U.S. Content Strategy & Analysis Manager

This is a Full Time Job

Given the broad scope of the CS&A team, the right candidate for a Manager on the team will be someone who loves answering hard questions, obsesses over details, and jumps at the opportunity to take on new challenges. A love of media is also a must: content awareness & expertise are both critical to everything we do. The role will require a high level of collaboration with partners across WBD to deliver quality work in one of the highest priority businesses at the company.

Your Role Accountabilities…
• Run title-level greenlighting & renewal analyses within the Streaming division, developing narratives around valuation and performance insights to share with key stakeholders
• Create, expand, and help stress test analytical frameworks used for assessing key strategic questions across our content offering
• Build new ad hoc & iterative models to value content or predict other behavioral trends
• Become an expert on key large and heavily layered 1P & 3P Streaming data sources – everything from big picture indicators to small and technical nuances – so that we have the clearest performance story possible, as well as the cleanest model inputs
• Collaborate with other teams – especially Product Analytics, Data Science, Content Finance, Research, and Business Intelligence – to improve deliverables for key internal stakeholders across Programming, Acquisitions, Strategy, and Corporate
• Be able to work independently to complete project components, including finding novel approaches to questions when a tested approach just won't work, as well troubleshooting unexpected data points & outputs
• Compile and present content performance analyses through write-ups and presentations, often in response to ad hoc requests, sharing key findings in meetings as needed and owning stakeholder follow-ups
• Understand and work through the cross-platform dynamics between Streaming, Linear, and other platforms as it impacts potential outcomes for HBO Max and Discovery+
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of media industry trends and competitive activity
• Pitch, outline, and partner on new workflows and projects that will improve accuracy, efficiency, and/or the team's ability to be preemptive and innovate
• Across projects, partner with team's Director to provide guidance & support for more junior colleagues on both your immediate team and other CS&A teams
• Provide support for senior management in key presentations around content strategy, new initiatives, and major decisions

Qualifications & Experience…
• A Bachelor's Degree
• 5-10 years relevant work experience, working in areas like Analytics, Consulting, Investment Banking, or Research, informing strategic & corporate initiatives. Experience in media/communications is particularly useful but not required
• Excellent analytic skills and modeling capabilities, with a deep attention to detail
• An ability to synthesize output from analyses, identify the ''so-what'', develop early hypotheses, and propose the next line of inquiry
• Experience in building executive-level materials, with a keen eye for presentation design, and the ability to distill complex concepts and analyses into clear, easy-to-understand outputs
• A high level of intellectual curiosity, a focus on generating results, and the highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics
• A passion for entertainment and media, and a drive to follow industry trends
• A collaborative and diplomatic attitude, but also a willingness to take and defend data-and-analysis-backed positions as part of the dialogue around content selection
• Experience wrangling large data sets and developing analytical narratives with a broad scope of data points & data sources; a big plus includes experience writing SQL queries or Python/R scripts, or using visualization/manipulation tools like Looker and Tableau
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint; for Excel, a broad knowledge of formulas/functions, especially as it relates to modeling & data wrangling
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A team player through & through – collaboration with other members of CS&A and adjacent orgs is constant and critical to your success