver timely results
We are currently seeking a dynamic Senior Manager, Preschool Production & Development to lead the production and creative direction of multiple series. This exciting role will work from greenlight to final delivery of each episode for the life cycle of the series! The position reports to the SVP, Preschool Production & Development.
Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To
- Review and provide creative direction for a number of series through all stages of production:
Premise-Final Scripts, Rough-Final Episode Cuts, Design (characters, background, prop, etc.), Music, Casting
- Ensure all creative content is delivered on time and in required specs.
- Provide final line of quality control by reviewing content as it delivers.
- Further develop and maintain strong relationships with creative teams and cross-functional partners throughout the lifecycle of each property.
- Communicate network plans and initiatives to show creators/executive producers
- Act as the liaison between productions and all lines of business by routing work for review and communicating feedback in a constructive and concise manner.
- Review all creative materials produced by cross-functional partners and ensure they are on brand and uphold the integrity of the property for series launch and throughout the life cycle of each property
- On-Air and Off-Air Promos (YouTube content, Social posts, etc.)
- Marketing & Franchise materials
- Consumer Products (Toys, Publishing, Soft Goods, etc.)
- Global Creative (Marketing Launch Kits, Character art, Core and Seasonal Style Guides)
- Act as point person in providing all necessary materials and resources for series launch and property management across all lines of business.
- Train and mentor team Sr. Coordinator by further building skill sets in providing creative feedback on all facets of production, handling asset requests and routing materials for review.
With aggressive goals that include the expansion of our US Operations and a commitment to Internationalization and Interplanetary entertainment, we are growing our Architecture Team to scale for the incredible road ahead. As a Client Platforms Architect, you will help the Architecture team and the Application development teams deliver their projects to production.
If you have a passion for building great products, enjoy the art of collaboration, and have the natural ability to drive decisions that lead to highly reliable complex systems, we want to talk to you. This role reports to the VP of Product Architecture.
- Collaborating with Pluto TV’s Application Development teams and back end services teams.
- Propose and influence server API designs
- Collaborate with Consumer Product Managers on ideation, documenting technical requirements for software development teams
- Using existing available tools and propose new tools to review application performances on different devices and pre-empt problems
- Designing algorithms to common processes so that the algorithms can be implemented across all our supported platforms
- Managing forward-looking projects that can span multiple engineering organizations
- Influencing architectural decisions based on product requirements, industry trends and emerging technologies
- Researching and proposing 3rd party client application frameworks and libraries.
- Developing and maintaining a healthy, working relationship with the cross-functional teams across Content services, Core services, Applications, Analytics and Video Playout services.
- Collaborate with the Application development teams to contribute with production-ready code on multiple platforms.
With aggressive goals that include the expansion of our US Operations and a commitment to Internationalization and Interplanetary entertainment, we are growing our Architecture Team to scale for the incredible road ahead. As the Content Services Architect you will help define and build the systems that power PlutoTV’s content ingestion, content management, and content publishing services.
If you have a passion for building great products, enjoy the art of collaboration, and have the natural ability to drive decisions that lead to highly reliable complex systems, we want to talk to you. This role reports to the VP of Product Architecture.
We are currently looking for a Director of Engineering Operations to oversee the IT department, including the NOC and Helpdesk team. The best possible person for this role has extensive experience in IT, operations, infrastructure, incident response, and risk management. We are looking for someone who can grow and lead a multifaceted distributed team. We'd like to see a demonstrated track record of developing positive relationships, collaborating across teams, developing their staff, coordinating multiple timelines, and handling complex, cross-discipline projects.
The right person will have experience crafting and implementing IT policies and systems that will meet key objectives, while supporting, planning, prioritizing and directing all IT related activities and functions with the goal of ensuring IT systems and people are compliant, and that function effectively within the limits of budget, time and company specifications. Further, we need an effective communicator who can work closely with both technical and non-technical internal partners.
Our preference is for candidates who are coming from entertainment companies like studios, post-production or visual effects. If you are willing to learn the industry domain and come from a similar field, we'd be happy to speak with you! This role reports to the VP of Engineering.
This is a meaningful role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Supervising the IT Team: hiring, training, mentorship and development of a globally distributed team of 10+ professionals, including our IT Manager, Network Engineers, Systems Engineers and Helpdesk.
- Executing complex projects and workloads, setting priorities, and executing long-term projects in the face of short-term fires.
- Cross-functional communication and collaboration with many internal teams including key business partners.
- Develop, deploy and monitorcompliance by establishing policy and procedures that will scale as we grow.
VP position for the handling of the business and legal affair matters for ViacomCBS Networks America handling Latin America, US Hispanic and Canada. This role will be responding to the needs of the company, including the following areas: channel and content distribution and licensing (linear and non-linear), adjacent and emerging business and multiplatforms, Viacom International Studio multiregional deals, Ad Sales supported business and partnerships, Corporate Governance; and scale growth company opportunities via M&A.
Duties will include the following:
- Structure, draft and negotiate:
- third party agreements related to multiplatform content distribution;
- business and legal matters for adjacent and emerging business;
- commercial agreements, including Viacom International Studio agreements, writer or talent related agreements, co-production agreements, license agreements, content acquisition agreements as well as other ancillary documentation;
- Oversee the review of agreements to provide analysis on available right and restrictions,
- Advise and act as a liaison with internal team by providing counsel; preparing rights, regulatory and overall legal analyses, including for new media/emerging platforms;
- Working and coordinating with BALA members; Counseling multiple client groups on a wide variety of legal matters;
- Advise and counsel client groups representing ViacomCBS Networks Americas platforms, including responsibility for, or key involvement in, developing and implementing policies, practices and strategic initiatives across teams.
- Manager role that leads all aspects of some associate and counsel roles in Miami and in the region.
At Pluto, we've built a leading ad supported streaming platform that blends the experience of linear television with groundbreaking digital technologies. The Engineering Manager of Services will be a key Full-stack Software Development Leader of a new and improved advanced server side software (performance intensive) for our video services on mobile, web and TV platforms.
At Pluto TV, we approach testing differently -- we are testing, and breaking, code constantly, but we help rebuild it better. As a Manager, Data Test Engineering, you partner with software developers to validate Business Intelligence / Analytics Data alongside product management. Your rigorous data validation activities ensures data quality to help drive business initiatives through accurate reporting. Troubleshooting is an understatement; it's more like trouble forecasting. The Manager of DTE will also act as a representative of the Software Test Engineering Department in scrum meetings and provide input on how to provide better data quality coverage for the applications supported.
- Work in an Agile Software Delivery methodology highly focused in creating data validation tests based on requirements.
- Provide a risk assessment on the defects identified and set the correct priority and severity.
- Provide a holistic assessment of data quality based upon the existing implementation vs new feature development.
