Company: Universal Music Enterprises
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 3 years

Job Description: Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) is the centralized U.S. catalog entity for the Universal Music Group. Working closely in concert with all of the company’s record labels, UMe provides a global frontline approach to catalog management, a concentration of resources, a greater emphasis on strategic marketing initiatives and opportunities in new and emerging technologies. 

UMe is seeking a passionate music enthusiast with A&R experience, deep catalog music knowledge, experience with video production and strong music business background to join our catalog A&R team as the Manager of A&R. This role reports to the VP, A&R and is based in Santa Monica, CA.

Company: Universal Music Group (UMG)
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 1 year

Job Description: Interscope Geffen A&M Records is looking for a dynamic Administrative Assistant to provide administrative support to the EVP, International Marketing. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, proactive, a problem solver, with a “can do” attitude. Experience supporting more than one senior executive is ideal, but not required. Passion for music, constantly in the know with pop culture and trends, professional demeanor, and the ability to keep calm under pressure are essential.

Company: Netflix
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 2 years

Job Description: Netflix’s Content Strategy & Analysis team is looking for an Associate to join its team in its Hollywood office. The Content Strategy & Analysis team develops strategic insights to further the company's global content efforts and is primarily responsible for deal valuation, programming strategy, performance/audience insight, and competitive analysis. Executives and senior management depend heavily on the Content Strategy & Analysis team to accurately forecast the business and lead the strategic analysis that is used to inform important business decisions.

Company: Amazon Studios
Location: Culver City, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 5 years

Job Description: We are currently seeking an experienced Content Acquisition Manager to join our Prime Video licensing team in Los Angeles. You will be responsible for helping define and execute US-focused content acquisition strategies with major studios, TV network groups and other niche content partners across a variety of business models, including flat fee licensing, pay for performance, and more. Leveraging your experience in both negotiations and content analysis you will work across US content owners to develop new business models and deliver results for both our stakeholders and costumers.

Company: Showtime
Location: West Hollywood, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 2 years

Job Description: Executive Assistant to support SVP of Original Programming. This assistant will perform an array of administrative and project management duties which include, but are not limited to, the responsibilities listed below.

• Utilizing tools such as Studio System, the assistant is expected to learn of key clients and their relationships with the executive so he may schedule or reject meetings as necessary.

• Reasonably schedule meetings/calls, ensure that the executive has locations secured for these meetings in advance, place meetings/calls on his calendar, and remind him of upcoming scheduled items.

• Prepare by confirming external meetings, researching potential projects, researching upcoming meeting participants, and printing or flagging material relevant to meetings in advance

• Ensure executive is on-time for meetings/calls, manage delays by communicating with affected parties, and create contingency plans for issues that may arise due to their high-volume schedules.

• Coordinate table reads and screenings on behalf of programming and the executive.

• Answer Phones, roll calls, and prioritize calls as necessary.

• Maintain up-to-date, informative call and email logs throughout the day

• Keep submission logs as necessary, which track: project name, date received, auspices, longline, and sender/submitting agent and prepare submission logs for submission before creative.

• Track submissions and maintain a list of emails which need responses from the executive. Follow-up with the executive as necessary regarding emails which require responses

• Review new submissions, scripts and revisions, and provide comprehensive feedback as necessary

• Arrange travel as needed from departure from office/home to return including arranging and confirming ground travel, air travel, and lodging

• Circulate confidential and timely information and materials to the appropriate parties

• Maintain an excel spreadsheet of current limited series/special events in development at other networks

• Work directly with the directors, writers, producers and post production team on projects in development and/or filming in various capacities as necessary

• Complete and submit expense reports

Company: Spotify
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 1 year

Job Description: As a part of the Catalog Artist & Label Partnerships, North America team, you’ll support the team of passionate music fans who partner with key artists, managers and label partners focused on advocating, educating and innovating through unlocking internal and external opportunities such as marketing, program and strategic initiatives.

Company: United Talent Agency (UTA)
Location: Los Angeles, CA or New York, NY or Nashville, TN
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 

Job Description: During the program Trainees are exposed to a wide spectrum of talent agency business practices and are given hands-on training necessary to become successful agents in all areas of entertainment. UTA is known for its illustrious client list, which includes many of Hollywood's leading actors, directors, writers, producers, recording artists, content creators, and influencers, as well as some of the world's largest and most recognizable corporations and brand names. 

All trainees begin their agency experience working in the UTA Mailroom. During this initial phase, trainees learn the fundamentals of the agency business and build relationships that will last a lifetime. There will be curated training sessions via our best in class curriculum, UTA University. These classes will equip you with the necessary skills needed to operate on an agent's desk and thrive in an agency. Over the course of the program, trainees will be performing basic administrative tasks, covering desks for assistants and be exposed to client service procedures. Trainees will have the opportunity to work for agents and executives of all levels across all departments based on business needs.

Company: Amazon Studios
Location: Culver City and Santa Monica, CA
Start Date: June 2021
Type of Position: Full-Time, Internship
Minimum Education Level: Must be a current student seeking an undergraduate or graduate degree
Minimum Years of Experience: 

Job Description: Amazon Studios is seeking bright, multitasking, dynamic and self-motivated interns to work hard, have fun and make history with us this summer. Amazon Studios Internship Program, gives interns hands-on experience working with the studio behind award-winning shows such as The Boys, Fleebag, Man in the High Castle and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and critically-acclaimed films Borat 2, Big Sick, Life Itself and Love & Friendship. In addition to working closely with executives in our Santa Monica and Culver City offices, interns have the opportunity to participate in guest speaker sessions, networking events and screenings.

Our summer internship class will take place from June through August 2021. Internships are paid opportunities. Credit is not required, however we will provide documentation if necessary. An Amazon Studios team member will contact you should your experiences and interests match an open internship position.

Company: NBC Sports
Location: Stamford, CT
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 3 years

Job Description: The PEP NBA Content Creator will be responsible for providing original content regarding the key NBA news and events of the day as well as selected columns. 

• Write original and insightful posts on all of the key NBA news and events of the day
• Cover breaking NBA news stories with quick, concise analysis
• Provide analysis for NBA news video, both for live streams and video on demand. Distribute video via stories and social media.
• Be available for appearances on the Rotoworld NBA podcast and help create content plans for thrice-weekly podcast. Distribute podcast via stories and social media.
• Monitor the conversation on the site by the community of fans commenting on news
• Work closely with additional Rotoworld writers and contributors on the site to ensure near around-the-clock coverage
• Work with other writers on the free site, premium sections and big events (Free Agency, NBA Draft, playoffs, etc.)
• Contribute to our premium products in the form of articles, rankings and other analysis
• Be available for regularly scheduled live Q&As on our Twitch platform
• Maintain an active social media presence, promoting the relevant content you create and the content of the other writers on the team

Company: RespectAbility
Location:  Position will work remotely at least for the duration of the pandemic. We prefer people located near our offices in Rockville, Maryland, or Los Angeles, California but will consider people in other locations.
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 1 year

Job Description: RespectAbility is seeking a communications assistant to support our media and press outreach, including writing and editing, fact checking, pitching stories, uploading content on our website and administrative support.

RespectAbility’s Communications Assistant will support the Vice President of Communications and Communications Associate, as well as other staff and board, in our work to effectively communicate with all stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a keen eye for detail, a mastery of grammar and mechanics and enthusiasm for RespectAbility’s mission. The communications assistant will assist with a range of content, from breaking news stories to toolkits and fundraising collaterals.

Salary, healthcare, vacation and other benefits provided. Position will work remotely at least for the duration of the pandemic. We prefer people located near our offices in Rockville, Maryland, or Los Angeles, California but will consider people in other locations.

Award-winning social entrepreneur and author of the new book Unstuck Together

By Jenny Tram AB '22

2020 was a year of immense challenge, adaptation, and reevaluation. 

Our diverse membership touches professions and spaces that span every corner of every industry, all of which have changed immensely due to the global pandemic and its subsequent effects. 

We at Harvardwood believe we should begin 2021 by profiling a delightful, standout professional who exemplifies purpose-driven passion -- not merely success -- in all of her endeavors. If nothing else, we hope this read shines light on what is a truly stellar creative career. We couldn’t be prouder to introduce Laura Weidman Powers AB ‘04.

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Powers is an award-winning social entrepreneur, speaker, teacher, coach, consultant, and author. Her journey since Harvard is one to marvel at. 

Her new book, Unstuck Together, is a non-fiction story about how she and her husband packed up their lives -- and their new baby -- and set off to travel across 11 countries and 48 cities in under a year, in order to reconnect with what makes each of them happy. From spending 2 months in Marrakech, to finding time (and childcare) to go on 100 “dates” while traveling, to having a multilingual child that considered home to be “wherever the three of us were… no matter how long we’d remain”, the book is a fascinating read. It speaks to those who are both ambitious and adventurous, those who have obligations and want new opportunities, and those who are looking at uprooting their lives and creating a new normal for their families. So how’d Laura arrive at this juncture?

“I was way more interested in extracurriculars than academics while I was at Harvard!” said Powers of her time in undergrad. 

In particular, her passion back then was CityStep, a program in which students at the College volunteered to teach dance at nearby public schools with under-funded arts programs. She had joined the organization during her freshman year, and remained actively involved during the rest of her time in college, even serving as Director during her junior and senior years. Passionate about dance, she spent a great deal of time dancing outside of CityStep as well, performing in several pieces with the Expressions Dance Company most semesters. Powers even considered pursuing her love of travel by studying abroad, but ultimately could not bring herself to leave CityStep. 

When it was time to graduate, most of my classmates were going into consulting and i-banking -- two things that I had no interest in (to be honest, I didn't understand what either was, just that they were supposedly desirable).

Upon graduation, Powers decided to lead CityStep professionally. The program had been at Harvard for 20 years then, but it had never expanded beyond Cambridge. She moved to West Philadelphia and spent a year setting up CityStep at the University of Pennsylvania and in the local public school system; by that spring, she and her team had a sold out performance at the main theater on campus, and Powers even had a set of undergrads lined up to run the program the following year. She then handed CityStep off, and today, the program is in its 15th year at Penn and has expanded even further.

As someone who considered herself to be a "nonprofit person" who is passionate about the arts, Powers also led operations for a public art project in New York City that decorated the city’s yellow cabs with hand-painted art for its 2007 centennial. 

“But I was convinced that I needed more exposure to different methods of thinking and building if I was going to be effective in the public sector,” said Powers. 

Company: ESPN
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Part-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 1 year

Job Description: The Part Time Associate Editor will be primarily responsible for editing and maintenance of ESPN.com's content feeds, mainly including interior content landing pages. On a daily basis, this person will assess content from a variety of sources (includes wire services, partners, ESPN staffers, freelancers, plus interactive elements, social media, audio and video) to determine how it fits into our daily news coverage and programming needs. The editor evaluates all sport page copy and headlines, provides feedback on all art and video, and works to package this content in a manner that is dynamic enough to entice users to delve deeper into the site. Must be an excellent headline writer and able to present and tell stories in a tight space. Must show good judgment in prioritizing all online content for a national audience.

This position is part time and will require working nights and weekends.

Company: CNN
Location: Remote
Start Date: June 7th
Type of Position: Full-Time, Internship
Minimum Education Level: Participation in the internship program is reserved for students who are currently enrolled in college. Most positions are targeted to upperclassmen and graduate students.
Minimum Years of Experience: 

Job Description: The Program Development department is responsible for finding new on camera talent and developing and producing innovative content for all CNN Networks across all platforms. Specifically, this internship enables candidates to work closely with the CNN Original Series and Talent Development teams on a myriad of fronts.

From recruiting new correspondents and anchors to developing new CNN Original Series programming, this group touches vital aspects of new on-camera talent and original non-fiction content across CNN.

CNN Original Series and Talent Development interns will be responsible for supporting executives and producers throughout the development process, production of pilots and talent searches.

Company: ViacomCBS
Location: New York, NY
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 5 years

Job Description: ViacomCBS is seeking a Producer who brings strong production and post-production experience as well as an excellent creative background. The Producer's primary function is to produce broadcast quality short-form video projects from inception through delivery. They will be involved in all aspects of the production including production set-up, brainstorming, execution and post-production.

Company: IMG Arena / Endeavor
Location: New York, NY
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 

Job Description: 

• Becoming a domain expert and external evangelist for all IMG Arena products and services.

• Communicating frequently with both existing and potential clients – ideally in person but also via phone or video.

• Establishing and cultivating a pipeline of partnership opportunities within key sport verticals.

• Defining and executing against a strategy to expand the IMG Arena portfolio of rightsholder clients in these sport verticals.

• Management of contract life cycle from initial pitch through to client signature.

• Project managing new relationships into the business in collaboration with internal stakeholders.

• Strengthening and maintaining client relationships on a perennial basis.

• Real-time client problem solving and performance optimization.

• Adopting and evolving best practices for client account management.

• Absorbing industry demands and channelling these insights back internally to drive innovation.

Company: Spotify
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: 
Minimum Years of Experience: 3 years

Job Description: The Podcast Content Strategist position helps steer the direction of Spotify’s original podcast productions from studios such as The Ringer, Gimlet, and Parcast. By synthesizing data-backed insights into meaningful creative recommendations, the role helps develop both the studios’ holistic podcast strategies as well as more granular best practices.

Company: Universal Music Group
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 

Job Description: This position is responsible for coordinating all aspects of new release production, including proof checking and trafficking the final delivery of all print production and audio mastering in a timely manner.

Company: MSNBC
Location: New York, NY
Start Date:
Type of Position: Full-Time
Minimum Education Level: Bachelor's
Minimum Years of Experience: 1 year

Job Description: 

• Work closely with producers to research, select and locate required footage for broadcast.
• Print scripts for anchors and build scrolling crawl daily and maintain with continual updates and breaking news.
• Assist in compiling research for anchors, maintaining on-air updates during live program.
• Gather information on breaking stories for anchors to relay on air.
• Order and coordinate all graphic elements for air.
• Oversee the airing of all graphic elements in control room during live program.