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HGTV is looking for a talented, highly motivated individual with strong data analysis, storytelling and project management skills to join the HGTV Insights team at Discovery.

The Research Manager is responsible for leveraging a variety of research resources to provide data driven intelligence and consumer insights in support of content strategy and marketing initiatives. Audience behavior, programming trends, industry intelligence, and the impact of the shifting media landscape are all C-suite topics that would be communicated by the manager and team to management.

Responsibilities
1. Work with VP HGTV Research and manage HGTV Analyst on all brand and industry related reporting
2. Interface with teams across the company to answer C-suite questions with speed, insight and accuracy
3. Cultivate strong working relationships within the broader Research and Consumer Insights, Finance, Marketing, and Digital teams
4. Assist in managing any qualitative projects that arise, including aiding in project design. Examples include program testing, marketing effectiveness, and brand insights
5. Help build and maintain databases that efficiently track and organize relevant internal and external stats including linear ratings, digital viewership, competitive positioning/analysis, industry trends and other relevant KPIs
6. Communicate data and insights in meetings, strategy sessions, emails and presentations
7. Lean into scheduling and content distribution decisions through program analytics and lead weekly research/scheduling meetings
8. Respond to ad-hoc requests regarding network, competitors and series linear performances
9. Transform research findings into actionable insights and informative stories in a polished format via email, PowerPoint, and other tools

Endeavor Analytics seeking a Mgr to lead our business data and analytics team for the IMG Events portfolio. The team’s responsibilities are critical to the success of the consumer revenue and marketing efforts. This role will partner with brand marketing, growth marketing and finance leadership to develop strategic revenue plans that will drive growth for the overall portfolio. The right candidate will possess excellent business and communication skills and will be able to prioritize work across the portfolio to maximize growth opportunities. They are passionate about growing and developing a team that promotes an insights-driven, data culture. Responsibilities: • Define the data and analytics strategy in partnership with marketing and finance leadership. • Build, develop and lead a team of analysts that are accountable for the development, and maintenance of scalable solutions for ongoing metrics, reports, and analyses to support the portfolio business needs. • Lead the management of the on-going analysis and reporting of IMG Events’ consumer revenue streams, while serving as the leader on data systems, data mining, and analysis to scale our capabilities, uncover trends, and develop insights. • Be the voice of insights and analytics across the IMG Events ecosystem • Build and maintain relationships with analytics, digital marketing finance, and other business stakeholders throughout the company.

Responsibilities:
• Research and sometimes produce and shoot documentary, news, studio, live / as-live, social & digital productions.
• Generate story string-outs, scene cutdowns, and digital clips for documentary, news, studio, live / as-live, social & digital productions.
• Sync and log footage.
• Support Producers and Editors as needed.
• Coordinate with Supervising Producer(s) and Senior Post-Production Manager to meet delivery deadlines for clients.
• Other duties as assigned.

Summit NJ

Digital Analyst Responsibilities

You are responsible for Campaign setup across digital and paid social platforms

• Analyze & Interpret data from multiple sources across various digital channels
• Present comprehensive client-facing analysis recaps
• Provide and present recommendations and insights for future campaigns
• Once campaigns are live, you will monitor campaigns, analyze results, optimize, and report
• This position is client facing

Sesame Workshop is seeking a Manager, Research- Children’s Educational Media Reporting to the Directors of Research (there are two), the manager’s work will focus on Sesame Workshop’s domestic initiatives—including video, digital and outreach projects for Sesame Street and other properties.  The right candidate will have had experience in a social science research lab and working directly with preschool-age children. 

Responsibilities Include:

• Supporting the coordination of research projects including scheduling school visits, training and managing interns and freelancers, and preparing protocols and stimuli
• Assisting the lead interviewer and sometimes acting as the lead interviewer on school visits
• Entering, coding and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data
• Leading small and large studies on occasion from start to finish (including protocol development and stimuli assembly, leading on interviewing, data analysis and report writing)
• Summarizing research results for a range of audiences
• Conducting literature searches and keeping up with the latest child development and media effects research
• Support Sesame Workshop research team with administrative tasks as needed

Do numbers tell you stories? Can you relay complex information in bite-sized nuggets to non-researchers? Do you enjoy influencing business decisions by providing fact-based recommendations infused with intuition? Our Research and Insights Team is comprised of wizards who practice the craft of “art and science.” We spend much of our time looking back at performance — and even more time looking forward making actionable recommendations for growing our business. We specialize in content, audience and revenue insights across all platforms. Come check out our pioneering work in predictive modeling, performance marketing and algorithms. Pocket protectors not required.