- Develop testing and defect remediation process
At Pluto TV, we approach testing differently - we are testing, and breaking, code constantly, but we help rebuild it better. We are urgently hiring a Software Test Engineering Manager, focused on our Revenue Systems. You will be responsible for the quality of the ad insertion & advertising revenue systems that drive our business. This is a hands-on API testing & backend Java testing position, leading a team of 5. We partner with software developers to create and code tests concurrently with product development. You will build tools that help developers be more productive, write better code and test it themselves. Troubleshooting is an understatement; it's more like trouble forecasting. You will have the opportunity in a highly visible and critical role to influence decisions on new features to further enhance our revenue and how to provide better quality coverage for the applications supported.
- Work in an Agile Software Delivery methodology highly focused on creating functional, performance and end-to-end tests based on requirements
- Provide a risk assessment on the defects identified and set the correct priority and severity
- Provide holistic assessment of quality based upon the existing implementation vs new feature development
- Develop testing and defect remediation process
- Mentoring Software Test Engineers on the following competencies:
- Test Automation and STE Test Automation Standards
- Use of STE Unified Test Framework
- Application behavior and testing techniques
- Test coverage for application(s) supported
PlutoTV is looking for a Senior Architect to define and operate our large scale analytics processes. PlutoTV is a free ad-supported over-the-top television service with over 100 linear channels and 1000s of VOD movies and TV shows. As of August 2019 we had 18million unique viewers, a 50% growth in just 6 months. And we are growing ever faster as we add more premium branded content and we expand into new international markets. As we mature from a scrappy startup into an industry-leader we need to develop our solutions and processes so we can grow efficiently, reliably, and globally. You have developed database schemas and services to capture and process billions of data elements every day, 24/7/365. You know how to build highly-performing data pipelines and schemas.
- Collaborating with key stakeholders, executives, data engineers, and data analysts to perform data discovery and develop various objectives for data architecture and strategy
- Leading data modeling and data warehouse analysis, architecture, design, and development, which includes but is not limited to, setting up data ingestion pipelines, data models/star schemas, and ETL/ELT processes
- Developing data strategies that define how the data will be stored, consumed, integrated and managed by different data entities and IT systems, as well as any applications using or processing the data
- Collaborating with new and existing internal/external data vendors to understand data sourcing strategy, identify and collect required data, validate processes, and recommend data ingestion patterns and solutions
- Providing expertise on dimensional modeling and database design best practices
- Data wrangling of heterogenous data and explore and discover new insights
- Lead and support mappings of data sources, transformations, and data movement
- Implements procedures in place to validate data to ensure that data integrity and quality standards are met
- Provides mentorship to support team members
The Director Information Security’s primary job responsibility is to reduce risk to Pluto TV’s Information and Information Systems through the understanding and use of various data security technologies, applications, methodologies and industry standards. The Director Information Security will be a senior technology professional able to provide advanced expertise in Information Security Technologies and risk reduction strategies. In addition to daily hands-on operational responsibilities, this role will be responsible for the innovation and execution of people/process and technology improvements within Information Technology. This person will lead a small team that works closely with IT, engineering, and other business units.
- Applies in-depth knowledge of multiple InfoSec technologies (IPS/Firewalls/Anomaly Detection etc.), as appropriate.
- Accomplishes staff results by communicating responsibilities; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, mentoring, and creating accountability for employees; developing, coordinating, and ensuring compliant systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.
- Acts as a consultant to IT professionals and business partners on Information and Cyber Security risks and controls.
- Performs sophisticated analysis of Information Security related logs and log data to surface potential Information Security risk and concerns for resolution. Reports up on areas of opportunity and concern.
- Proactively makes risk reducing recommendations to appropriate business units regarding the development of new or existing services.
- Proactively looks for innovative approaches to maintaining and improving the corporate IS Framework.
- Maintains broad experience in InfoSec, and has the ability to identify and partner with technical specialists in different specialized fields across other groups.
- Participates in Incident Response training initiatives and when required ensures active participation in the incident response lifecycle governed by the Technical CERT Policy.
- Ensure all of the services and or applications supported are performing as intended this includes coordinating upgrades and or improvements.
- Frequently reviews any tickets in any service ticketing queues related to the group managed to ensure proper ticket closure.
- Perform vulnerability scans which include analysis and coordinating remediation.
- Conduct detection analysis and coordinate remediation for anomalies & possible intrusions
- Participate in litigation support associated with Electronic Stored Information.
- Participate as appropriate in any Information Technology, Information Security or Business unit project, noting any information security gaps or implications.
- Perform security risk evaluations and penetration assessments.
- Supports the company’s risk management program in a manner that fulfills the mission and strategic goals of the organization while following local, state and federal laws and accreditation standards.
- Proactively identifies creative risk solutions to decrease loss of data, increase the data protection mechanisms and controls throughout the enterprise.
- Develop polices, procedures and related guidelines.
The (Senior) Director of Strategy will plan and execute financial and business analyses to identify the most valuable business opportunities for Pluto TV, as well as measure, monitor and communicate key aspects of Pluto TV’s business to internal leadership and ViacomCBS business partners.
This role reports to the Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer.
This is a meaningful leadership position with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Assessing the business value of concurrently-proposed projects across the company, including a thorough analysis of potential trade-offs, to ensure optimal economic and strategic outcomes as our company roadmap evolves.
- Working cross-functionally (with product, business intelligence, engineering, finance, legal, etc) to deep-dive into important performance issues as they occur, to prioritize, identify, and analyze root causes, and following up to ensure execution of solutions and subsequent measurement of outcomes.
- Leading rigorous analysis of company metrics and associated dashboards in order to monitor business success and to develop insights into areas of improvement/opportunity.
- Assessing various growth opportunities, including hypothesis formation, performing financial and business analyses, and communication of findings.
Opportunity areas include:
- International market entry and growth.
- Expansion of existing domestic consumer markets and entry into addressable new markets.
- ‘Needle-moving’ product and feature enhancements.
- Vertical integration opportunities, including partnership/JV/acquisition options.
- Optimization of partnership economics (programmatic sales, distribution, content).
- Improvement of user economics and LTV (acquisition, retention, usage).
- Assessing the competitive market, including analysis of metrics, economics, content, distribution, product and other areas, in a fast-changing streaming environment.
- Business margin improvemen through identification of internal operational efficiencies, streamlining of vendor services, improving vendor economics, and optimizing employee/contractor resources for continued growth.
- Monitoring the health of our growing international business, including working with international teams to analyze markets and economics, and assess potential new market entry.
- Co-owning the creation of timely, clear, accurate and compelling presentations to communicate business updates at corporate ViacomCBS meetings, including board meetings, Senior Leadership Team meetings, earnings calls, etc.
