Job Title:  Senior Director, Digital Insights

Summary of Position

Lionsgate is currently seeking a Senior Director of Digital Insights who will be responsible for driving social and earned media insights for the Motion Picture Group. This role will translate social conversation, sentiment, and marketplace signals into actionable insights that help shape marketing strategy, campaign optimization, and wider business decision-making.

Reporting to the SVP of Global Research & Digital Insights, the ideal candidate is intellectually curious, highly analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable balancing multiple complex projects in a fast-paced environment. 

Responsibilities

• Monitor real-time audience reactions, conversation trends, sentiment, and creative performance metrics across social platforms and other audience feedback sources to uncover insights that inform campaign strategy and tactics.
• Lead the development of reporting infrastructure and dashboards to monitor KPIs and evaluate campaign performance across a title’s lifecycle.  
• Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives and serve as a strategic advisor to senior marketing leadership by providing recommendations that influence campaign decisions, audience targeting, and messaging.
• Track industry trends, audience behavior, and platform dynamics to identify opportunities, risks, and strategic implications for upcoming film releases.
• Oversee relationships with vendors and agency partners, ensuring data integrity, methodological rigor, and cost efficiency.
• Work closely with counterparts in digital marketing, paid media, and marketing strategy to develop measurement frameworks and provide insights that inform business decisions.
• Manage the full project lifecycle for multiple concurrent initiatives, including defining timelines, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring deliverables meet business objectives.
• Manage and mentor the Associate Manager of Digital Insights, with a focus on growth, learning, analytical excellence, and professional development.
• Lead the team’s budget in partnership with the Associate Manager of Digital Insights and the Marketing Finance team, including vendor spend, renewals, and ongoing budget tracking.

Qualifications and Skills

• BS/BA required
• 8+ years of experience in analytics, insights, social listening, or other intelligence roles, preferably within the media and entertainment industry
• Strong proficiency with social listening and analytics tools (e.g., ListenFirst, Meltwater, Talkwalker, Netbase, Sprinklr)
• Experience with Boolean logic and social listening taxonomies
• Proven track record of using social media metrics to build benchmarks, measure ROI, and translate into clear strategic recommendations
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Highly collaborative, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient in spreadsheets and presentation tools; experience with BI and data visualization tools (e.g., Sigma, Tableau) and data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake) is a plus

Additional Requirements

This position requires five (5) days per week in office. 

About Lionsgate

Lionsgate (NYSE: LION) is one of the world’s leading standalone, pure play, publicly traded content companies. It brings together diversified motion picture and television production and distribution businesses, a world-class portfolio of valuable brands and franchises, a talent management and production powerhouse and a more than 20,000-title film and television library, all driven by the studio’s bold and entrepreneurial culture.

Business Unit Overview

Motion Picture Group
Lionsgate operates the largest independent motion picture company in the world. The home of such beloved franchises as John Wick, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Saw and Now You See Me, Lionsgate regularly releases 10-15 wide theatrical films each year, complemented by a slate of 40-50 multi-platform and direct-to-streaming titles. Thanks to an entrepreneurial structure, creative passion, and innovative marketing and distribution strategies, the studio is capable of not only making and extending franchises, but also delivering original successes like La La Land, Wonder, Knives Out, Monster’s Ball, Precious, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Jesus Revolution. The studio has generated nearly $15 billion in global box office and earned 335 Academy Award® nominations and 71 Oscar® wins.

Our Benefits

• Full Coverage – Medical, Vision, and Dental
• Work/Life Balance – generous sick days, vacation days, holidays, and Impact Day
• 401(k) company matching

Compensation

$165,000 - $175,000

EEO Statement

Lionsgate is an equal employment opportunity employer. All employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws. In addition, Lionsgate will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Lionsgate will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and federal law.