Our client, the world’s leading entertainment streaming service, is looking for a Marketing Operations Manager to join their UCAN Marketing Operations & Production team, overseeing title-level campaign production, creative operations, and project management across their UCAN Non-Fiction slate (Unscripted, Sports, Doc Films/Series). Marketing Operations & Production is a center-of-excellence for creative operations, cross-functional project management, and marketing production, that works closely with Marketing, Communications, & Product groups at Client to connect their stories with millions of people worldwide.

This is an onsite, 12-month contract. You must be able to work in Los Angeles, CA, 3x per week and have no H1B Visa status. The hourly rate is $92.00 per hour plus benefits through Talent Table. There is no C2C.

The Role:

In this role, the candidate will be a key cross-functional partner, responsible for managing the end-to-end project management of a campaign, production budgets for promotional assets, and partnering with creative, media, social, publicity, and other cross-functional teams. This means that the candidate is a nimble, solutions-oriented, entrepreneurial, and a creative operations expert. They thrive in a fast-paced environment that requires them to bridge competing priorities amongst global and local cross-functional stakeholders – ensuring all assets are delivered on time, and on budget.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee a slate of Client’s UCAN titles by managing end-to-end campaign operational scope including: overseeing relevant budgets, creative development operational management, asset planning and production, and campaign fulfillment/delivery.
• Budget and track spend for UCAN title marketing launches across the entire lifecycle of a campaign (from Creative Development to Delivery).
• Define and manage milestones across an entire campaign lifecycle including: creative development timelines, advise on executive review timing, aggregate stakeholder delivery deadlines, production deadlines due dates and backout timings for asset rollouts (i.e. media deliveries, debuts, etc.).
• Manage creative agency NDAs, MSAs, SOWs and creative agency onboarding as needed.
• Track creative agency deliverables against the SOW and escalate to primary stakeholders any potential lock date delays and budget overages.
• Ensure that time-sensitive bottlenecks are eliminated and advise on delivery & budget risks to enable the creation and production of high-quality creative at a high velocity.
• Lead and manage cross-functional communications and workflows, ensuring effective exchange of campaign information and global dissemination of campaign milestones, assets, and deliverables.
• Partner with a team of operational producers responsible for managing finishing, localization, and trafficking of promotional materials. These include online and offline AV, key art and out-of-home, digital, and social creative assets.
• Manage day-to-day escalations and troubleshooting of creative development and production issues.
• Use data to inform production best practices, eliminating inefficiencies throughout their operational pipelines.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of creative project management and creative production experience, preferably at an entertainment studio, network, or agency.
• Proven track record of managing large cross-functional teams through successful marketing campaigns.
• Expert knowledge of marketing campaign and localization workflows, deeply understanding the creative and production process for video (trailers, TV spots, social creative, etc.), print/OOH and digital materials.
• Fluent in Video and Digital types and formats while understanding the fundamentals of asset management, servicing, and ad trafficking.
• High competency and proven track record of project management for high-profile global campaigns.
• Knowledgeable of the ever-evolving advertising landscape.
• Experience managing a high volume of creative and campaign types with geographically dispersed teams.
• Strategic thought partner and strong team player.

Personality Attributes:

• You are passionate and curious about all aspects of entertainment marketing.
• You are a natural-born communicator, connecting the dots when others cannot, and have the ability to simplify complex issues and questions.
• Has a marketer’s background and mindset.
• You thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment, possess a high level of intellectual curiosity, and demonstrate strong judgment in the face of ambiguity.
• You’re comfortable living in the gray and can navigate comfortably in ambiguity.
• You have a track record of successful cross-functional work and lead deftly across the many aspects of campaign development.
• A collaborative spirit who possesses a strong creative and strategic sensibility and who can expertly influence key stakeholders and foster deep relationships across the business.
• A competent professional who can effectively liaise and build trust and partnership with their cross-functional counterparts.
• You approach all challenges and obstacles with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• You are an agile, goal-oriented personality, driven to succeed, and always up for a challenge!

Notes:

• Onsite work from Tues-Thurs
• Ideally worked at the following companies: Snap, Meta, YouTube, Google, 72&Sunny, Anomaly, Widen&Kennedy, ChiatDay.