About MUBI

MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema. To make this possible, we create, curate, acquire and champion visionary films, bringing them to audiences all over the world. We have a team of brilliant, dedicated and passionate people to help bring our mission to life. From London to New York, Istanbul to Paris, and Berlin to Mexico - we work together to realize MUBI’s vision.

That’s where you come in! Join our global team and help us make great cinema accessible to everyone, everywhere.

About the role

This is a fixed-term maternity cover for the Programming Manager, France / Benelux, starting the earliest available date, focussing primarily on the Netherlands.

We're at an exciting stage of growth, and are looking for someone to join our Programming team, to be a key player in shaping our content strategy in European markets. This is a combined role, where you’ll be working in both Programming and Licensing.

You'll work closely with our Content and Marketing teams, and you'll be central to bringing the best curation experience to our members in the Netherlands, and additional European territories (France, Benelux more widely).

Where you’ll have impact:

• Contribute to the design of MUBI’s Programming vision in the Netherlands and additional European territories (France, Benelux more widely) in alignment with key metrics and growth objectives.

• Build and maintain relationships with rights holders across the Netherlands and additional territories, ranging from local distributors, filmmakers and producers but also international sales agents to secure library deals and earlier window licensing opportunities.

• Help shape overall curation and licensing strategies, constantly improve methodology and tool efficiency, and maintain an up-to-date market knowledge to share with the wider business

• Source, negotiate, and draft license deals for library titles and platform exclusives for the Netherlands and additional territories.

• Assess scouted and submitted films for suitability for France and additional territories programming.

• Optimise content in accordance with MUBI curatorial values and objectives, gauging programming possibilities and activating local licensing initiatives

• Collaborate with the analytics team to make data-informed decisions about curation, valuations and investment decisions, to better understand customer viewing, sharing insight into performance and subscriber engagement with the wider team

• Conduct research as needed and general tracking of industry players, overall deals, trends and the competitive landscape.

• Compose editorial to introduce and contextualise programming for subscribers in the Netherlands.

What you’ll bring:

• You have proven experience in the film industry, and digital acquisition or sales

• You have strong cinema knowledge -- domestic and international, past and present.

• You have a solid understanding of the arthouse and independent film market and digital distribution landscape in the Netherlands and other European territories.

• You have excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally, contextualise programming efforts, and match MUBI's high-standard relationships with external partners

• Candidates speaking Dutch at a native level will be given priority (Desired)

• You are able analyse data to make informed decisions (Desired)

• You have the ability to think creatively / outside the box (Desired)

If working on a wide range of interesting, impactful projects with a world class team excites you, then we want to hear from you!

We want to make cinema accessible to everyone. We believe people from different backgrounds bring different ideas that foster innovation and engagement, allowing us to attract great people to develop the best experience for our users.

MUBI is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer.