Industry Relations Specialist

Job Title: Specialist, Industry Relations
Location: 5808 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Compensation: $60.00/hr
Details: 6 month contract (W-2 and benefits eligible)
 
Broad Overview
We foster a high-performance environment where individuals are trusted to make decisions and are expected to act in the best interest of the company. We value creativity, innovation, direct communication, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. We encourage taking smart risks, embracing curiosity, and continuously raising the bar. We look for team members who are self-motivated, highly accountable, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and are passionate about making an impact through their work.

The Role
This role supports engagement strategy and execution within the Industry Relations & Partnerships team, contributing to Creative Innovation, Sustainability, MPS, and other teams/initiatives. It supports vendor and technology partner promotional programs across UCAN & LATAM, and liaises with EMEA and APAC regional POCs to ensure global alignment. The role produces and project-manages our Editorial arm, overseeing asset creation, strategy input, and rollout execution. It coordinates across Comms, Legal, Policy, and title teams to help align strategic narratives with Content Operations & Innovation initiatives. Additionally, it helps shape messaging, supports relationships with technology partners, vendors, and BTL talent as brand advocates, and helps ensure a unified presence at industry events and awards.

Position Overview:
The team is seeking a detail-oriented, proactive contributor capable of executing across diverse marketing and industry relations workstreams. This role requires the ability to juggle multiple projects at once, ensuring all deliverables meet a high standard of quality while aligning with evolving strategies, deadlines, budgets, and regional sensitivities. A key component of this position is the ability to communicate clearly and adapt messaging for different audiences across the organization.

You'll work closely with a small, tight-knit team — including a coordinator and a dedicated editorial resource — while coordinating with peer regional POCs in EMEA/APAC and a wide network of cross-functional stakeholders across Comms, Legal, Policy, and title teams. The team operates with a high degree of autonomy but tight alignment, moving quickly across shifting priorities and multiple concurrent portfolios. You will report to the Manager, Industry Relations & Partnerships, supporting them in executing and updating memos and strategies, managing your own workstreams, and helping coordinate resourcing for the editorial workstream. You will be expected to be a reliable resource to your immediate team as well as to cross-functional partners across the organization.
 
Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with global internal stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external production, post, and VFX vendors to support marketing and communication initiatives aligned with broader company objectives.
• Help execute go-to-market strategies and key messaging for global initiatives, including Media Production Suite, the Unified Partner Program, and other strategic programs.
• Support project coordination across multiple workstreams to help ensure strategic alignment and timely delivery.
• Assist with editorial resourcing to address the shifting needs of the organization and support ongoing workstreams.
• Ensure all co-promotional activities maintain brand consistency, align with title campaign strategies, and appropriately leverage intellectual property.

 
Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of communications experience within the entertainment technology, production, post, or VFX industry
• Proven ability to support strategy execution and manage individual partnership workstreams from concept to execution, combined with strong organizational, time management, and project coordination skills to manage initiatives with meticulous attention to detail
• A working knowledge of IP licensing as it relates to branding and content
• Culturally sensitive with experience collaborating cross-functionally with a diverse range of global stakeholders, including creatives, engineers, and technology groups
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and presentation development

 
Nice to Haves or Preferred Skills:

• Prior producer or project coordination experience in editorial/content production (asset creation through rollout)
• Existing relationships or familiarity with industry bodies (VES, ASWF, guilds)
• Experience with regional/global brand coordination, with sensitivity to cultural and market differences
• Sustainability industry knowledge or interest, given adjacent workstream support
• Solid narrative/messaging instincts — able to help translate strategy into external-facing talking points
• Familiarity with a variety of work tools like Airtable, Claude, and other similar tools to aid in building and maintaining effective tracking workflow systems

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