Description :

Grade Level: L3

Location: Islamabad

Last Date to Apply: 16 May 2025

What is Manager Digital Content

As Manager Digital Content, you will drive the growth of Tamasha by managing the end-to-end content lifecycle, from identifying and sourcing content, negotiating commercial terms, managing content budgets, and closing contracts, to ensuring timely and cost-effective onboarding of content.

 This role plays a key part in shaping Tamasha’s content offering by aligning acquisitions with user demand, platform strategy, and business objectives. You will act as the voice of the user, partner with local and international content aggregators, and ensure every content acquisition contributes to user engagement, retention, and revenue goals.

You will report directly to the Stream Head Content

What does Manager Digital Content do?

• Prepare and present business cases for major content investments to internal stakeholders.
• Lead sourcing of content across genres including sports, entertainment, news, and originals based on platform strategy and audience insights.
• Own end-to-end content acquisition cycle including pitch evaluation, negotiations, budgeting, contracting, and onboarding.
• Develop strong relationships with production houses, TV Channels, Content aggregators, and independent creators.
• Analyze content performance, user data, and competitor benchmarks to guide acquisition priorities and renewals.
• Collaborate with Finance procurement, and legal teams to ensure smooth execution of content partnerships. Support contract negotiations including exclusivity, windowing, rights, and KPIs.
• Coordinate with finance teams to process timely payments to content partners, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and alignment with contractual terms.
• Drive localized content acquisition based on regional demand signals and trends.
• Maintain and track content acquisition budget, ensuring cost-effectiveness and ROI-positive deals.
• Ensure all acquired content meets platform standards and regulatory compliance, and coordinate with product, technology, and partner teams to ensure timely ingestion, QA, and availability of content on the platform.
• Evaluate new content formats (short-form, UGC, AVOD/SVOD) and acquisition models to expand Tamasha’s catalog.
• Assist in creating a forward-looking content calendar aligned with platform events, user growth campaigns, and monetization plans.
• Optimize rights management by ensuring timely renewals and proactive management of expiring licenses.

Requirements

What are we looking for and what does it require to be Manager Digital Content?

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Media, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of experience in content acquisition, media rights negotiation, or content operations preferably in OTT, media, or entertainment.
• Prior experience managing large content budgets and partner portfolios.

Technical & Functional Skills

• Strong understanding of content licensing models (rev share, minimum guarantees, flat fee, etc.)
• Familiarity with local and international entertainment/media ecosystems.
• Strong knowledge of content performance metrics (watch time, MAU, DAUs, CPMs, retention curves, etc.).
• Sound understanding of legal and regulatory frameworks related to content distribution.
• Proficient in Excel, data analysis tools, and contract management platforms.

Behavioral Competencies

• Excellent negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Data-driven mindset with ability to convert insights into content decisions.
• Attention to detail, ownership mindset, and ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
• Flexible, proactive, and eager to innovate in a fast-evolving content landscape.

Benefits

Why Join Jazz?

As one of the leading employers in the country, Jazz epitomizes the philosophy that each Jazz employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle, and continuous learning and development.

Our core values include qualities essential for a positive organizational culture - truthfully guiding entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, harnessing professional and interpersonal collaboration, and fostering across-the-board customer-obsession.

As one of the largest private sector organizations in Pakistan, our objective is to continue to change the lives of our 70 million customers for the better. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of something transformative, someone who can play a critical role in driving our success. Together, we can empower millions more with the tools necessary to progress in an increasingly digital economy.