THE ROLE:  Senior Specialist, Advanced Advertising Solutions (AAS)
The Senior Specialist, Advanced Advertising Solutions (AAS) will be responsible for executing day-to-day objectives of Advanced Advertising Solutions assisting with product development and specializing in quality control, user acceptance testing (UAT) and optimization of advertising products across A+E Networks brands on web, mobile and OTT with a focus on new AVOD Platforms. Additionally, this position will oversee Strategic Partnerships with external video advertising health solutions such as Staq and Watching That to evaluate and monitor video ad delivery across all endpoints.

MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU’LL DO:

•    Under the direction of the Sr Director, Advanced Advertising Solutions onboard and certify video advertising across platforms, devices and points of distribution for web, mobile and CTV products with a focus on new OTT/AVOD Platforms. 

•    Educate and communicate technical requirements, development progress and project timelines to internal and external key stakeholders

•    Understand business needs and video serving technologies to address current and future opportunities with new ad products, enhancements and updates

•    Collaborate with Ad Tech partner technical teams during development sprints to test and address implementation issues as they arise

•    Monitor and track all elements of the digital products and ad serving technology stack for updates/releases to review and test prior to implementation. This primarily applies to video player, video ad servers, 2nd channel programmatic partners and 3rd party ad vendors.

•    Partner with Analytics and Ad Ops teams on any ad server integration issues that arise and work with internal and external key stakeholders to resolve as quickly as possible.


•    Interact with various business groups on behalf of AAS including Ad Operations, Digital  Product, and Revenue Management Teams to provide ad delivery data from various solutions including Staq and Watching That to maximize monetization capabilities across on and off domain locations.

•    Manage the data collection from point of origin which may include contacting various vendors/partners outside the company to resolve questions, inconsistencies, or obtain missing data; responsible for data quality and integrity.

•    Keep abreast of the rapidly-evolving technologies and trends in the TV and digital realms and build a thorough understanding of the media and advertising ecosystem and its key players. 

Sesame Workshop is looking for an Analyst/Senior Analyst, Media & Market Research who is an experienced market research professional to support company-wide market research needs. The Research Analyst will play a pivotal role in managing the day-to-day market research activities related to Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop and various business endeavors. This right candidate would be responsible for supporting the market research team across a variety of projects inclusive by not limited to rating analysis, syndicated research analysis, analyzing primary research data, creating sales sheets for business teams, etc.   

Please note:  This position is based in Sesame Workshop’s NYC office and requires a fulltime M-F 9:30 AM-5:30 PM commitment.  

Who you Report to:  This position reports to the Senior Director Market Research but will be working closely and in support of the Vice President Market Research and Senior Manager Market Research.

Responsibilities Include: 

• Day to day support for the research team
• Responsible for creating and distributing monthly rating reports
• Answer ad-hoc requests from business units across the company which may include creating sales sheets or pitch decks for various needs
• Be responsible for sending out “landscape updates” to the internal teams including quarterly competitive show update
• Be responsible for creating and distributing reports on various syndicated data including E-score, Brand Trends, Digital TV reports, etc.
• Support the market research team on various primary research projects

Sesame Workshop is looking for a Senior Research Analyst who is an experienced market research professional to support company-wide market research needs. The Research Analyst will play a pivotal role in managing the day-to-day market research activities related to Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop and various business endeavors. This right candidate would be responsible for supporting the market research team across a variety of projects inclusive by not limited to rating analysis, syndicated research analysis, analyzing primary research data, creating sales sheets for business teams, etc.   

Please note:  This position is based in Sesame Workshop’s NYC office and requires a fulltime M-F 9:30 AM-5:30 PM commitment.  

Who you Report to:  This position reports to the Senior Director Market Research but will be working closely and in support of the Vice President Market Research and Senior Manager Market Research.

Responsibilities Include: 

• Day to day support for the research team
• Responsible for creating and distributing monthly rating reports
• Answer ad-hoc requests from business units across the company which may include creating sales sheets or pitch decks for various needs
• Be responsible for sending out “landscape updates” to the internal teams including quarterly competitive show update
• Be responsible for creating and distributing reports on various syndicated data including E-score, Brand Trends, Digital TV reports, etc.
• Support the market research team on various primary research projects