Manager – Business Operations
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of experience with an MBA or 5 years with a bachelor's degree in strategy/corporate development, strategic planning, business operations, operations, or a similar role within the media and entertainment industry.
- A proven track record of identifying and developing successful business strategies that drive growth and profitability.
- Experience communicating with executive teams, executing projects for senior leadership, and managing a varied set of stakeholders.
- Experience translating strategic plans into actionable initiatives.
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- A demonstrated history of intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness.
- The ability to translate complex strategic, financial, and operational information into clear, compelling communications.
- The ability to translate complicated financial, contractual, strategic, or operational details into relevant, digestible outputs.
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
- A deep understanding of the media and entertainment industry and its various business lines.
- Partner with senior Business Operations executives to identify strategic opportunities, build business cases for growth opportunities, and outline execution plans across the company's core businesses, ensuring alignment with its overall vision and objectives.
- Identify growth opportunities based on industry, peer, and company strategic initiative knowledge; conduct research and provide recommendations.
- Collaborate with company and divisional leadership to evaluate existing plans and performance against marketplace opportunities.
- Build detailed execution plans for new projects, using project management skills to coordinate teams, track deliverables, and measure outcomes.
- Drive projects from divisional and executive leadership in support of company and divisional goals.
- Support evaluation and implementation of sourcing, deal-making, financing, development, production/execution, and monetization strategies aligned with existing capabilities and resources, or make the case for adding new capabilities and resources.
- Build financial and business cases and plans for new initiatives, including revenue projections, cost analysis, and risk assessments.
- Collaborate with creative, business, operating, and financial stakeholders to identify risks and opportunities related to initiatives and their execution.
- Conduct in-depth market assessments to identify growth opportunities, competitive dynamics, and emerging trends in the media and entertainment industry.
- Collect market intelligence and performance data to promote critical thinking and curiosity.
- Analyze audience behavior, content consumption patterns, and technological advancements across company businesses to inform decision-making.
- Develop as a creative thinker, operational leader, and driver of collaboration within the organization and broader industry.
- Continue improving communication skills; lead initiatives, manage senior stakeholders, and support complex collaboration models.
- Build an internal network and broad knowledge of the industry.
- Demonstrate intentionality, innovation, and information sharing to foster collaboration and coordination across the company.
- Learn how the company's businesses work, including first- and second-order influences.
- Model continuous improvement and accountability while maintaining humility, vulnerability, and rigor.
- Work with corporate and business teams to streamline operational processes without implying uniformity across creative teams, processes, or outcomes.
- Outline, draft, revise, and deliver material communications to the team, executive leadership, corporate and operating colleagues, and external stakeholders.
- Communicate progress, challenges, and opportunities to ensure organizational alignment and support.
- An MBA or advanced degree.
- Media experience and/or consulting experience.
About the company
Sony Pictures Entertainment creates, acquires, and distributes motion pictures and television programming on a global scale. It develops IP through film and TV production, owns networks, and distributes content across theatrical, home entertainment, TV licensing, and digital channels. It differs from competitors by maintaining vertical integration—from content creation to distribution and ownership of networks—and by leveraging a large, diverse IP library and worldwide studio footprint. Its goal is to maximize the value of its intellectual property by producing and distributing content across multiple platforms and exploring new technologies and services.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$1M
Headquarters
Culver City, California
Founded
1991
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- January 15, 2026 Netflix deal gives SPE Pay-1 access worldwide by early 2029.
- September 2026 live-TV launch on PS5 and BRAVIA monetizes Sony’s content ecosystem.
- Sony acquired Peanuts equity and September 2026 The Surgeon, expanding libraries and pipelines.
What critics are saying
- April 2026 layoffs cut hundreds across film, TV, and corporate, signaling structural weakness.
- Sony remains dangerously dependent on Spider-Man, while 24 Jump Street opens against Secret Wars.
- Video-game adaptation bets like Battlefield and Helldivers face delays, recasts, and unproven theatrical demand.
What makes Sony Pictures Entertainment unique
- Sony controls Spider-Man film rights and shares Marvel’s biggest box-office engine with Disney.
- Sony Pictures Television and Crunchyroll fuse IP, streaming, anime, and consumer licensing.
