Manager, Pricing Analytics

Job Description

Summary of Position

Starz is seeking a manager to support pricing related initiatives across the domestic and international OTT business. The manager will assist with the global reporting and analysis of subscription pricing and price-promotion strategies, including developing tables and data fields within a Snowflake database environment; developing reports in Tableau, Excel, and PowerPoint; and supporting senior level team members in developing insights. The manager will be based in the Starz New York City offices and report to an Executive Director on the Insights & Analytics team.

Responsibilities
• Be the Insights & Analytics team lead in analyzing, reporting, and developing insights into subscription lifetime value and cohort analysis

• Partner with product management, product marketing, and finance in understanding and evaluating our pricing and promotion strategies

• Develop data products to proactively monitor current performance and track new pricing implementations and customer responses

• Draw insights from data and clearly communicate them to stakeholders as required

• Build multi-dimensional cross-platform performance reports/dashboards

• Respond to a wide variety of ad hoc requests from internal stakeholders

Qualifications & Skills
• 5+ years of professional experience in an analytics role

• A strong understanding of pricing concepts and frameworks such as subscription lifetime value and cohort analysis

• Experience with providing impactful analysis to support fundamental pricing efforts

• Advanced SQL programming skills, 3+ years of professional experience

• High degree of proficiency with data visualization tools (preferably Tableau), 2+ years of professional experience

• Comfortable working with stakeholders in different departments across the organization, utilizing collaboration skills

• Solid familiarity with database models, experience working with unstructured data, and experience loading large datasets into databases

• Knowledgeable about (at least some of) Python, Snowflake, AWS/S3, SageMaker, R

• Knowledgeable in statistics and/or machine learning

• Knowledgeable in economic principles, particularly supply and demand curves

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including explaining the business implications of data analysis/reports and developing data visualizations

• College degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or similar

About the Company

Business Unit Overview

Starz
With the Company aligning its studio operations behind the growth of its streaming business, Starz has become one of the pre-eminent modern premium global streaming platforms. Offering subscribers more than 7.500 television episodes, including Starz original series and provocative documentaries, along with a broad catalogue of first-run movies, Starz is taking the lead in delivering relatable premium content that makes it the platform of choice among a wide spectrum of female, African-American and other historically underserved audiences. Its focused brand, premium content and freedom from legacy relationships position Starz at the forefront of the new bundles emerging throughout the media ecosystem, a compelling value proposition to complement virtually every kind of subscription platform.

Distinguished by its successful and focused content strategy, top programming, exceptional curation and speed to market, Starz has quickly scaled its platform to become one of the most widely distributed and fastest-growing OTT services in the world, with OTT subscribers making up more than half of its global subscriber base. The Starzplay International premium subscription service offers a ''best of global SVOD'' content portfolio in more than 50 countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Canada, Japan and India through a bespoke and expanding network of distribution partners. The Starzplay Arabia joint venture is one of the leading SVOD operators in the fast-growing Middle East and North Africa region. The proprietary and highly-rated Starz app, a proven hit with US audiences, continues to roll out internationally.
Our Benefits
• Full Coverage – Medical, Vision, and Dental

• Work/Life Balance – generous sick days, vacation days, holidays, and Impact Day

• 401(k) company matching

• Tuition Reimbursement (up to graduate degree)

EEO Statement

Nearest Major Market: Manhattan

Nearest Secondary Market: New York City

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