Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harpoon Media is an innovative creator agency operating at the intersection of the creator economy and film and TV marketing. The Entertainment Data & AI Operations Specialist will develop AI-driven analytics workflows, operationalize audience-intent metrics, manage campaign data, and translate social and sentiment insights into client-facing presentations and executive reporting for studios, networks, and brands.
Responsibilities
- Co-Develop AI Analytics Workflows: Partner directly with technical leadership inside Claude Projects to build, test, and refine advanced prompt chains, system instructions, and categorization rubrics that analyze short-form campaign engagement
- Intent-to-Watch Attribution: Help operationalize our proprietary Intent-to-Watch (ITW) metrics across TikTok, Reels, and YouTube—training models to separate authentic ticket-buying/tune-in friction from passive fan reactions
- Campaign Data Management: Ingest social comment threads, engagement telemetry, and creative performance logs into our analytical workflows, ensuring clean data hygiene and structured outputs
- Post-Campaign Reporting & Client Presentations: Prepare comprehensive post-campaign wrap reports and actively present performance findings, intent data, and creative takeaways directly to studio, network, and brand clients
- Executive Studio Deliverables: Translate complex social and sentiment data into clear, boardroom-grade reporting modules, case studies, and dashboard-ready insights for film distributors and streaming marketing executives
- Cultural & Genre Calibration: Continuously calibrate our analytical frameworks and prompt guardrails against changing internet slang, memes, and platform formats across theatrical, streaming, and gaming releases
- Operational Agility: Support company leadership with campaign tracking, presentation decks, and ad-hoc analytical runs to keep our data-driven offerings moving fast
Skills
- Candidates must be based in the US or Canada
- You use frontier LLMs (specifically Claude and ChatGPT) daily
- You understand prompt framing, structured JSON outputs, system instructions, context windows, and how to spot logic errors or hallucinations
- High proficiency in Google Sheets/Excel for data structuring, pivot analysis, and reporting hygiene
- Experience using Google Slides, Canva, or Keynote to craft compelling, narrative-driven decks, with the ability to confidently speak to data in client meetings
- A major or background in Data Analytics, Statistics, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field
- You must have at least two years of hands-on experience in data analytics, campaign performance measurement, or digital research within the entertainment sector—such as at a film studio, streaming platform, entertainment research consultancy (e.g., NRG, MarketCast), or media agency managing entertainment accounts
- You are comfortable presenting data narratives to external partners, answering client questions on performance methodology, and translating technical AI metrics into clear marketing insights
- You love movies and TV
- You understand box office tracking metrics, streaming premiere dynamics, and TikTok/Reels culture intuitively
- You thrive in an environment where you have the autonomy to innovate quickly
- You want to test new AI-driven analytical ideas in the morning, iterate rapidly alongside leadership, and see your work deployed directly into client deliverables by the end of the week
- You catch subtle sentiment nuances, classification edge cases, and data inconsistencies before anyone else does
- You understand the "contract-to-hire" path of an agile, fast-scaling company and are excited about building a permanent home here as we expand
- Light Python, SQL, or automation experience (Zapier/Make) is a plus, though strong prompt literacy and analytical judgment come first
- Bonus points" if you are located near either of these areas (or the New York / Los Angeles entertainment corridors) for the occasional in-person strategy session
Benefits
- 100% remote (Candidates must be based in the US or Canada).
- This role begins as a contract position with a clear path to full-time employment and benefits as we finalize our internal infrastructure later this year.
- Occasional in-person strategy sessions may be available near Boston, MA, Jacksonville, FL, New York, or Los Angeles.
- There may be future opportunities for travel to New York, Los Angeles, or major film festivals as project needs evolve.
- Your professional growth is prioritized.
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