- Sony Pictures Classics keeps prestige distribution active, winning 2026 festival acquisitions.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Holidays
Remote Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
Professional Development Budget
Conference Attendance Budget
Wellness Program
Mental Health Support
Gym Membership
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
-5%1 year growth
-5%2 year growth
0%Sony reveals historic 4-Movie Spider-Man collection for Tom Holland's MCU hero. Three months after Spider-Man: Brand New Day's release, Sony has unveiled its first four-movie Spidey collection. Sony released its first-ever Spider-Man movie in 2002, the opening entry of Sam Raimi's Spidey trilogy. However, 2026 marks the first time the studio has put together a four-movie collection for the web-slinger. As the name implies, the format bundles four films into a single package, and Sony has given the treatment to a good number of its franchises. The Karate Kid, Hotel Transylvania, and Ghostbusters are all among the iconic Sony properties to receive it, and it's now Spidey's turn. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment unveiled the four-film collection amid the October 6 Premium Video on Demand release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Tom Holland's fourth MCU Spider-Man movie. The bundle packs all four of Holland's solo outings, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, into a single Blu-ray box set with digital copies. The four-disc set arrives Tuesday, December 15, the same day Brand New Day makes its physical media debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD, after an extended theatrical window pushed the disc back about a month from its original mid-November slot. Preorders are live at Amazon, Walmart, and other retailers, with Walmart pricing it at $71.22. The cover image features Holland's wall-crawler in his Spidey suit, unmasked. Collectors can also spring for a Limited Collector's Edition 4K SteelBook, which packs in a magnetic lenticular cover, physical reproductions of Peter's handwritten letter to MJ and MJ's drawing, and an exclusive tie-in comic. The set follows Sony's earlier Spider-Man 3-Movie Collection from April 2022, which bundled the first three Holland films. The new package updates that one with the record-breaking fourth chapter. The Brand New Day disc comes loaded with bonus content. Featurettes include "Tom Holland: The Evolving Spider," "Brand New Direction" with director Destin Daniel Cretton, "Peter and The Punisher" with Jon Bernthal, and "Webs, Wires and Runaway Tanks," which spotlights the film's practical stunt work under coordinator Peng Zhang. Other extras dive into the redesigned Spider-Suit, hidden Easter eggs, and behind-the-scenes camera roll footage from the set, with the digital edition including 11 bonus features in total, including the "Outtakes: Goofs, Gaffes and Gags" reel. This four-film set should prove lucrative for Sony given how well Brand New Day has performed. The film delivered a staggering $360 million in its domestic opening weekend, the biggest in box office history, and has reportedly gone on to rake in $2.5 billion worldwide, ranking as the third highest-grossing film of all time behind only Avatar and Avengers: Endgame. Many comic book movie aficionados will want this historic Marvel quadrilogy on their shelves. Spider-Man joins a long line of Marvel movie collections. Sony's Spider-Man set joins a growing lineup of franchise-spanning Marvel collections. The Avengers: 4-Movie Collection bundles The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame on Blu-ray with digital copies, and a limited 4K SteelBook edition of that set landed as a Best Buy exclusive. Marvel Studios also released the Captain America: 4-Movie Collection in 2025 alongside Captain America: Brave New World's home debut. That set arrived on digital April 15, 2025, and on Blu-ray and DVD May 13, 2025, packing The First Avenger, The Winter Soldier, Civil War, and Brave New World into 526 minutes of star-spangled action. The Thor: 4-Movie Collection rounds out the group, collecting Chris Hemsworth's four solo films from Thor through Thor: Love and Thunder on Blu-ray and as a 4K digital bundle. Beyond the four-film sets, Marvel's smaller collections have kept collectors busy. In 2023, the studio released a three-movie set for James Gunn's acclaimed Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, collecting Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3. That same year, Marvel gave similar treatment to its Black Panther franchise with a two-movie collection. That set paired Black Panther with its sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which served as a tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman, who died in 2020 before the sequel's release. Spider-Man joining this stellar list of Marvel collections gives Sony one of the most enviable bundle offerings in comic book movie home entertainment. It gives fans the option to own their favorite Marvel films in a more convenient way, which is essential at a time when physical media has become more important than ever.
