Newsbreak
Head of Content & Supply
Mountain View, California, United States. Posted a month ago
The role
You will own the content supply strategy for ReelBee, an open short-drama distribution platform. You will manage supplier relationships, define selection criteria, and lead content acquisition and operations.
What you will do
- Own the content supply strategy across PGC and UGC
- Define selection criteria and the content tagging taxonomy
- Co-build a title-selection system with the data team
- Build and manage 50+ supplier and rights-holder relationships
- Lead acquisition negotiations, contracts, and launch
- Design a creator fund, partnership models, and revenue-share rules
- Track US, China, and global charts and audience trends
- Partner with Growth on scaling strategy for winning titles
- Hire and lead content operations, supplier BD, and creator relations
Required qualifications
- 5+ years in short drama, web fiction or digital video
- 2+ years in content acquisition, distribution or content strategy at an overseas short-drama platform or a leading Chinese platform
- Established China-side supply network with existing relationships with studios, AI studios or rights holders
- Verifiable hit judgment with data to show performance
- Data-driven with comfort in completion, conversion and per-title ROI
- Strong negotiation and deal-structuring skills across buyout, MG and rev-share models
- Professional fluency in English and Mandarin
- Ability to read US audience data and feedback
- Belief in the open-platform model
Nice to have
- Creator fund / creator program / MCN experience
- Familiarity with AI short-drama production and the leading AI studios
- Ability to judge AI-drama quality and cost
- Ties to US film schools, independent production or writer communities
- TikTok/YouTube short-drama channel or revenue-share operations experience
- 2+ years managing a team
- Deep familiarity with US mainstream audience tastes and cultural context
About the company
NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. It includes the NewsBreak platform, Nearby AI, and NDot AI.