Vice President, Media Channels and Insights

USA MEDIA CHANNEL PERFORMANCE & STRATEGY
Develop and execute comprehensive media strategies for all US owned and operated media channels including social media, Red Bull TV, Red Bull Fast channels, and third-party media parties.
Drive audience growth, engagement, and retention across all channels through innovative content strategies and distribution approaches.
Establish and monitor KPIs for each channel, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
Identify new channel opportunities and emerging platforms that align with brand values and audience interests.
Optimize content programming and scheduling to maximize reach and engagement at the same time as growing core playgrounds that fuel Red Bull business strategies.
Ensure RBMN is reaching its key target demographics on our channels, whilst always being on brand and executing at a high quality.
Ensure RBMN teams, regional media network teams and the wider marketing organization are fully supported with education, tools, content formats and series, release calendars and best practices across all media channels to succeed.
Play a key role in the RBNA by guiding the company across the future state of media consumption, ensuring we are never “left behind” in progress of consumer trends and technology to help us achieve our goals in a way that is unique and distinctively Red Bull.
RED BULL SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS
Reach a wide and mainstream US audience at scale, showcases the variety of the brand, go viral but always at a high quality, be modern and cutting edge in content style, engage with our community, and create positive audience experiences that have the highest chance of being remembered. In short, strive to run the best branded social media channels in the world.
Play a central role in creating bespoke 16:9 content for the local US YouTube channels and Global YouTube channels that leads by example, guides regions closely and consistently through the year with best practices and useful analysis on this critical platform, including with practical support such as thumbnail creation.
Always be hyper data informed and run a best-in-class education service that educates the wider Red Bull organization on social media, along with practically curating and localizing a portfolio of content that can be easily activated by wider teams. The role of this team is not only to run the US channels, but to also uplevel the social media knowledge, ability, and impact of all Red Bull’s social channels as a whole.
REDBULL.COM
Leads a team that manages content published on the website, works with HQ teams on the development of the websites design and infrastructure, and drives the overall strategy and purpose of the US.
Ensures redbull.com is always an updated source of truth for the company, ranks highly on search, is data compliant, and provides value to the consumer across all the brand’s subjects - foremost with energy drinks but also events through information and ticketing, in-store consumer activations, stories, videos, etc.
Increasingly works towards providing value to the company’s ecommerce efforts, acting as a top of funnel driver to ecommerce platforms.
RED BULL TV
Leads the team that publishes content on the Red Bull TV app for the US version of the app, works with the development team on the app’s design and infrastructure, and drives the overall strategy and purpose of the Red Bull TV app. Ensures Red Bull TV provides high quality media experiences to the consumer, focusing on big screens and longer watch times that increases the chance of creating memory structures.
Primarily focused on serving audiences with deep fandom such as mountain biking and padel, using the app to drive brand attribution to this subject matter. Works closely with partnerships to create in-kind promotion for the app and generate reach for the brand on big screens.
RED BULL TV DISTRIBUTION
Work closely with Media partnerships and Media Production teams to choose the optimal content selection and distribution which is ‘pushed’ out to consumers at scale through third party channels and works closely with the partnerships team on driving our overall Red Bull TV distribution strategy. This content is usually prominently branded to drive brand attribution.
Linear/FAST distribution – This role oversees the team that programs the content on our linear/FAST channels which are seen on 3rd party channels such as TV operating systems (e.g. Samsung TV+, Roku) and TV providers. This team works very closely with partnerships to achieve high placement, in-kind promotion from partners, and to receive insights on content performance to continually improve the streams.
Shared viewing distribution – Oversees selection, preparation, editing, and syndication of Red Bull branded content that will be seen in on and off premise locations such as gyms, restaurants, bars, train stations, and realistically anywhere that a consumer is – creating something like a distributed OOH network for our media content.
RED BULL PROGRAMMING
Oversees the team that manages 360 programming PEMO guidelines and best practices which educate the organization and ensure consistency in our overall channel management approach.
Ensure all content release calendars along with its prioritization and related information are transparently available and accurate.
Assist with the creation of templates and systems which drive our overall media strategy, particularly with the ‘master project brief’ and on the BP process regarding the EMO targets and ultimate distribution strategy for our projects
Be “air traffic controllers” and internal consultants for innovation topics (A.I., spatial, AR and game engines, etc.) by ensuring the correct internal workflows are followed for all opportunities, and all opportunities are evaluated objectively on a risk and opportunity basis.
Have a ‘finger on the pulse’ of the media industry and drive internal knowledge and change, ensuring Red Bull is constantly at the forefront of how consumers use and consume media. Work closely with media partnerships and media production to ensure we are experimenting and innovating with the right companies, and that the right experiences are created always with the consumer’s branded experience as a priority.
US MEDIA INSIGHTS & ANALYTICS
Lead the media insights function to inform strategic decision-making across Red Bull Media network within Red Bull North America and into our US marketing counterparts projects.
Adopt and extend the global framework of measurement frameworks and analytics capabilities to track project and audience performance and ROI.
Transform data into actionable insights that drive content creation, content distribution, and commercial strategies.
Present regular performance reports and strategic recommendations to internal US key stakeholders.
Leads the discussion and planning on our PEMO dashboard and metrics and staying at the top-level view across the country to ensure we are pulling the right levers daily and monthly to be in front of competition.
US LEADERSHIP & TEAM DEVELOPMENT
Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams across and within the US social media, owned channels, programming and media insights functions.
This person is a natural influencer and educator – leading the team to optimal media resource management.
Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
Collaborate cross-functionally with content production, media partnerships, communications and creator marketing HOD’s and their teams.
Collaborate and educate the regional media and marketing teams.
COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCE
Partner with the VP of Media Partnerships to plan and drive audience and revenue growth through the optimal pipeline of content licensing, co-productions and other appropriate media strategies.
Partner with Media Partnerships, Media development and Media Production teams to co-create compelling creative and commercial propositions.
Optimize project cost structures while maintaining quality, performance and driving RBNA business priorities.
Partner with the VP of Media Partnerships in identifying and evaluating strategic partnerships that expand reach and create new revenue streams for the back book of RBMN content.
Collaborate and influence the global media network teams in driving outcomes for all.
Develop talent pipeline and succession planning for critical roles.
INNOVATION & INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP
Partner with the VP of Media Productions and Operations to stay ahead of media industry trends, platform developments, and consumer behavior shifts.
Champion the adoption of new technologies, formats, and distribution methods.
Build relationships with key platform partners, technology providers, and industry leaders – partner with Head of Creator Marketing and VP of Media Partnerships to map the industry and our approach.
15+ years of progressive experience in media, entertainment, or digital content industry experience.
10+ years of US market experience in senior leadership roles, leading people leaders.
Proven track record of scaling owned and operated media properties.
Deep expertise in digital media, social platforms, and content distribution strategies.
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Employment type
Full-time

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