Senior Content Strategy Manager, Amazon

• The candidate should be business-minded, enthusiastic, efficient, and detail-oriented
• This position is right for you if you're entrepreneurial, experienced in analyzing and valuing premium entertainment content --particularly for subscription businesses -- and are excited to not only build a new business, but also to explore new categories of podcast listening and monetization
• You must be an avid podcast listener!
• 6+ years experience in analytical/quantitative disciplines
• Understanding of subscription entertainment business models, dynamics, and drivers
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, or other relevant fields that demonstrates quantitative orientation
• Experience working in fast paced, deadline driven environments
• Ability to work on and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, while being able to identify problems before they arise
• Proficiency in Programming Finance
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbal and written, across all levels of the organization with a proven ability to influence others

Desirable

• This full-time position will report to the Head of Content Operations, Programming, and Strategy
• It is a highly cross-functional role that will work with many departments across Wondery and Amazon to ensure we are balancing our strategic goals and achieving impactful outcomes for our content
• They will have a positive attitude that helps them thrive in an intellectually curious, fast-paced, and deadline-driven environment
• In this role, you’ll work on answering the following questions:
• Is our programming strategy leading to new listeners and subscribers and maximizing lifetime value?
• How should we allocate our investment across categories, genres, and content types?
• Are we investing enough in various content types?
• Refine the programming strategy for Wondery podcast content, (inclusive of Wondery+-specific original content investments, partnership investments), ensuring we maximize the impact of our investments on Wondery's listener growth goals
• Define and oversee the allocation of the content budget, creating mechanisms and analyses to regularly evaluate and track performance of individual titles and the overall content offering, feeding back insights to the relevant stakeholders to refine the offering
• Establish key goals in the budget in conjunction with Content and Partnerships teams, for which those teams would be accountable
• Develop business cases for investing into new categories, genres, or content types to grow Wondery's listener base
• Operate globally to establish frameworks that can be adopted and adjusted for local needs regionally and in different territories
• Work closely with Analytics & Research, as well as Finance, to develop and optimize the analytical frameworks to evaluate the impact of our content investments, windowing strategies, and distribution strategies, and to accurately forecast the impact of future investments
• Assess incoming Original and third-party content opportunities, evaluating both the potential value for Wondery and Wondery+
• Track and evaluate customer acquisition, retention and lifetime value by show, genre, category, content type