Confidential mandate
Board Adviser — Streaming Media Portfolio
Planned Hiring / New
A regional streaming platform seeks an independent adviser to challenge content portfolio, product bundling and retention economics before renewing several expensive rights and distribution agreements.
The mandate
The board's recurring question is which content genuinely creates acquisition, retention or pricing power and which merely inflates viewing hours. Rights decisions arrive one title at a time, obscuring portfolio concentration and distribution leverage.
Two monthly days cover a content-economics review and Content Committee attendance. A time-bound rights or distribution proposal receives acknowledgement within one day and a recommendation within four working days.
The ten-month term extends through the principal renewal slate and annual product plan. The committee may authorise a two-month continuation; the adviser has no line authority, greenlight vote, negotiation mandate or executive responsibility.
Up to three appointments may coexist, excluding direct streaming competitors. Producer, studio, telecom, device-platform, agency and investor interests must be declared, with no participation in transaction economics.
Why the board wants this voice
Content teams optimise audience fit, growth values acquisition and finance focuses direct cost. The committee needs someone who has run a streaming portfolio and can connect rights terms to cohort value. Independence from producers and distributors is central.
What you will own
- Test title and genre cases against incremental starts, completion, retention and willingness to pay.
- Challenge viewing metrics that ignore substituted consumption or weak renewal cohorts.
- Press leaders on rights concentration, exclusivity value and post-term catalogue loss.
- Shape portfolio guardrails across originals, licences, sports and regional depth.
- Examine bundling and distribution deals for customer ownership and margin dilution.
- Guide evidence thresholds for franchise extensions and expensive renewal options.
- Advise the committee when scarcity pressure should not override portfolio discipline.
Candidate qualifications
- 18–22 years in streaming, television, digital media or subscription-product leadership.
- Direct P&L or portfolio accountability for content rights and subscriber economics.
- Evidence of linking title investment to cohort retention rather than aggregate viewing.
- Experience negotiating distribution and bundling without losing customer insight.
- Board-committee fluency on content, product and financial trade-offs.
- Independence from rights owners and channels in the renewal slate.
Non-negotiables
- Two Bengaluru days monthly through the principal renewal slate.
- Four-working-day response on complete time-bound rights papers.
- Disclosure of producer, studio, platform, telecom and investor interests.
- No transaction fee, greenlight vote or authority to negotiate.
- 49 words maximum. Which content investment did you stop or renew, and what cohort evidence drove the decision?
- 49 words maximum. Which producer, studio, distributor, platform or investor relationships must be disclosed?
- 49 words maximum. Can you protect two monthly days and review complete rights proposals within four working days?
This mandate is confidential. The client is named only under a mutual NDA, and your own record is never listed, sold or shown to a company under your name until you release it for this specific mandate.