Entertainment Data & AI Operations Specialist

Entertainment Data & AI Operations Specialist — Harpoon Media

The Role

Harpoon Media is an innovative creator agency built for a video-first generation, operating at the leading edge of entertainment marketing. We are scaling rapidly and looking for an Entertainment Data & AI Operations Specialist to work directly with our leadership team to help pioneer how theatrical releases and streaming series measure audience impact.

This isn't a role for someone who wants to sit back and update static legacy dashboards; you will be in the trenches working directly alongside technical leadership inside frontier AI environments (primarily Claude). You’ll be supported and directed by the team, but we need someone who can take raw social conversation, run prompt evaluations, build actionable intelligence, and translate those insights directly into client-facing presentations that major film studios and streaming networks crave. As the company grows, this role has the potential to evolve alongside us.

Location, Travel & Compensation

● Location: 100% Remote (Candidates must be based in the US or Canada).

● The Anchor Points: Our co-founders are based in Boston, MA and Jacksonville, FL. While the role is remote, "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.

● Travel: While primarily remote, there may be future opportunities for travel to New York, Los Angeles, or major film festivals as project needs evolve.

● Compensation: $50,000 – $80,000 USD (commensurate with experience).

● Structure: 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.

Key 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.

Technical Skillset

● AI-Native Power User: 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.

● Master of Campaign Data: High proficiency in Google Sheets/Excel for data structuring, pivot analysis, and reporting hygiene. Familiarity with Airtable or Notion databases is a strong plus.

● Presentation & Design: Experience using Google Slides, Canva, or Keynote to craft compelling, narrative-driven decks, with the ability to confidently speak to data in client meetings.

● Data & Scripting Aptitude: A major or background in Data Analytics, Statistics, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field. Light Python, SQL, or automation experience (Zapier/Make) is a plus, though strong prompt literacy and analytical judgment come first.

The Ideal Candidate

● 2+ Years of Direct Experience (Required): 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.

● Client-Facing Presence & Communication: You are comfortable presenting data narratives to external partners, answering client questions on performance methodology, and translating technical AI metrics into clear marketing insights.

● Entertainment & Social Fluency: You love movies and TV. You understand box office tracking metrics, streaming premiere dynamics, and TikTok/Reels culture intuitively.

● High-Velocity Builder Mindset: 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.

● Relentless Attention to Detail: You catch subtle sentiment nuances, classification edge cases, and data inconsistencies before anyone else does.

● Comfortable with Growth: 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.

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Why Harpoon Media?

At Harpoon Media, we aren’t just another agency; we are operating at the intersection of the creator economy and film and TV marketing. We pride ourselves on being a results-oriented team, where innovation is expected and agility is our greatest strength. Working here means joining a fast-growing, early-stage company and helping us build something special. If you are looking for a role where your contributions are visible, your professional growth is prioritized, and your work shapes the future of digital influence, Harpoon Media is where you belong.