We are seeking a Data Scientist who will support our customer, product, sales, leadership and marketing teams with insights gained from analyzing streaming media data. The ideal candidate is adept at using big data to answer questions for product and process optimization, and using models to test the effectiveness of different courses of action. The right person for this job will have used a plethora of data mining/data analysis methods and tools, building and implementing models, using/crafting algorithms and creating/running simulations in a professional environment. They must have a validated ability to deliver business results with their data-based insights. They must be comfortable working with a wide range of partners and functional teams. The right candidate will have a passion for discovering solutions hidden in data and working with partners to improve business outcomes.
This is a critical role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Collaborate with the Business Intelligence team to find opportunities which can use company data to drive business solutions
- Mine and analyze data from databases and data lake sources to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies
- Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets
- Assess the efficiency and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques
- Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, generate revenue, improve ad targeting and other business outcomes
- Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes
- Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance
Paramount Animation Studios - Technical Director
The Technology Department of Paramount Animation provides critical support in creating unique high-quality feature films. Technology is the key component of film making that allows artists to fulfill their artistic goals and enables film makers to create unforgettable film experiences.
Position Summary:
We are actively seeking an experienced Technical Director (TD) to provide daily support to artists, show management, and department heads – including, story, editorial, art department, 3D story and layout. He/she will also play a key role to the continuing development of our animation pipeline, tool set, and workflow.
Responsibilities:
- Communicate with artists to identify production facing problems.
- Provide immediate support to layout artists in troubleshooting shots and publishing data to editorial.
- Gather requirements and input from artists and technology stakeholders to engineer robust and thoughtful software solutions.
- Work closely with Vendors, who are key contributors in making our high-quality films.
- Assist other TDs, Layout and VFX Supervisors, and Pipeline developers to extend and enhance the production pipeline.
- Construct validation tests to ensure software quality.
- Apply analytics to monitor the operations of the studio and streamline operations.
- Assist in training and mentoring of interns and contractors.
Basic Qualifications:
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, Computer Graphics, or related field.
- Strong Python programming skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Additional Qualifications:
- Production experience in Computer Animation, Visual Effects, or Game Industry
- Proficiency in C++, MEL, Interface Design, Qt, Jira, Git, and Javascript.
- Familiarity with animation tools, such as Maya, FLIX, and Storybook Pro.
- Ability to establish priorities, work independently or within a group, and work with minimal supervision.
- Interest in learning and applying machine learning tools.
About Paramount Animation Studios:
Paramount Animation Studios is the animation division and label of Paramount Pictures. Comprised of world-class talent, the studio creates high-quality, CG animated feature films. Its current slate of films include The SpongeBob Movie: It's a Wonderful Sponge, Rumble, and Tiger's Apprentice.
About Paramount Pictures Corporation:
Paramount Pictures is a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, with robust and multi-faceted divisions across all areas including digital, home entertainment, network and cable television distribution, studio operations, consumer products and recreation. A unit of the leading global entertainment content company, Viacom, Paramount is part of a family of prominent and respected brands including MTV Networks and BET Networks.
As a Data Engineer, you have a solid understanding of both the business and the technical aspects of BI in relation to digital media business. You will drive the completion of projects within the established scope, while simultaneously planning for and leading unknown future BI requirements in a dynamic environment.
- Design, model and develop data sets to support reporting and analytics in a cloud environment.
- ETL development: cover all aspects of programming assignments and assist with systems design.
- Develop and maintain a technical metadata framework and repository of data events and ETL operations.
- Lead and administer Analytics tools and tag management systems.
- Help plan and maintain the technical infrastructure, its configuration, performance, and storage requirements, with consideration of tiered data and data archiving.
- Generate ad-hoc queries and reports based on business requirements.
- Provide ongoing evaluations of technology solutions and capabilities to ensure alignment with business objectives, identify areas of risk, while monitoring the current environment and potential improvement areas.
- Work with business partners to gather, analyze, and translate requirements in BI reporting area – either recommending an existing solution, developing a solution, or synthesizing delivery requirements to engineering teams for development.
- Actively question and challenge customers to understand their requirements and reach the best solutions, near and long term.
- Understand and adhere to development and documentation standards, database design and storage.
- Successfully execute process improvements impacting own work and work of others.
- On-call application support is required.
Do you have previous television production finance experience? We need you! We are looking for an individual who will be responsible for the day to day over-sight of Production Finance activities as they relate to exciting television projects produced at Paramount Television Studios.
- Supervise free-lance production accountants assigned to TV projects
- Thorough understanding of the Television budgeting process
- Preparation of TV budgets including Series, MOW, Mini Series
- Manage co-productions
- Track co-financing
- Cash forecasting
- Enforce policy and procedures
- Weekly cost reports
- Daily hot costs
- Understand all guild payrolls
- Liaise with outside third-party payroll services
- Provide co-fi partners with required reporting and forecasts
- Participate in preparation of annual production spend forecast
- Detailed knowledge and understand of both domestic and international TV tax credits and incentives
- Prepare and track TV incentive applications
- Liaise with 3rd party auditors to facilitate tax credit filings
- Liaise with Network and guild auditors for review of wrapped TV projects
- Attend and participate in weekly staff production meetings
- Contribute to preparation of weekly production status report for submission to senior management
Do you have experience at a motion picture or tv studio or union? Are you strong within legal affairs and contracts? If so, our Executive Director role could be perfect for you! This position is responsible for providing casting administration support to Paramount Pictures by timely and efficiently preparing and negotiating performer contracts, handling credit issues, coordinating payroll and union/guild compliance, preparing residual cast lists, negotiating and preparing casting director contracts, and advising various departments on matters relating to the employment of performers.
Responsibilities to include, but not limited to:
- Generate and process contracts for all non-Schedule F performers for theatrical and other feature-length live action and animated motion pictures, including deal negotiation with outside agents and attorneys
- Ensure compliance with (and advise internal partners regarding) the policies, procedures and obligations of SAG/AFTRA and other performer guilds
- Approve performer deal memos for guild compliance
- Oversee talent contract administration and payroll, due diligence and SAG/AFTRA compliance for all performers
- Eliminate guild infractions, fines, sanctions and liquidated damages
- Approve Station 12 clearance forms
- Process confirmations as required by the guilds
- Submit casting data reports to SAG/AFTRA
- Track timesheets/exhibit Gs for accuracy and SAG/AFTRA compliance
- Advise internal partners on SAG/AFTRA policies and procedures and performer work rules (e.g., overtime/travel including per diems & allowances/forced calls/extended work weeks/drop-pick up rules/scheduling/holidays/rehearsal/housing)
- Advise regarding test options, stunt agreements, and resolution of contract and work rule disputes and claims
- Provide information to internal residuals' staff that generate residual reports
- Coordinate with casting, business affairs, and finance to hire casting directors, prepare their agreements, oversee their employment, and process their payments and overages, all in accordance with local guild and employment requirements.
