Manager, New Content

This is a Full Time Job

Position
Manager, New Content (Remote)

About Cinereach
Strategy. Story. Impact

Cinereach was founded on a simple yet challenging mission: support vital, artful films. For over 15 years, Cinereach has proudly supported the creation of beautiful, culturally relevant, and award-winning films and the filmmaking community at large. As one of media's few artist-friendly organizations, we've earned the trust of our valued communities, by seeking creators, visionaries, and change-makers who share our bold vision to co-create stories that amplify cultural shifts and lead to measurable progress. It's at the core of all we do

As a strategy-informed media incubator, Cinereach today is a playground for experimentation where imaginations thrive, stories flourish, and every medium offers fresh opportunities. Driven by curiosity, we journey together - creating an environment that encourages experimentation, learns from failure and thrives on curiosity - as we seek to catalyze meaningful narratives by incorporating community, culture and research into compelling content.

The Opportunity
The Manager, New Content has a critical role on the Cinereach Studio team. Reporting to the CLO / Business Affairs Lead, this individual will spearhead efforts to identify opportunities that further the company's mission. This role will be a key liaison between Cinereach and the wider emergent content industry and through your detailed reporting and insights, will be instrumental to the organization's programmatic planning.

Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate for this position is collaborative, humble, responsive, a good listener and quick learner with follow through, and works well in fast-paced team environments. You are an adept and adaptable communicator both in speech and writing, you are both pragmatic and ethical in negotiation, with a passion for discovery and innovation in the content arena. You're energized by constantly evolving media business models, new technologies, platforms and distribution channels. You have your finger on the pulse of content trends and emerging content creators. As an analytical thinker, you're able to synthesize and interpret new discoveries into future opportunities for Cinereach Studio.

The candidate should have entertainment industry experience, be an avid learner, have excellent judgment and analytical skills and passion and commitment to mission-driven work.

Skills & Qualifications
• At least 3 years of professional experience in the entertainment industry, ideally at a major talent agency, management company, entertainment law firm or other media company
• A strong interest and/or experience in business development, consulting or partnership management
• Proven experience with creating and giving internal and external presentations
• Experience working within the content ecosystem (film, TV, web content, interactive, video, social, etc.)
• Experience with professional communications support and outreach, including email communications with external partners and liaising with PR, or marketing support as necessary
• Experience with synthesizing data
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and analytical
• Avid learner with ability to be agile and pivot with the change of strategic plans or current trends
• Excellent judgment
• Passion and commitment to mission-driven work and strong interest in working in a creative industry
• Self-directed, resourceful and innovative
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Job Responsibilities
• Administrative Support:
• Assisting with research & planning; sourcing, vetting and prioritizing opportunities or leads as needed for workshop collaboration and potential investments, provide notes and summaries, review a variety of materials, and create comparative analyses.
• General project support, which might include event planning, coordination of logistics, setting meetings and schedules, initiating timelines, etc.
• Giving notes on scripts and pitches

Strategic Support:
• Attending new media/interactive / emerging platform conferences, and making and sustain key connections with gatekeepers/influencers
• Identifying and evaluating emergent players across industries to help identify potential for new high impact partnerships and collaborations
• Supporting business development efforts, and helping to forge new key strategic relationships under the guidance and plan of supervisor
• Synthesizing data, feedback, trends and other information to supply the team with data points that aid in the decision making process and help to shape the programmatic roadmap
• Articulating big ideas and concepts that help the team's understanding of emergent trends, key players, industry moves, etc. in presentations including comparative analyses of recommendations how Cinereach might engage in the market

Some travel may be necessary.

Salary range: $70K - $83K