Sr Specialist Merchandising and Content Curation

Position Summary

Samsung TV Plus is the goto service for free premium entertainment that allows content owners and advertisers to engage consumers at scale. As a leader in free adsupported TV (FAST) and videoondemand (AVOD) Samsung TV Plus is the #1 free adsupported app on Samsung Smart TVs with over 3000 adsupported linear channels available across 30 territories and over 630M active devices Samsung TV Plus is exclusively available across Samsung TV Galaxy Smart Monitor and Family Hub lineups.

The Merchandising team is seeking someone to own both daytoday curation maintenance and largescale strategic campaigns to maximize engagement prioritize partnerships and execute on editorial tentpoles.

Role and Responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Spearhead engaging merchandising campaigns; including sourcing creative developing campaign briefs campaign and postmortem analysis and documentation.
• Manage an offshore team trained in curation operations and asset management. Develop and maintain various exhibits and guides to ensure smooth workflows and independent work.
• Request manage review and approve merchandising creative for banners and other key placements.
• Determine creative needs on monthly and quarterly basis and manage workflow to ensure all creative is sourced produced QCd and ready in time for publishing. Evaluate how to most effectively merchandise content and events and provide creative guidance to external partners and internal teams as applicable.
• Own daytoday usage of internal curation/ tool. Identify issues and escalate accordingly. Test new features and provide feedback. Submit requests for new/improved features as needed.
• Flex your curation expertise to curate new channels and content across the product as needed. Advise on placement and logic of programmatic/recommendation rows.
• Elevate content channels and topical events/opportunities via weekly hero banner merchandising.
• Maintain calendar/tracking exhibits to organize editorial opportunities.
• Audit incoming Kids content to ensure COPPA compliance and that appropriate ad tags are applied prior to curation.
• Escalate any content operations or curation issues identified by either offshore team or internal team to Manager Content Planning & Merchandising and/or crossfunctional teams as applicable. Monitor progress and ensure resolution in timely manner.
• Lead weekly meetings and perform miscellaneous tasks/projects as applicable.

Skills and Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent related work experience required
• 5 years of programming/content curation experience with 3 years experience in Merchandising/Editorial role at FAST/AVOD/SVOD service
• Demonstrated strength in Microsoft Office Suite especially Excel
• Understanding of CMS and MAM systems metadata and Programmatic/AI/ML curation tools
• Proven experience developing and publishing creative to drive engagement and promote content
• Proven Merchandising/Promotional/Marketing campaign development and postmortem evaluation
• Broad knowledge and passion for entertainment and pop culture including movies TV music and sports
• Experience with kids programming a plus
• Experience with international programming a plus
• Proven success with datadriven decision making
• Airtable experience a plus
• Excellent collaborator with ability to work across a large organization and language barriers to drive results
• Strong work ethic and attention to detail
• Ability to overcome technical hurdles and reprioritize tasks accordingly

Compensation for this role for candidates based in Los Angeles CA is expected to be between $90000 $125000. Actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills and experience and comparison to other employees in the role.

Regular fulltime employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including: Medical Dental Vision Life Insurance 401(k) Employee Purchase Program Tuition Assistance (after 6 months) Paid Time Off Student Loan Program (after 6 months) Wellness Incentives and many more.

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