- Track and lead Paramount's theatrical and other feature-length acting options (including tracking dates, notifying executives of outside engagements, writing letters to agents, and summarizing active acting options in a monthly memo)
- Work with legal to court approve minor contracts and with labor to establish policies regarding minors shooting motion pictures outside of the US
- Work with outside immigration counsel to obtain O-1 visas for foreign actors working in the US, and with legal to acquire O-1s for non-actors
- Maintain Paramount’s physical production manual as it relates to the hiring and paying of minors and actors
- Successfully train staff on office systems and databases, policies and procedures, and help further develop databases and digital filing system(s) for performer contracts
We are currently looking for a Senior Manager of Product - Demand Enablement, who will work across both our direct and indirect revenue channels to increase the number and quality of advertisers buying Pluto TV ad inventory. The result of this work will be to gain a larger share of ad spend from current advertisers and to convince new advertisers of the benefits of our ad platform.
The Senior Manager will have product responsibilities for 3rd-party measurement capabilities, integration with necessary buy-side tools, programmatic integrations, and ad product formats.
This role requires a deep understanding of the advertising industry, maturity working with third parties, and proven experience defining and executing product strategy. In addition, this person will build and lead a team of junior and mid-level product managers.
This role reports to the VP of Product, Revenue.
This is a meaningful role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Cross-Functional Team Relationship: Developing and maintaining healthy, productive, working relationships across the core Revenue Product, Program, and Engineering teams; non-Revenue teams (Native Apps, WebTech, Data Engineering); and Ad Operations, Revenue Partnerships, Sales, and Monetization teams.
- Product Requirements: Finalizing product initiatives with clear definition of goals, risks, dependencies, and assumptions, overall approach, and requirements with acceptance criteria.
- Operational QA/Troubleshooting: Triaging ad-related issues with the appropriate resources including independent QA/troubleshooting when possible, and help communicate status/results to partners.
- Product Planning: Defining the product goals, strategies, and roadmap plans for Demand Enablement and ensuring prioritization on the all-up Revenue Product Roadmap.
- Organizational Structure and Hiring: Building and executing an appropriate team staffing and hiring plan that includes roles and responsibilities to achieve team goals.
- Outreach and relationships with key 3rd-party partners: Developing an ongoing relationship with representatives from various 3rd-party partners (eg. FreeWheel, SpotX, Telaria, Nielsen, comScore, and other viewability vendors) to drive Pluto TV’s business and product goals.
- Demand Enablement Subject Matter Expert (SME): Engaging with internal partners and evangelizing the team’s role, accountabilities and plan. Becoming familiar with industry initiatives related to the Demand Enablement area (eg. IAB standards, etc) and propose how Pluto TV should be engaging with the industry on areas that matter most.
Our team is seeking a Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst Lead, who will support business partners with advanced data reporting insights and to serve as a team lead within the analytic department. The Sr. BI Analyst Lead will work closely with Ad Sales, Marketing and Product teams, partnering with these business units to gain in-depth understanding of the customer, content, product and guide business strategy, processes, and services.
The best candidates for this role will exhibit strong communications skills, problem-solving abilities, and experience working collaboratively with different teams. This role further requires experience in leadership or mentorship of junior employees, and calls for a deep technical understanding of BI. Our goal is to find a candidate who can manage internal clients, make recommendations, and deliver insights which are meaningful.
The Sr. Business Analyst Lead responsibilities include the following key strategic business analysis services:
- Business Performance Reporting and Data Visualization: Be the primary partner for multi-functional internal partners to understand performance of the platform. When a metric is leading or lagging, dig in to drive meaningful insights that help the business performance improve.
- Deep-Dive Analysis: Analyze data to identify patterns, uncover opportunities, and build common understanding of how people are interacting with the platform and content.
- Forecasting, and Opportunity Sizing: Both to set goals and help evaluate potential opportunities. This will help business partners evaluate trade-offs in different approaches and create targets for driving business performance.
- Partnership: Partner closely with business teams to identify and unlock opportunities, and with other analysts teams to improve platform capabilities around data modeling, testing platforms, data visualization, and data architecture.
We are currently looking for an IT Manager to supervisor our Helpdesk and to help us grow our IT org. The best possible person for this role has extensive experience in IT, operations, and infrastructure technologies. We are looking for someone who can multitask, splitting their time between troubleshooting issues, completing projects and implementations, acting as our GSuite Admin and shaping policy that allows us to scale.
. We'd like to see a demonstrated track record of developing positive relationships, collaborating across teams, developing their staff, coordinating multiple timelines, and handling complex, cross-discipline projects.
Our preference is for candidates who are coming from entertainment companies like studios, post-production or visual effects. If you are willing to learn the industry domain and come from a similar field, we'd be happy to speak with you! This role reports to the VP of Engineering.
This is a meaningful role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Supervising the IT Team: hiring, training, mentorship and development of our Helpdesk team.
- Maintaining healthy systems & fixing issues, acting as an escalation point for the Helpdesk team, and stepping in to clear tickets personally to ensure speedy resolution
- Executing complex projects and workloads, setting priorities, and executing long-term projects in the face of short-term fires.
- Cross-functional communication and collaboration with internal clients and partners.
Develop, deploy and monitorsecurity by aiding to establish policy and procedures that will scale as we grow.
With daring goals that include the expansion of our US Operations and a commitment to Internationalization, we are growing our Content Systems and Publishing Product Team to scale for the incredible road ahead. As a Product Manager - Content Acquisition, you will directly contribute to the analysis, strategy, execution, and continued innovation of the products that support our Content Acquisition, Ingestion and Management Supply Chain.
This person will foster an industry-leading approach, ensuring that our content management products are developed and maintained to the highest possible level of quality. We are looking for passion for building great products, enjoyment of the art of collaboration, and the ability to generate roadmaps that lead to highly usable software.
This role reports to the Director of Product, Content Systems.
This is a meaningful role centered around the Content Management digital supply chain with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Partner with Business, Product and Engineering, contributing to the development of products supporting our elite Media Asset Management system and content management pipeline.
- Collaborate with partners and business owners to assemble and document product requirements, produce wireframes, and present to Engineering, Quality Assurance and Program Management teams for execution.
- Enable systems which scale, and accelerate our content supply chain while championing continuous evaluation and improvement to achieve the goal of greater efficiency and increased visibility of Pluto TV’s Content.
- Decompose partner requirements into product artifacts such as user stories and wireframes, collaborate with engineering and product teams to develop solutions.
- Work with Business Intelligence to compile and interpret data to drive decisions.
The Vice President, Growth Strategy will develop and lead the marketing strategy around Nickelodeon’s emerging businesses such as OTT, Gaming, and Experiences. Leading a lean team of business and growth strategists they will ensure that all Nickelodeon content is supported by strategic branding, creating best in class partnerships and maximizing Nickelodeon’s exposure and growth KPIs. Taking a hand-in-hand approach, they will closely partner with the Strategy and Business Development group in support of the ViacomCBS Kids & Family Entertainment Group’s objectives, as well as the Marketing team at large, and across other divisions of ViacomCBS.
