Analyst, Yield & Optimization

Vevo is the world's leading music video network, connecting an ever-growing global audience to high quality music video content for more than a decade. Founded by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in 2009, Vevo offers fans worldwide a vast array of premium content to choose from, showcasing official music videos alongside a constantly developing lineup of live performances and innovative original programming. From top superstars to rising new talents, Vevo brings incomparable cross-promotional support to artists across the musical spectrum, at every stage of their careers.

Vevo has consistently evolved over the past decade to lead within today's ever-changing media landscape, embracing partnerships with a number of leading distribution platforms to deliver extraordinary content within ad-supported environments. With more than 25B views across television, desktop and mobile devices each month, Vevo brings music videos to the world – when, where, and how fans want them.  

We’re looking for a Yield & Optimization Analyst to join our tight-knit Revenue Operations team. This role reports to the Director of Inventory and will focus on optimizing inventory and supporting high-impact, first-to-market digital media products.

As the gatekeeper of our evolving inventory landscape, you'll work to maximize revenue through data-driven analysis and strategic recommendations. You’ll collaborate closely with Sales and other Rev Ops functions like Campaign Management and Pricing & Planning.

This is a great opportunity to contribute to a top publisher, influence product development, and help shape how we approach forecasting and inventory strategy. If you’re analytical, curious, and excited about working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment — we’d love to have you on the team!

This is a full-time position and is based at our office in New York City . 

• Work with management on assessing Vevo’s CTV inventory landscape for budgeting purposes and maximum revenue potential
• Manage delivery of campaigns to various endpoints & ad servers to deliver maximum Yield and/or support revenue objectives  
• Support Yield Management across all Vevo endpoints on a campaign by campaign basis  
• Support the Programmatic team with insights & performance metrics to facilitate management of relationships with SSPs & technology partners  
• Utilize several data sources to analyze performance & revenue opportunities for Programmatic & Direct sales in our CTV environment  
• Report on key inventory trends that may affect pricing of packages and sell through and provide solutions on how to best optimize such inventory
• Identify opportunities and implement solutions that increase the effectiveness and efficiencies of Vevo’s operations – including the development of tools, process and reports
• Work with the Pricing & Planning team identify and track key metrics in order to inform our general go to market strategy & Programmatic pricing strategy 
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Programmatic Sales, Ad Tech, Ad Operations & Data Science to achieve revenue objectives  

• You love to collaborate - taking your analysis and working with various teams to put it into action  
• You enjoy making a discovery; formulating your ideas and presenting next steps to management 
• You have an appreciation for the details, and how they can connect to the larger picture 
• You are intrigued by a dynamic, flexible digital inventory environment and its revenue potential 
• You have experience taking fun seriously; and cheering up your teammates when they need some positive encouragement; you naturally understand that work isn’t work when you love what you do

• At least 1 year of Inventory, Yield or Pricing & Planning experience in the digital media industry
• Proficient in Excel & Powerpoint
• Working knowledge of Freewheel & Google Ad Manager preferred
• Experience working with dynamic digital products such as: Programmatic Guaranteed, Private Marketplace & Open Auction 

• We're a fun, energetic, and tight knit team 
• We really enjoy music and technology
• We have excellent compensation and benefits packages  
• We have premier access to music content and new releases of original media content
• We offer a 401k match

The pay for this position is: $65,000 per year. Please note that the foregoing compensation information is a good-faith assessment associated with this position only and is provided pursuant to the New York City Transparency Law.

This is a full-time position based on-site/in our NYC headquarters. Vevo currently operates in a hybrid work model and requires all employees, who have not been designated as "remote" to be in the office/studio a minimum of 3 days a week.

Vevo considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected status under local, state, or federal law.