Sony Pictures names YouTube's Fede Goldenberg Head of Screen Gems as label pivots to digital creators. Ashley Brucks, president of the label since 2023, will transition to a producing role October 9, 2026 @ 11:30 AM YouTube veteran Fede Goldenberg has been named Head of Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) today announced Friday. Under a new creative strategy, the film label will expand its longstanding focus on traditional genre films to include theatrical projects from the next generation of digital-native storytellers. Ashley Brucks, president of the label since 2023, will transition to a producing role. "Some of the most exciting new filmmakers and ideas are emerging from creators outside of traditional Hollywood development pipelines. Screen Gems has long been a home for distinctive genre storytelling, and we see tremendous potential in expanding that vision to include a new generation of digital-native creators with theatrical ambitions," Sanford Panitch, President of Sony Pictures' Motion Picture Group, said in a statement. "Fede has spent his career at the intersection of online creators and entertainment, and he is uniquely suited to build those relationships and help translate great storytelling from digital platforms to the big screen. thewrap is also thrilled that Ashley will continue her relationship with the studio as a producer on several films, bringing her expertise and distinctive genre taste to all the labels. Already have an account?
Rivian is going full 'Ghostbusters' for Halloween. Emmet White Thu, October 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM PDT Fall is rapidly descending upon much of the Northern Hemisphere, and Rivian is preparing to celebrate spooky season with a new Ghostbusters collaboration. Rivian has historically dressed its vehicles up for Halloween, and the California-based EV startup is calling in reinforcements this year. Rivian, in collaboration with Sony Pictures, is bringing the Ghostbusters universe to all its vehicles from October 9 through November 2, 2026. Thanks to an over-the-air update, Rivians will now feature a limited-time "Halloween Mode" with the sounds, lights, and Easter eggs from the Ghostbusters universe. Halloween Mode will transform your driver display by adding custom lights and sounds, custom lock sounds, a scavenger hunt feature, and a "'Mallow Mash" mode where the center screen pops Mini-Pufts marshmallow men against the clock while parked. Custom exterior LED sequences include "Ecto-1," "Proton Pack," "Slimer," "Ghost Trap," or "Peter Venkman," paired with accompanying soundscapes that can be motion-activated. Rivian is even including a Scavenger Hunt inside the infotainment that sends you hunting for hidden characters tucked inside familiar screens. Back seat passengers aren't left out of the fun, either; "Trick or Treat Mode" takes over front and rear infotainment screens with the Ghostbusters theme song and matching lights. To properly commemorate the Ghostbusters, Bill Murray teamed up with Rivian for a commercial spot. Working with director Gil Kenan, co-writer of Ghostbusters: Afterlife and director/co-writer of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Rivian's commercial features Murray arriving at the scene of a spooky house overrun by a ghost and neutralizing the threat with a Rivian R1-mounted weapon. Murray even slicks his hair back with the gunky remnants of the ghost. Intrepid fans will notice the Rivian R1S featured in the commercial is not a typical model. To round out the Ghostbusters homage, Rivian built a special-edition R1S, named - of course - the Ecto-R1. This Rivian features 22-inch aero wheels with a chrome-like finish, a signature red graphic, and the "No-Ghost" logo painted on the hood and front doors. A custom roof rack with sirens, spotlights, a radar dish, and side tanks mirror the original film car. (The custom roof rack frame and accessory housings were built in-house by Rivian's Special Projects team.) To access these features, your Rivian and mobile app must be updated to the latest software (for the R2, that's version 2026.36.40; for the R1, it's version 2026.36.0). A prompt will then appear on your driver display asking if you'd like to "hunt some ghosts," launching the Ghostbusters app. Rivian retail spaces in Laguna Beach, Austin, Venice, Miami, San Francisco, and New York City will also throw celebrations to commemorate the feature.