Responsibilities
- Act as the partner to the ViacomCBS Kids & Family Strategy and Business Development team on marketing agreements and relationships related to emerging businesses including, but not limited to audio, voice skills/activations, sales, music, games, and Awesomeness.
- Develop Nickelodeon’s Digital Marketing platform strategy working closely with the CBSi team on the evolution of our owned Apps, Web, and Digital Platforms.
- Manage branding and marketing strategy for all Nick programming and hubs on ViacomCBS’s Owned and Operated OTT service(s).
- Collaborate across the Nick Marketing organization (Current Series, Brand & Strategy, Creative, Social, etc) to ensure series positioning and representation are accurate, aligned with current strategy and on brand.
- Oversee, develop and manage all Experience and Partnership marketing.
- Identify and manage cross functional opportunities across ViacomCBS
- Manage the marketing relationship and identify synergistic promotional opportunities with our digital partners, e.g. Netflix, Hulu, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google.
- Lead with an experiment-orientation strategy across all marketing efforts using data to inform strategic decisions and tactics.
- Collaborate with Nick’s internal research and insights team, VP, Marketing Ops, and counterparts across the ViacomCBS portfolio around the emerging business landscape and opportunities.
- Be a strong contributor on Nick’s Senior Marketing team.
Noggin is a leading interactive learning service for families with young children. We help young kids develop skills, knowledge and passions through play with the characters they love. We also help parents help their kids thrive. A multi-platform direct-to-consumer offering, Noggin reaches families in the domestic market through standalone mobile apps, connected TV apps, and add-on channels. We are building a team of highly-motivated individuals who are eager to work in a start-up-like environment within a large media company. We need innovators and self-starters who are passionate about playful learning and comfortable working in a fast-paced, creative-led organization.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement Noggin’s marketing strategy to drive customer acquisition and retention
- Develop strategy to meet ambitious growth objectives, taking into consideration market segmentation, penetration and competitive positioning
- Manage paid and organic marketing efforts across digital, linear, and social to meet customer acquisition goals
- Implement value-enhancing strategies to improve customer retention
- Build Noggin’s brand
- In collaboration with Noggin leadership and Nickelodeon CMO, define Noggin’s brand positioning and creative voice
- Ensure Noggin’s brand is realized across marketing, product, and customer support efforts
- Increase Noggin brand awareness and affinity
- Manage customer lifecycle
- Manage the web payment funnel
- Identify and prioritize cross-functional efforts to increase lifetime value and reduce churn
- Oversee payment operations and ensure customer support is responsive and supported
- Own the data
- Lead Noggin’s efforts to analyze data and draw insights across the customer experience
- Build analytics capability, on the Noggin team and in the product
- Partner with other in-house analytics teams to gain the best possible insights for decision-making
- Define product requirements to support marketing efforts
- Define product marketing roadmap to ensure that Noggin’s product capabilities support growth goals and customer feedback
- Inform A/B testing strategy with tests to optimize customer acquisition and retention efforts
- Manage distribution partnerships
- Support EVP in managing relationships with Noggin’s distribution partners; manage Noggin’s day-to-day interactions with distribution partners as well as internal supporting teams
- Be a leader on Noggin’s senior team
- Represent Noggin internally and foster collaborative, accountable relationships
- Identify cross-functional issues and opportunities and drive them to efficient and effective resolution
- Lead with an experiment-orientation across all marketing efforts, including defining and implementing A/B testing and using data to inform strategic decisions and tactics
The Director, Facilities Management is responsible for the day-to-day operational management, strategic planning and supervision of facility Management functions and staff. Coordinates, plans, implements and evaluates facilities activities for the ViacomCBS Nashville location. This includes but is not limited to space management, budget planning, upkeep of space, construction projects and supervising building services, employee events and sustainability programs. Work performed independently with general supervision by the SVP Real Estate & Facilities.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate space planning, employee relocations, update and maintain all records for designated ViacomCBS groups located in Nashville. Partial responsibilities include meeting with designated group point people. Space assignment, office/workstation layouts, miscellaneous renovation if required, relocation coordination and all post move requirements.
- Maintain electronic, paper documentation and statistics on completed moves; provide periodic reports, as required for senior management.
- Maintain all space planning information in the Planon database. Update the database weekly based on information gathered from move sheets, promotional announcements, Human Resources new hire and termination correspondence. Frequently perform physical verification of floor occupants.
- Direct liaison to various ViacomCBS groups to assist, manage space, coordinate moves and update occupancy plans.
- Develop and maintain professional relationships with point people, ViacomCBS support groups, IS&T, HR and various vendors.
- Collaborate with all departments as an integral means of achieving departmental goal of providing a high level of customer service.
- Return all phone calls and e-mails within a 24-hour period, as per departmental policy.
- It will be necessary to periodically work weekends and/or evenings as required to ensure the successful completion of a specific move or project.
As the Manager, Investor Relations, you are an integral member of a collaborative and fast paced team. The Manager works with the EVP and VP of Investor Relations to prepare senior leaders for investor presentations, conferences, earnings calls, and help develop key messaging to the investor community. You will lead report preparation and perform financial analysis regarding the company and industry competitors.
The ideal partner is a highly-motivated, hardworking and results oriented self-starter who is attentive to deadlines and capable of producing high quality work under occasional time constraints.
Responsibilities Include:
- Utilize strong written and research skills to prepare quarterly earnings materials, research and develop pertinent Q&A topics for earnings call scripts, investor presentations and board meetings.
- Perform ad hoc research projects and valuation analysis related to ViacomCBS and its peers using research reports, company filings and external database sources.
- Maintain and monitor a monthly analysis of peer consensus estimates, peer ratings, target prices and sell-side analysts’ estimates for ViacomCBS and key peer companies.
- Maintain a database of analyst quarterly estimates and annual earnings for the Company.
- Act as a liaison between internal and external customers of the investor relations department.
- Provide analyst estimates to the Financial Planning department and obtain financial information from them regarding divisional results and targets.
- Provide equity research for Corporate Communications, Corporate Development, Financial Planning, and other departments.
- Coordinate conference calls associated with the quarterly earnings release, investor conferences and other publicly released information regarding the company.
**Deadline to Apply: Friday, July 3rd, 2020**
Are you intrigued by the ever-evolving business side of the entertainment industry? Are you a go-to legal expert by day and a reality TV binger by night? If these questions spark your interest – read on!
