Responsibilities

• Strategic & Functional Team Lead: Define the vision for content experiences & entertainment initiatives on behalf of our clients; work with cross-functional teams to bring this vision to life
• Work hand-in-hand with the Experience Planning and Strategy teams to mine insights that will help establish deeper connections with consumers and that inform and inspire your big media thinking
• Actively build out opportunities that deliver on our clients’ marketing and media objectives with networks, digital publishers, and more
• Develop sound recommendations to clients, with provocative insights, big ideas, cultural proof points and compelling tactics
• Understand and implement approved measurement models to justify investment and quantify results from programs
• Develop close relationships with media strategy and investment teams to align our team’s content programs to broader strategic priorities
• Stay atop of content, storytelling and technology trends and how those impact the client business
• Support the Managing Executive Director and Client Business Leads with presentation materials, status updates, and ad hoc meetings to ensure successful communication with advertising and media clients and agency partners on a consistent basis
• Offer support to Hearts and Science Leadership on new business pitches and marketing collateral on an as-needed basis
• Execution: Act as a content expert for clients, integrated agency teams, and partners to oversee the execution of multiple programs across the year

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in branded content, integrated partnerships, or strategic partnership development
• Ability to think differently: creative and adaptive, entrepreneurial, independently minded; deeply immersed in cultural understanding and driven by a desire to know more of the world / to better understand people’s motivations and behaviors in the shifting landscape
• Relentless pursuit of cultural zeitgeist and passion for all forms of entertainment
• Experience in concept development, production oversight, talent contracting/management, and foundational understanding of working with and managing media partners
• Exceptional project management skills, with ability to manage multiple work streams and multiple teams with strong quality control
• Ability to address challenges, work under pressure, follow-through and solve problems quickly in the face of challenges
• Ability to effectively and confidently communicate information in both verbal and written formats (Development of ideas, pitches, research and recaps, client presentations, etc.
• Experience implementing effective measurement models, synthesizing data to prove value and program success
• Can manage peer level clients with a successful track record in account management and client service