Content Strategy & Planning Lead, Greenlights & Slate Management

Apple; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple TV's Content Strategy & Planning team in Culver City seeks a Lead for Greenlights & Slate Management. You will drive financial and strategic value by owning the greenlight process, reviewing budgets, and collaborating with Creative Development, Production Finance, and Business Affairs.

Reporting to the Head of Content Strategy & Planning, you will analyze deal terms, manage schedules, and innovate processes to support timely decisions across our slate.

Responsibilities

• Greenlights (40%): summarize deal terms, review budgets against comps, and coordinate with show leads for insights.
• Administrative tasks: collating invitee lists, emailing documents, submitting approvals, updating trackers, saving documents for SOX compliance.
• Drive deliverables for greenlight process for original content, working cross-functionally with Creative Development, Production, Business Affairs, and Production Finance.
• Fully own the greenlight process, flag budget issues, and resolve blockers to ensure timely materials for greenlight meetings.
• A successful candidate thrives in organization, project management, and relationship-building.
• For ATV content, partner with leads to shape shows, gaining early insider insight into casting, production locations, renewals, and studio partners.
• Greenlight meetings are biweekly with the Heads of ATV and constitute about 40% of bandwidth.
• Collaborate with CVM Lead to estimate target budgets and ensure CVM is incorporated into every greenlight.
• Innovate and enhance the greenlight process, especially how CVM is incorporated.
• Slate Management (15%): maintain reporting to inform upcoming fiscal year programming budgets.
• Film Ultimates (15%): contribute to ultimate evaluations within the slate framework.

Job description

Content Strategy & Planning Lead, Greenlights & Slate Management

Culver City, California, United States Corporate Functions

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you love thinking analytically and have a passion for entertainment? This is a unique opportunity where you can marry the two in which your strategic thinking will have an impact on Apple TV’s content. Are you passionate about using your financial knowledge to navigate complex challenges? As part of this group, you'll play an integral role in ensuring our day-to-day financial health. You and your team will support Apple's growth, both top and bottom line, by applying the same level of innovation toward financial matters as we do toward our products and services. Join us, and you'll have an important role in continuing Apple's legacy of efficiency and success. This is an exciting opportunity, rich in analysis and playing a critical role in supporting strategic decision making.The Content Strategy & Planning team at Apple TV is responsible for managing the greenlight process, content valuation, slate management, deal analysis, and film ultimates. As this is a start-up initiative within Apple, the right person for this role will be able to work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment while juggling multiple priorities.Reporting to the Head of Content Strategy & Planning, as the Content Strategy & Planning Lead, Greenlights & Slate Management you will be a thought leader responsible for our most complex and ambiguous challenges in shaping financial and strategic value for Apple TV. You will serve as a key advisor to leadership, using your deep financial expertise to influence content decisions that will define the service years to come.

Description

• Greenlights (40%) At a high level, the greenlight work includes reading and summarizing deal terms, reviewing proposed budgets for executive approval by cross referencing comps and increases to actual estimated final costs (EFCs) if an existing show are reasonable, and partnering cross-functionally with leads of each show to understand broader essential status insights that will be presented to leadership
• In addition to the general aforementioned process, there are administrative tasks that this individual also manages including collating invitee lists for each greenlight meeting, emailing memorialization approved documents, submitting route for system approvals, updating excel trackers, and saving down support documents for SOX compliance
• Drive deliverables for greenlight process for original content, working cross-functionally with Creative Development, Production, Business Affairs, and Production Finance
• Fully own the greenlight process leaning into a proactive nature including to flag budget issues, problem solving for delayed submissions or situational blockers to properly manage successful delivery of adequate materials for each greenlight meeting
• A successful person thrives in being organized, project management, and relationship building/collaboration
• For the right person that is passionate about ATV content, this is an exciting role as you get to partner with the leads directly creating our shows and you have early insider insight into who is being cast, where we are producing, what shows are being renewed or new shows are being picked up, which studios we partner with, etc.
• Greenlight meetings are held with the Heads of ATV on a biweekly basis so greenlights are a constant stream of work for this individual, estimated at 40% of total bandwidth
• Partner with the Contribution Value Model (CVM) Lead to estimate target budgets to inform renewal and greenlight decisions. Ensuring this is incorporated into every bluelight and greenlight
• Innovate and enhance the greenlight process as it stands today, particularly how CVM is incorporated
• Slate Management (15%)
• Partner with Content FP&A and scheduling team to ensure alignment in slate management and financial reporting
• Maintain slate management reporting to provide department heads context to their upcoming fiscal year programming budgets
• Film Ultimates (15%)
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