Paramount Pictures Hiring For VP Measurement Quality Assurance at New York City, NY Full Time

OVERVIEW & RESPONSIBILITIES
Data plays a central role at Paramount Streaming, and as part of the Data & Insights Group (DIG), our Measurement Operations (MOPS) team plays a crucial part in the success of our streaming products. It drives business, product, and operational decisions by providing rich data, strategic insights and analytical products. We are looking for a Vice President of Measurement Quality Assurance for Paramount Streaming who is passionate about QA, data, and entertainment, and who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

• Lead a team of QA Engineering people leaders responsible for validation of analytics data collection across multiple platforms’ collection via production engineering processes
• Build and maintain accountability and clarity with analytics data collaborators
• Develop and adhere to objectives and key results around data quality 
• Lead all aspects of team responsible for growth and adoption of automated QA tools and frameworks
• Lead support to intensify and triage data quality issues across the streaming organization while keeping business partners informed with resolution plans, root cause analyses and impact
• Serve as a subject-matter-expert and delegator for analytics QA engineering people leaders
• Operate with a strong results orientation emphasizing the importance of efficiency and productivity and prioritizing the highest-value work on the team
• Coordinate the enablement of credible data used to generate insights and decisions around our content, products and audiences
• Be responsible for the analytics QA roadmap while ensuring high quality QA engineering processes and scalability across all practices
• Lead the creation of team workflows and processes necessary to meet timelines without sacrificing quality
• Cultivate collaboration, engagement, and performance both within Measurement Operations and with our internal partners and external vendors
• Establish a vision and lead the growth and evolution of our QA capabilities and services
• Develop the tools, reporting and infrastructure for an extraordinary quality assurance program
• Build an innovative and well-adapted team culture that builds trust, encourages collaborations, maintains strong accountability, delivers results, increases employee engagement, and has fun

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in technical or quantitative oriented field
• 12+ years of experience in QA, analytics, management consulting, business operations, or other analogous field
• 8+ years of experience managing a team; a track record of managerial expertise in growing & developing high-functioning teams 
• In-depth knowledge of analytics data and standard methodologies with ability to communicate the impact of defects
• Superb communication skills for both horizontal and vertical organizational lines
• Good skills and knowledge of leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing visibility
• Experience in mentorship with providing education to lesser tenured team contributors
• Deep understanding of agile development methodologies and ability to tailor them to a specific situation
• Ability to objectively assess performance of direct reports.
• Ability to make effective hiring decisions that add new value to the team
• Experience running vendor and facility contracts
• Demonstrated initiative to keep abreast of technology advancements
• Experience leading technology architecture for data assets across multiple sites and internal/external resources
• Ability to make decisions in QA tooling selection and implementation approach based on long-term strategic objectives, while taking into consideration short-term implications for ongoing or planned implementations
• In-depth knowledge of software development technology, principles, methods, tools, and practices and industry standards and trends
• Demonstrated ability to work with leaders and peers to evaluate new ideas, discuss business and product concepts, implement new features and systems, and make tradeoffs to remove roadblocks
• Experience with rapid scaling of quality assurance teams by hiring and retaining perspicacious talent
• Demonstrated experience of promoting culture and diversity throughout an organization to achieve transformational change
• Track record of success in building and scaling a QA team
• Executive experience with vision, credibility, leadership skills and charisma
• Demonstrable ability to grow and lead a department is a must

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters’ degree or PhD in a technical or quantitative oriented field

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Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world’s biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the U.S. in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming’s other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $176,800.00 – 250,000.00. 

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.  The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable,  as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.  

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Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

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