Manager, Content Planning

This is a Full Time Job


About the Role & Team
Disney's Direct to Consumer team oversees the Hulu and Disney+ streaming businesses within Disney Entertainment helping to bring The Walt Disney Company's best-in-class storytelling to fans and families everywhere. The Disney+ Programming and Content Curation team is responsible for leading content planning, scheduling, on-service merchandising, slate management, and programming insights that contribute to a cohesive strategic content approach for the service.
What You Will Do
The Manager, Content Planning will be responsible for supervising title intake and governance for all content coming to Disney+. This role kicks off the process for bringing titles into scope for the service and partners closely with operational teams to shepherd titles through the content planning lifecycle. This role reports to the Sr. Manager, Content Planning.
• Lead title-by-title intake from initiation, inclusive of placeholder and registration updates. Funnel titles and title-level details through systems and tools for accurate planning, forecasting, and reporting purposes.
• Day-to-day contact for communication with verticals across Content Planning needs, inclusive of coordinating and preparing data driven reports and summaries to aid end-to-end title planning, and high-level presentations for executives and internal partners.
• Maintain clean data through the lifecycle of a title.
• Analyze all content for gap analysis, scope cleanup, and reporting.
• Partner closely with collaborators as needed to remediate title details and help drive data integrity and process optimization conversations.
• Represent Disney+ Content Planning & Scheduling in meetings with a professional and hardworking demeanor.
• Handle any challenges with a solution-oriented mentality, and act as project manager for ad hoc requests and deliverables as they arise.

Required Qualifications and Skills
• 7+ years of experience in a field related to slate planning, content strategy, content curation, localization, lifecycle planning, and project management, ideally in digital media and entertainment.
• 1+ year of people management experience
• Excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong diplomatic mentality and proven record working well in a team environment and across a matrixed organization.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a dedication to accuracy.
• Ability to identify and complete opportunities to improve title planning and recommend solutions that drive impact to the business.
• Passion and insight into The Walt Disney Company segments, brands and franchises, the elements that define them, and expertise to build further audience engagement.
• Strong emotional intelligence and collaborative spirit.
• Ability to adapt quickly to new technology and constantly evolving organizations, and to thrive in very fast-paced working environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• SVOD or Linear TV experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with localization processes is a plus.

Education

• Bachelor's degree

The hiring range for this position in CA is $102,000.00 to $136,700.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.