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-Maintains and administers YouTube CMS Network consisting of 27 channels, generating $500K+ in monthly top-line revenue-Manages channel network onboarding, month-end financial reporting, rights management / claiming services, and direct sales inventory-Runs and optimizes paid view boosting media campaigns across YouTube, Twitter, and Tik Tok-Works in tandem with accounting team to record and true up monthly media network finance analytics and provide payments to content creators-Facilitates fan engagement surveys and brand lift studies to provide added value to partnership campaigns

-Manages a team of two mid-level managers and fifteen operations specialists-Uses quantitative and qualitative data to make decisions steering direction of operations team-Develops best practices for day-to-day operations and data analysis-Oversees weekly scrum and status meetings, assign and delegates projects, and leads post-mortem review of completed assignments-Monitors project tasks, milestones and updates throughout a project's lifecycle-Builds benchmarks and KPIs to achieve personal and business goals

LEADERSHIP:-Direct supervisor of two managers on Zefr’s RightsID Client Solutions team, each overseeing teams of six to fifteen specialists-Conduct performance reviews and develop plans for career growth amongst direct reports-Main point-of-contact for BPO vendors-Establish relationships with vendors and creates KPIs to track and maintain vendor performancePROCESS MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION:-Conduct weekly goal-setting meetings to keep day-to-day, team-wide responsibilities aligned with top-priority business goals-Operationalizes and creates solutions for a team and processes to scale-Communicate directly with Account Management team to execute client-specific goals -Quickly pivot and experiment with new procedures to identify the best strategy for accomplishing each client’s specific objectivesDATA AND ANALYTICS:-Build dashboards for monitoring RightsID performance and revenue data-Generate and analyzes performance reports to direct initiatives for increasing overall profit margins-Calculate and distributes monthly performance-based bonuses-Monitor weekly copyright claim revenue data via YouTube Analytics

Venice Ca

LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGY:-Oversaw the day-to-day operations of a 70-person digital copyright management team-Brainstormed with senior executives to develop and execute new strategies for increasing employee productivity and satisfaction-Crafted incentive based bonus system which increased accuracy by 30% while simultaneously minimizing cost margins-Eliminated department growth restrictions by developing plan to transfer team to offsite operationsPROJECT MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS:-Managed variety of tasks and projects using JIRA, Confluence and Asana-Proposed and led several innovative initiatives to increase revenue and streamline productivity, including the following projects to:--allow entire rights management department to work from home--multiply revenue sevenfold on music YouTube monetization claims--more efficiently manage team member workloads--simplify and hasten user day-to- day workflow--decrease cost margins by optimizing resource allocationLEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT:-Performed foundation training to employees across all departments for YouTube's CMS-Developed streamlined new-hire training program which reduced on-boarding time from one month to one week-Coordinated interviews, hiring, reviews, and dismissals of team members-Developed training materials across a variety of platforms, including Talent LMS, Keynote, and custom-built HTML sites-23% of direct reports promoted into higher internal roles

• Manage digital assets of copyrighted properties of major film studios and music labels using a proprietary CMS• Main point of contact with Sony Music Entertainment and corresponds directly with SME to discuss strategy of managing their online properties• Generates data reports to assist SME with analysis of their digital assets• Manages a smaller team of ten employees through their day-to-day work routines

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