Project Manager/ Analyst – CMS (Entertainment Studio / Media)
Long term contract
Day 1 Onsite Culver City, CA
Hybrid – 3 days onsite / week
*Enterprise Business Solutions IS&T for Apple TV+*
Job Summary:
The EBS IS&T team is directly responsible for the technology strategy and delivery of solutions and IT systems used to enable the Apple TV+ team line of business. The CMS Project Manager/Business Analyst role maintains a strong awareness of the processes and systems utilized by all Apple TV+ lines of business. This person is responsible for the integrity of the CMS which serves our Apple Studios teams. A blend of studio/ entertainment business, technical acumen, and project management, coupled with a creative eye and experience managing site content and imagery is critical to success in this role.
Key qualifications
- Proactively take ownership of the integrity of the content on the CMS platform through standardization of the look and feel, imagery and iconography.
- Prior experience working with media production teams and understanding of their workflows and unique challenges.
- Familiarity with using and editing in a CMS platform.
- Understanding of global corporate business processes and their relationship to technology
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, unwavering curiosity, and delivery mentality
- Communicates effectively with personnel at all levels (staff to executive)
- Effectively coordinates work and communication across disparate groups of individuals.
- Hands-on experience defining and documenting process flows.
- Establishes milestones and meets commitments on deadlines.
- Effectively navigates through complexities to create clear and defined paths.
- Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Able to quickly adapt to new technical and functional concepts.
- General understanding of video and photography specs
Duties and Responsibilities
- Content Project Management
- Track progress of content page builds of a large group of stakeholders and resolve blockers.
- Manage and prioritize all content changes coming from the business stakeholders.
- Prioritize the work of the CMS Content Manager
- With the Content Manager institute and manage a QC process all pages and links
- Becoming familiar with content context to point out inconsistencies to stakeholders.
- Ensure all content is processed through Legal QC and feedback is incorporated.
- Work with internal photographer on coordinating imagery for each of the content pages.
- Clear imagery with Legal and track the rights windows of all imagery used on the platform to ensure they continue to be clear to use Learn editing functionality and features of the CMS in order to make changes.
- Monitor mobile version UX/UI bugs to ensure integrity of the mobile version and submit UX/UI tickets to correct inconsistencies.
Business Analyst
- Facilitate process and technology discussions across functionally and regionally disparate groups.
- Coordinate the delivery of new systems and extensions of existing systems capabilities.
- Evaluate options against a variety of factors and recommend long and short-term strategies.
- Lead and/or participate in the development of functional requirements technical specifications.
- Develop and maintain a working knowledge of trends and best practices within Apple.
- Collaborate with business partners to identify technology needs and ensure documentation is submitted.
- Create and communicate deployment schedules of new system features to relevant stakeholders.
- Contribute updates to the weekly scorecard for your area and flag risks to the timeline.
- Create and define Epics and Features with high level details of user requirements.
- Create user stories with clear user requirements, acceptance criteria and use cases.
- Making decisions on development priority for each sprint for your epics
- Create tickets for the design team to facilitate designs to include in development tickets.
- Present Epics and Stories to design and development team when planning
- Submit, manage, and test bug and enhancement tickets to the CMS vendor.
Education/Experience
- BA/BS degree or equivalent preferred
- Entertainment workflow familiarity preferred.
- 5-10 years related experience PMP or other project management certification a plus.
Pay Range: $70/hr – $75/hr
The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, and vision as well as 401K contributions.
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