A globally leading consumer device company headquartered in Cupertino, CA is looking for an Engagement Optimization Lead, Live Sports & Entertainment to join their team. In working cross-functionally with our product, analytics, and editorial teams, you will guide tactics for content presentation on our platform toward effective ends, constantly asking all of us to examine whether a given editorial effort — personalized or hand-curated — was effective in driving viewership, with performance data at the ready to guide what we do next, both in the short and long term.
Key Requirements:
- Tracking and monitoring of key engagement metrics and leading indicators, maintaining dialogue with our business, product, and analytics teams to ensure optimized engagement today and prudent roadmap choices tomorrow
- Responsible for driving improvement in impression to tap and impression to play rates for TV, including live and on-demand sports content
- Build Keynotes and additional resources for business reviews
- Work to stay current on viewership-driving tactics employed by other services in the space, with emphasis on how competitors package and surface live sports
- Manage cross-functional relationships and a variety of projects and initiatives with minimal direction
- Present analyses and recommendations to senior executives
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in an analytical role, ideally for a subscription business, with clear evidence and a track record of drawing business insights and recommendations from detailed analysis of content presentation or content management approaches
- Knowledge and passion for streaming services UI and products, as well as tactics used to drive engagement — including within live sports environments
- A love for Sports, and genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for the streaming and entertainment industry as a whole
- Experience working with or analyzing engagement data tied to professional team sports — such as globally beloved club-based sports with passionate, season-long fan communities — is strongly valued
- Familiarity with the unique engagement rhythms of bat-and-ball sports, where a long regular season, statistical depth, and devoted fandom create distinct content and merchandising opportunities
- Understanding of premium, event-driven motorsport properties, where race weekends, international broadcast windows, and a rapidly growing global fanbase demand a differentiated approach to content presentation and audience activation
- Strong analytical and creative problem solver who is data-driven, flexible, able to change directions quickly, and understands the nature of a fast-evolving, high-profile business
- Strong experience with and commitment to cross-functional collaboration; interpersonally savvy
- Comfort with synthesizing data into strategic recommendations and compelling slide presentations to senior executives
Preferred Qualifications:
- Have successfully led significant cross-functional initiatives in a large, complex organization, juggling the perspectives and inputs of a wide variety of key partners and collaborators
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, leading through influence toward alignment and execution in a highly matrixed organization
- Ability to think strategically on critical business needs, and to simultaneously act tactically — and tactfully — to complete them
- Proven track record of cultivating action collaboratively, both day-to-day and broadly across product development cycles
- Experience translating sports rights or live event data into actionable editorial and product recommendations that measurably improve fan engagement
Type: Contract
Duration: 12 months with extension
Work Location: Cupertino or Culver City, CA (hybrid)