We are seeking recent law school graduates with 2-3 years of work experience to join its Business and Legal Affairs (BALA) team in an exciting rotational role with direct exposure to some of the top entertainment lawyers in the industry! The contracts you negotiate and deals you close will influence the pulse of media and popular culture. If playing a vital role working on important legal matters in an upbeat and vibrant industry sounds appealing, then the ViacomCBS BALA Fellowship could be the perfect next step for your career.
Responsibilities:
- Handle a heavy volume of development and production responsibilities (e.g. drafting agreements) across various platforms, relating to both network and studio businesses and the production of original programming both “in-house” and through third party production companies.
- Support branded joint promotions with advertisers and sponsors, integrated marketing productions, interstitial programming, live events and on-air series promotional announcements.
- Partner day-to-day with our in-house lawyers to provide practical, strategic advice and legal counsel to business clients regarding risk management and legal implications of proposed business opportunities and actions.
- Cultivate relationships and maintain channels of communication with key internal BALA partners in technical areas including rights and clearances, music strategy, risk management, trademarks, unions and guilds, and litigation.
Program Benefits:
- Full time staff position for two years, which includes competitive annual salary and benefits.
- Two 12-month rotations to aid in a full understanding of entertainment law.
- Professional development opportunities, formal mentorship, training sessions, and networking across the organization.
Overview and Responsibilities
The Manager of Production Clearances will work closely with the Senior Vice President and Senior Director to formulate licensing strategy and negotiate favorable rates for the use of third party elements across Comedy Central, Paramount Network, TV Land, and Awesomeness long form and short form content. Working closely with Production (in-house and/or third party), Development, Brand Creative (Marketing), Digital, Social, Business Affairs and IP Litigation this position works at the heart of production. This position may partner to oversee project based employees and/or interns.
Responsibilities
- Manage multiple priorities at a time related to licensing for series from pre-production to post; collaborate with client partners at all stages of creative and production process; be proactive in identifying rights issues/necessary permission, and propose alternative cost-savings and process improvement solutions during content production and execution.
- Execute copyright research and facilitate clearance requests; Negotiate, review and draft licenses and permissions with copyright owners of film, TV, photography, stock and viral footage, games, books, magazines, fonts, etc.
- Accurately draft and analyze complex license agreements; negotiate with licensors via email, phone, and in-person.
- Make effective presentations on rights and licensing related topics to client groups and employees.
- Maintain tracking reports for all assigned programs/projects and ensure that licenses are executed and paid in a timely manner. Regularly report clearance costs to Production and Production Management via tracking reports.
- Attend greenlight and music meetings with Production and Development teams.
- Review all deliverables in connection to Third Party productions, including, but not limited to Guest and Location Releases and all Licenses for Third Party content.
To be successful in the role, you will have
- Expertise in licensing third party IP (footage, photos, fonts, graphics, etc) for use in linear and digital programming, advertising, promotions, and brand integrations.
- Established relationships within the licensing community with Films Studios, Photos Houses, etc.
- Passion and comprehensive understanding of the media industry, trends and issues; ability to find opportunities for new partnerships and cross-promotional engagements.
- An understanding of the production process and practical needs of Media Production.
The Technology Department of Paramount Animation provides critical support in creating imaginative, animated feature films. Our technology and the support of that technology are the key components of film making that allow our artists to fulfill their artistic goals and enables film makers to create unforgettable film experiences.
Position Summary:
The Client IT Analyst is responsible for day-to-day helpdesk support for the animation production crew and personnel within a fast-paced heterogeneous macOS/Linux/Windows environment. The candidate will be responsible for setup, installation, and troubleshooting of all desktop related hardware and software. Duties entail coordination with senior support staff, management, as well as other Paramount IT and Viacom groups involved in the support process.
Responsibilities:
Provide hands-on support of production workstations and laptops, both Apple, Linux and Windows, mobile devices, remote connectivity tools, computer related accessories/peripherals and MFP devices.
Be part of a team that provides a personal and high level of support across multiple animation productions.
Work independently with the ability to manage your time within a busy production driven environment.
Work with production to clarify business needs and to recommend technology/solutions to meet those needs, according to IT standards.
Be comfortable setting up and troubleshooting cross-site video conference calls in time sensitive high pressure situations.
Work closely with Viacom and Paramount IT to ensure the overall satisfaction of the client – this includes assisting with upgrades/rollouts of new operating systems and software.
Work well in a diverse team environment — this includes sharing information, knowledge, cross training, providing backup support in the event of absences and uneven workload, and demonstrating a positive attitude.
Be informed about the state of computer technology by reading trade journals, product reviews and other relevant publications, and by communicating with individuals with similar responsibilities in other organizations.
Work cooperatively with technical directors and developers to identify and resolve production facing problems in a timely and efficient manner. Responsible for general office productivity related to computer products and services for animation productions.
Participate in periodic off-hours downtime performing upgrades, installations, etc.
Be able to documents both policies and procedures for technology team and production staff.
Be able to be on-call as needed during peak production times.
Basic Qualifications:
Related bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience required.
Minimum 2-3 years experience in a related IT position.
Minimum of 2 years or more of experience in the support of client platform technologies, that include Windows and macOS, Microsoft Office with Outlook, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Teams, and Remote Access Systems.
Experience supporting Animation, Visual Effects, or Game Industry is a plus.
Experience supporting Maya, Photoshop, Flix, and Storyboard Pro desirable.
Strong background in customer service and/or customer facing support.
Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
Ability to gather client requirements and determine appropriate technical solutions.
Excellent oral and written communication skills are necessary to effectively communicate with all production and company personnel. Ability to understand and maintain content security best practices or develop compensating controls.
About Paramount Animation Studios:
Paramount Animation Studios is the animation division and label of Paramount Pictures. Comprised of world-class talent, the studio creates high- quality, CG animated feature films. Its current slate of films include The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, Rumble, and Tiger's Apprentice.
About Paramount Pictures Corporation:
Paramount Pictures is a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, with robust and multi-faceted divisions across all areas including digital, home entertainment, network and cable television distribution, studio operations, consumer products and recreation. A unit of the leading global entertainment content company, Viacom, Paramount is part of a family of prominent and respected brands including MTV Networks and BET
**Deadline to Apply: Friday, July 3rd, 2020**
Are you intrigued by the ever-evolving business side of the entertainment industry? Are you a go-to legal expert by day and a reality TV binger by night? If these questions spark your interest – read on!
We are seeking recent law school graduates with 2-3 years of work experience to join its Business and Legal Affairs (BALA) team in an exciting rotational role with direct exposure to some of the top entertainment lawyers in the industry! The contracts you negotiate and deals you close will influence the pulse of media and popular culture. If playing a vital role working on important legal matters in an upbeat and vibrant industry sounds appealing, then the ViacomCBS BALA Fellowship could be the perfect next step for your career.
Responsibilities:
- Handle a heavy volume of development and production responsibilities (e.g. drafting agreements) across various platforms, relating to both network and studio businesses and the production of original programming both “in-house” and through third party production companies.
