Content Planning Associate

About the Role & Team

Disney’s Direct to Consumer team oversees the Hulu and Disney+ streaming businesses within Disney Entertainment, helping to bring The Walt Disney Company’s best-in-class storytelling to fans and families everywhere.

The Disney+ Global Content Programming and Subscriber Engagement team is responsible for leading content planning, scheduling, on-service merchandising, slate management, and programming insights that contribute to a cohesive strategic content approach for the service.

What You Will Do

Reporting to the Sr. Manager of Content Planning, the Content Planning Associate will assist in tracking Disney+ slate updates and collaborating with various teams throughout the planning lifecycle, such as Finance, Operations, Studios, Networks, and International Programming teams, to ensure alignment and adherence to business processes.

• Support day-to-day for tracking slate updates within the end-to-end content planning lifecycle, coordinating with key stakeholders (including executives) throughout the process.

• Support day-to-day content planning intake process, which includes adding titles to scope, capturing all associated creative and business details, routing for approvals, and communicating updates with cross-functional teams.

• Support Sr. Manager, Content Planning with ad hoc strategic projects tied to function.

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the team for slate-tracking processes related to the systems and tools we use, supporting efforts to improve these processes/systems.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 2+ years of experience in a similar field such as content planning, slate planning, content strategy, or scheduling.

• Experience with content planning tools; Airtable preferred.

• Proven ability to excel in ambiguous roles and dynamic processes, adapting through self-reliance and resourcefulness.

• Outstanding organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail and a dedication to accuracy.

• Ability to manage and process detailed information while keeping perspective on the bigger picture.

• Collaborate with others to problem solve and approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset.

• Ability to produce polished, accurate, and clear documents for internal stakeholders.

• Strong emotional intelligence and collaborative spirit

• Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Airtable, Excel, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Salesforce.

• SVOD or Linear TV experience a plus.

• Passion and insight into The Walt Disney Company segments, brands and franchises, the elements that define them, and expertise to build further audience engagement.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree