Sr. Data Operations Analyst

About the role

Freelance position based in Los Angeles, CA (preferred) with consideration for New York, NY. The role supports a centralized content and campaign planning platform for a media and entertainment client, ensuring accurate, reliable, and timely planning data by gathering stakeholder updates, validating information, and translating unstructured inputs into organized records and actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Attend recurring stakeholder meetings and capture key decisions, updates, action items, risks, and open questions.
• Convert meeting discussions, documents, and stakeholder inputs into structured, reliable data.
• Validate data with appropriate business owners before updating planning records.
• Maintain accurate records within established service-level expectations and data-quality standards.
• Identify stale information, conflicting inputs, missing details, and workflow gaps; escalate issues as needed.
• Manage requests from senior stakeholders, determining which updates can be completed directly and which require confirmation.
• Prepare clear weekly status updates, including priorities, risks, outstanding decisions, and data-health observations.
• Maintain confidentiality when working with embargoed projects, internal timelines, campaign plans, and other sensitive information.
• Document recurring process challenges and recommend practical improvements to workflows, tools, and data governance.
• Support the evolution of low-code workflow solutions used for campaign and content planning.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data analysis, business operations, internal research, reporting, project coordination, or a related field.
• Experience in the media or entertainment industry, including familiarity with content portfolios, production or release timelines, campaign planning, or title-level data.
• Demonstrated ability to transform unstructured information from meetings, conversations, and documents into accurate, organized data.
• Advanced proficiency with Excel and Google Sheets, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and data-quality checks.
• Experience using low-code or no-code tools and relational data concepts, including tables, linked records, formulas, filters, and views.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to work effectively with senior leaders and reconcile competing inputs.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to produce concise notes, clear status updates, and actionable escalations.
• Proven ability to handle confidential, sensitive, or pre-release information with sound judgment and discretion.
• Highly proactive, adaptable, and comfortable operating in an evolving environment with changing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Airtable, including formulas, views, interfaces, and workflow design.
• Experience with tools such as Asana, Smartsheet, Monday.com, or similar workflow-management platforms.
• Background supporting marketing operations, creative operations, media planning, campaign planning, or content operations.
• Experience facilitating meetings, presenting data, or communicating recommendations to senior stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like

• Planning data remains accurate, current, and trusted by cross-functional stakeholders.
• Conflicts, stale records, and missing information are identified early and resolved efficiently.
• Stakeholders have clear visibility into campaign, content, and operational updates.
• Process improvements reduce manual effort and strengthen long-term data quality.

Schedule

Full-time, standard business hours in the local time zone.