- Support branded joint promotions with advertisers and sponsors, integrated marketing productions, interstitial programming, live events and on-air series promotional announcements.
- Partner day-to-day with our in-house lawyers to provide practical, strategic advice and legal counsel to business clients regarding risk management and legal implications of proposed business opportunities and actions.
- Cultivate relationships and maintain channels of communication with key internal BALA partners in technical areas including rights and clearances, music strategy, risk management, trademarks, unions and guilds, and litigation.
Additional Responsibilities May Include:
• Advise production clients on a wide range of issues in the broadcast and digital realms, including copyright, trademarks, defamation, privacy, and right of publicity
• Review scripts, episodes, and other related materials to identify legal issues
• Investigate and respond to production-related claims
Program Benefits:
- Full time staff position for two years, which includes competitive annual salary and benefits.
- Two 12-month rotations to aid in a full understanding of entertainment law.
- Professional development opportunities, formal mentorship, training sessions, and networking across the organization.
Showtime Networks Inc. (SNI) is seeking a Director of Strategy & Analysis to serve as a consultative resource to the SNI leadership team and managers across the organization. The Director will conduct ongoing exploration of SNI’s operating environment and examine issues from a strategic, competitive and financial perspective. The Director position is part of a Finance FP&A team but will collaborate closely on a day-to-day basis with Research, Sales, Marketing, Business Product Development & Management, Corporate Communications, among other departments. Do you see yourself as a solution provider to a dynamic “client base,” able to adapt to industry developments and help facilitate shifts in the organization? Then this is the career for you!
Responsibilities:
- Support the SNI senior management team in anticipating and addressing critical business questions
- Design, execute and interpret analyses to generate business insights to inform decision making
- For example, multichannel video subscriber overviews, competitive benchmarking (domestic and international), assessment and subscriber growth strategies of new distribution platforms, emerging technologies and macroeconomic and other marketplace trends impacting SNI’s growth
- Develop and present timely, periodic reports using internal and third-party data (e.g., SNL Kagan, equity research, trade publications and other sources) to highlight trends and implications for SNI and its distributors, competitors and media peers
- Curate and provide executive summaries of relevant equity and industry research for senior management as decided by industry news
- Contribute to and help coordinate strategic presentations for both ViacomCBS and SNI senior management, including annual midyear reviews, budget and business overviews, and custom presentations as needed for SNI’s CEO and CFO
- Participate in key account team meetings, conference calls and affiliate meetings when possible to cultivate relationships and affirm frontline priorities
Nickelodeon, now in its 40th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The brand includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, location-based experiences, publishing and feature films. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB).
Noggin is a leading interactive learning service for families with preschoolers. We help young kids develop skills, knowledge and passions through play with the characters they love. We also help parents help their kids thrive. A multi-platform direct-to-consumer offering, Noggin reaches families in the domestic market through standalone mobile apps, connected TV apps, and add-on channels. We are forming a team of highly motivated individuals who are eager to work in a start-up-like environment within a large media company. We need innovators and self-starters who are passionate about playful learning and comfortable working in a fast-paced, creative-led organization.
Are you eager to help build the future of Noggin?
The Senior Product Manager role:
You will own the Noggin standalone app across multiple digital platforms, including the Apple, Android and Roku ecosystems. You will shepherd business and user needs through the many stages of product development, including ideation, research, planning, and execution.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of a learning and media-focused product strategy and vision supported by research, data and business goals.
- Coordinate the entire lifecycle of features, from definition to prioritization to technical implementation, in collaboration with cross-functional partners, designers, developers and QA.
- Break down complex problems into manageable steps by authoring and prioritizing epics and user stories.
- Be a leader on a cross-functional scrum team—foster a creative, team oriented and disciplined culture to produce the best results possible.
- Analyze product use and performance to continually focus on subscription growth and engagement.
- Communicate product roadmap and requirements across teams and departments clearly and effectively.
- Use data in making product decisions and setting priorities; encourage metrics-based optimizations—striking the right balance between fixing bugs and launching new features.
The Manager of Brand Marketing will help strategize and drive the development and execution of 360-degree paid/organic consumer and trade marketing campaigns. They will also take a leading role in proactive brand management across Pluto aligning partners with our brand strategy and positioning.
Reporting to the Vice President, Brand Marketing, this role will run entire media campaigns from beginning to end and is responsible for campaign execution across all media channels including: TV, digital, OOH, radio, experiential, social and print.
This is a meaningful role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:
- Strategizing and executing media plans that are on-strategy, timely, and on-budget while ensuring accurate trafficking, delivery, and attribution.
- Pitching and executing programs that proactively meet the needs of internal partners and grow Pluto’s brand awareness in the marketplace.
- Solving brand identity challenges by working closely with our design team to develop standards that serve Pluto’s positioning.
- Developing, owning and communicating accurate project timelines, the master project calendar, workback schedules, budgets and other documentation/specs as needed for large scale brand campaigns and rollouts (i.e. strategic media briefs, campaign recap decks, one-sheets, pitch decks etc.).
- Serving as department liaison with internal and external teams including Creative, Distribution, Content/Programming, Communications, Business Intelligence and Research.
- Monitoring live campaigns and make real-time adjustments to optimize toward campaign objectives.
- Monitoring market trends, research consumer markets, and competitor activity,
The CSR is responsible for supporting one or more sales teams for all aspects of account management during the sales and selling cycle. Maintain assigned accounts on a day-to-day basis after the close of a sale, from order booking through invoice clearance. The position has frequent contact with clients, high level industry executives, and a diverse group of internal constituents. Position is focused on exceeding our customers’ post sale needs, while adhering to all internal policies and processes.
Are you a sales and analytics specialist with a passion for entertainment and home media? Then Paramount Pictures has an exciting opportunity! Our ideal candidate has the relationships and savvy to help grow Paramount's vast Home Media library presence in the ever-competitive market. We're looking for someone with the passion, drive, and right mentality to thrive in our national team!
The perfect candidate to join our team would be engaged and current on industry trends across digital, physical and VOD for both Paramount and its competitors.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Plan, develop, build, and execute strategic sales and marketing initiatives across distribution channels
- Meet or exceed Fiscal Year Financial Sales goals in Net Revenue for aforementioned account portfolio
- Prepare, build, and deliver all sales promotion programs and literature
- Monitor and ensure Paramount Home Media is competitive in its specialized market, working with our marketing, finance and manufacturing departments to proactively develop programs and strategies to meet our goals
- Assist the Vice President of Sales in strategically managing and executing on monthly and annual sales plans and goals based on a variety of metrics, determining the best and most profitable way to reach these revenue objectives
- Develop and maintain business relationships with key customer constituents
- Support the Executive Director of Sales and Distribution in the planning, developing, and executing of marketing and sales initiatives against customer sales strategic plan
- Must keep Executive Director and internal constituents completely informed on all activities of vendors across Theatrical titles and all Labels' partner releases on a weekly, if not daily basis
Noggin is a leading interactive learning service for families with little kids. We help young kids develop skills, knowledge and passions through play with the characters they love. We also help parents help their kids thrive. A multi-platform direct-to-consumer offering, Noggin reaches families in the domestic market through standalone mobile apps, connected TV apps, and add-on channels. We are establishing a team of highly motivated individuals who are eager to work in a start-up-like environment within a large media company. We need innovators and self-starters who are passionate about playful learning and comfortable working in a fast-paced, creative-led organization.