Big Shot Pictures lands exclusive feature film rights to CookieRun, bringing devsisters billion dollar global gaming phenomenon to the big screen. The film is targeting a 2029 global release, aligning with CookieRun's 20th anniversary as the franchise grows well beyond its mobile roots Los Angeles, October 8, 2026 - Big Shot Pictures, the next-generation family entertainment company founded by Brian Robbins, announced today that it has optioned the cinematic rights to adapt CookieRun, the South Korean hit gaming franchise with over 300 million downloads, into a feature-length film, in partnership with Devsisters, the IP's creator and owner. The partnership is designed to translate the games' rich, character-driven storytelling into an expansive cinematic experience for global audiences, with Big Shot Pictures leading the production process and Devsisters, the original creator of CookieRun, working closely with Big Shot to shape the film's core creative direction. The film is targeting a 2029 global release, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the franchise's original game, OvenBreak. Launched by Devsisters in South Korea in 2009 and inspired by the folk tale The Gingerbread Man, CookieRun follows Cookies who escape the witch's oven that brought them to life. It has since grown into a global entertainment brand spanning flagship games CookieRun: Kingdom, CookieRun: OvenBreak, and CookieRun: Crumble, plus the CookieRun: Braverse trading card game, alongside merchandise and live experiences. The U.S. is the franchise's top market, accounting for 65% of global merchandise sales in 2025. In addition, CookieRun: Kingdom was named one of YouTube's Top 10 U.S. trending topics in 2025, the only standalone game on the list. "We are thrilled to bring a phenomenon as beloved as CookieRun to the big screen," said Brian Robbins, CEO of Big Shot Pictures. "Expanding this vibrant world beyond mobile screens into cinema allows us to connect with millions of existing fans while introducing the franchise to new global audiences. Big Shot's expertise in digital-first storytelling and short-form engagement uniquely suits us to amplify the massive online conversation already surrounding these characters." "CookieRun began as a mobile game and has since expanded into new territory, from merchandise and trading cards to live events," said Kilhyeon Cho, CEO of Devsisters. "At the center of it all is a richly imagined dessert world, home to Cookies who break out of the oven to choose their own fate. Bringing that world to the big screen expands the CookieRun experience in a way no other medium can. We hope it gives longtime fans a new way to meet the characters they've grown up with, and newcomers a message of courage that stays with them. With Big Shot as our partner, we're excited to share this world with audiences everywhere." This deal represents Big Shot's focused strategy of assembling slate built around iconic IP and creators with deep, loyal global audiences. In addition to acquiring the Eloise franchise and recently acquiring a 25% stake in Alvin and the Chipmunks through a landmark joint venture with Bagdasarian Productions - with a theatrical film in 2028, the company is in pre-production on an anime series with global streaming phenomenon IShowSpeed, written and produced by One Piece showrunner Matt Owens. They also have a strategic partnership with YouTube sensation Adley McBride (A for Adley) and Spacestation, and short-form series and film with creators, The Bucket List Family. Big Shot has a first-look theatrical distribution deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment. About Big Shot Pictures Big Shot Pictures is a next generation family entertainment company founded by Brian Robbins that produces the franchises of tomorrow. With a distinctive digital-first approach, the company builds global kids franchises across all platforms - from digital to theatrical, gaming to streaming, and consumer products to experiences. Big Shot has a first-look theatrical distribution deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment and is backed by strategic investment from Greycroft, Sony Pictures, MarcyPen Capital Partners, ValueAct Capital, and CAA. About Devsisters Since its foundation in 2007, Devsisters has built the globally beloved CookieRun universe, enjoyed by more than 350 million players worldwide. The series began with OvenBreak in 2009 and expanded with CookieRun for Kakao (2013), Line CookieRun (2014), and the RPG CookieRun: Kingdom (2021), CookieRun: OvenSmash (2026), and CookieRun: Crumble (2026). The franchise has generated over $1 billion in lifetime revenue. Devsisters continues to broaden the IP with new genres, including the trading card game CookieRun: Braverse TCG, the puzzle adventure Witch's Castle, and the 3D co-op game Tower of Adventures. Learn more at devsisters.com. View as Markdown | Plain text for AI & developer tools
Crunchyroll Storyworks creates a new path from anime to live action. Sony Pictures' latest division is designed to connect Japanese creators, rights holders and global film and television production. Summary. Sony launched Crunchyroll Storyworks for original anime and live-action adaptations. Led by Tohru Iokibe, it prioritizes creator visions and high quality. Storyworks partners with production venture HAYATE to accelerate global releases. Sony Pictures Entertainment has launched Crunchyroll Storyworks, a new division designed to develop anime and live-action adaptations in closer collaboration with Japan's creative industry. Announced by Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Ravi Ahuja during the inaugural Crunchyroll Anime Future Forum in New York, the unit will operate within Crunchyroll's content group and work in both directions: adapting stories from around the world into anime while developing Japanese anime properties for live-action film and television. Central to the initiative is an emphasis on working directly with Japanese creators and rights holders, with Sony positioning Storyworks as a creative bridge intended to preserve the identity and intent of original works as they move between mediums and audiences. The groundwork for this creative expansion was laid in March 2025 with the formation of HAYATE, a Tokyo-based production joint venture co-founded by Aniplex and Crunchyroll. Originally established to fuse Aniplex's industry-leading production expertise with Crunchyroll's massive global distribution network, HAYATE will now work in tandem with the newly minted Storyworks division. Crunchyroll Storyworks will serve as the developmental engine, identifying, planning, and accelerating projects before passing them over to HAYATE and its partner Japanese studios for physical production. At the time of writing, no specific titles under the Crunchyroll Storyworks banner have been announced yet.