The Product Manager role:
The Product Manager will lead the Noggin web experience. S/he will shepherd business and user needs through the many stages of product development, including ideation, research, planning, and execution.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of a learning and media-focused product strategy and vision supported by research, data and business goals.
- Lead all aspects of the entire lifecycle of web features, from definition to prioritization to technical implementation, in collaboration with cross-functional partners, designers, developers and QA.
- Define roadmap in collaboration with Noggin leadership, content and marketing teams
- Lead scoping and prioritization efforts
- Handle implementation, including QA
- Lead regular iteration and improvement cycles based on feedback from users, customer support, and data analytics
- Break down complex problems into manageable steps by authoring and prioritizing epics and user stories.
- Be a leader on a cross-functional scrum team—foster a creative, collaborative and focused culture to produce the best results possible.
- Analyze product use and performance to continually focus on subscription growth and engagement.
- Communicate product roadmap and requirements across teams and departments clearly and effectively.
The Americas Corporate & Business Development group plays a significant role in the growth of the business by working with all of the divisions of the organization to help build and drive revenue growth. The group is responsible for developing and delivering corporate presentations & communications, leading and executing strategic analyses & initiatives, and developing, analyzing & executing strategic business development opportunities across all brands and products in the Americas region (Latin America & Canada).
This role concentrates on providing analytical and PowerPoint presentation support to the members that make up our department.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting the team in conducting and communicating analysis to drive the region’s growth and profitability
- Provide interpretive data analyses and develop presentations that efficiently convey findings.
- Work closely with the Corporate & Business Development team and other teams across the Americas to request and receive data and information
- Gather economic, political and industry data and convert it into significant analysis and presentations to be communicated to executive teams
- Concisely summarize data to build compelling analyses and engaging presentations
- Keeper of all department documents including tracking documents, timelines, execution calendar, status sheets and the sponsorship portal
- Actively participate in various meetings (Team, inter-departmental), as well as client meetings or presentations, as needed
Viacom Ad Solutions is a leading innovative advertising organization that delivers the advertising revenue across all Viacom media brands using cutting-edge research, data, partner marketing, and sales strategy approaches. We work across all media platforms – TV, digital, social, experiential/ live events, emerging platforms; and all audiences – from young kids with the Nickelodeon brands, to Millennials with brands like MTV and Comedy Central; as well as fans of TV Land.
Viacom is always on the lookout for fresh talent at the Client Service Representative level to join our MPS team.
The CSR is responsible for supporting one or more sales teams for all aspects of account management during the sales and selling cycle. Maintain assigned accounts on a day-to-day basis after the close of a sale, from order booking through invoice clearance. The position has frequent contact with clients, high level industry executives, and a diverse group of internal constituents. Position is focused on exceeding our customers’ post sale needs, while adhering to all internal policies and processes.
- Build effective relationships at agencies through on-going communication with various departments i.e. Buying, Traffic, and Accounting
- Coordinate with Sales, P&I, and Client Service Management on the maintenance of agency accounts including:
- Upfront and Scatter order entry
- Timely delivery of advertiser schedules/flowcharts
- Input of all inventory adds, deletes, and moves per P&I, and/or client direction (with appropriate approval)
- Maintain schedule changes, both internal and external, including follow-up with agencies
- Product/Brand allocations
- Discrepancy resolution
- Invoice Clearance
- Flight Changes
- Liability tracking
- ADU scheduling
- MSA post analysis
- EDI maintenance for applicable accounts
- Collaborate with sales teams in weekly meetings and thorough maintenance of account status reports
- Proficient use of WIDE ORBIT and PLAN-IT systems to manage deals
- Support and enhance agency relationships by monitoring requests and ensuring commercial spots are booked according to guidelines
- Monitor BOB and unit exception reports to ensure all contracted dollars are booked and all unschedulable units are placed
- Work with P&I to flight deals, distribute weekly weights, maintain CPM guidelines, manage the effect of program changes on schedules
- Communicates daily with Commercial Operations to resolve any traffic issues and reconcile discrepancies
- Work closely with Billing and A/R teams to reconcile and clear invoices in a timely manner, monitor accounts receivable, and issue invoice adjustments
We're looking for a candidate who wants to use their music and licensing experience for an opportunity at one of the world's biggest entertainment companies. Does this sound exciting? Then we have a fantastic opportunity for you! We’re searching for our next assistant to provide administrative support for three Vice Presidents of Creative Music & Licensing Strategy in our Hollywood office.
Our department is responsible for the business affairs of all music and media licensing coming in and going out of the complete ViacomCBS brand umbrella. We are a diverse and dynamic team that negotiates deals, ties up copyright and clearance issues, provides music supervision services, and sources and integrates creative assets into our original programming. It's a phenomenal team to work for, and we are excited to welcome the newest member of our team!
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Maintaining the calendars and phones for three executives, including coordinating many appointments, meetings and conference calls with a variety of partners
- Assisting in planning of events and outings for department outings and vendor/client events, responding to facility and location coordination/issues, and assisting with special projects as needed
- Coordinating all necessary travel and expense arrangements
- Revising, building, and editing correspondence, agendas, recaps and agreements
- Preparing, distributing and coordinating sales documents, pitch decks, and presentations
- Updating and distributing organizational documents for the entire department, including contact lists and ViacomCBS Organizational Charts
- Ordering and maintaining office supplies for the West Coast office
- Liaising with building management regarding all facilities problems and needs, new hire requests, and general building concerns
- Performing music research for requested titles, including research on record labels, publishers, artists, labels, publishing information, and sampled material using various internet and in-house programs
- Track, archive and coordinate the entire process and execution of payment of licenses, including securing signatures on license agreements, processing payment through S/MART, and scanning all agreements into our file server
- Research time-sensitive payment information in SAP, attending to customer services needs for payment inquiries, and coordinating payment issues with Accounting, Production Management, Tax Compliance and Accounts Payable
- Research copyright information (i.e. record label information, songwriter information, publishing information and film and TV distributors)
- Tracking and updating programming rights and show tracking reports, including end of year accruals
- Coordinating and maintaining the reporting and placing of cue sheets on the shared drive and in their respective folders
