About Owl & Co
Owl & Co is a strategic advisory and data firm focused on media, tech and the attention economy, founded by Hernan Lopez (former CEO of Fox International Channels and founder of Wondery, acquired by Amazon). We advise CEOs, boards and investors from public companies to venture-backed founders on enterprise value creation, product and competitive strategy.
We publish Streamonomics®, a newsletter that helps executives and investors see how time spent connects to enterprise value, and we host and co-host industry events, including the Vertical Media Summit and CEO Roundtables. Our clients, readers and event audiences span every major streamer, studio and tech platform, along with the independent studios, AI startups and investors building what comes next.
The attention economy is changing fast. TV, film, sports, music, podcasts and creators are converging into media super-apps, vertical video is becoming the third audiovisual language, and AI is changing how media gets made and sold. We track and predict these shifts in our research, and we help clients act on them with an operator-led team and models that run continuously on live data, much of it proprietary.
The role
We are hiring an Engagement Manager to own client engagements end to end, from first framing to board-ready deliverable. You will take a client question and a pile of raw inputs, decide how to attack it, and build the storyline, the models and the deck yourself. This is a delivery role, with no business development required.
You will report to our Founder and work alongside our analysts and our desk of 30+ experts and advisors. The role is in person at our offices in West Hollywood, CA.
What you will do
- Own each engagement and its final product: frame the problem, set the hypothesis, write the storyline before the slides, at the standard clients expect from a top strategy firm. If a page does not advance a decision, we cut it.
- Work across our premium data partnerships, market-intelligence platforms and AI connectors to find answers a larger team would take weeks to reach.
- Extend our proprietary frameworks, including Streaming Enterprise Value®, Streamonomics®, Engagement Alpha™ and Vertical Alpha™.
- Help shape our data products, including the Vertical Index, which tracks 22 platforms and 100,000+ titles daily, and a new streaming intelligence service launching in 2027.
- Present findings and options to CEOs and senior leaders.
Who you are
- You have at least 6 years of experience, including meaningful time in a top tier management consulting firm, investment bank, strategy firm, or in-house strategy or corporate development team, and at least a year leading a case team or workstream while still building the core analysis yourself.
- Experience with media, streaming, tech or advertising clients or companies is strongly preferred.
- You build from zero and have a working answer before the analysis is done. Your decks need minor editing, not rewriting: argument-driven titles, a clear narrative arc and a strong sense of design.
- You fix what’s missing without being asked, in a deck or in the firm itself, and you get clients what they need before they ask.
- You find the question behind the client’s brief, and you go one layer deeper than the briefing requires; the second-order implication is usually where the value is.
- You think independently and from first principles. You reason in enterprise value terms and can build a sensitivity table from scratch and explain it to a board.
- You write concisely without losing nuance.
- You are financially fluent, and you have a point of view on who is building durable value in the attention economy.
- You understand how audiences are measured, from panels to big data. Hands-on experience with audience research tools is a plus.
- Proficiency in Claude is a must, as is expert-level PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
- You are direct: we expect you to disagree before a decision and commit after it.
- You follow through on the details, including the ones in this post.
What we offer
- Base salary of $200,000 to $230,000, plus a discretionary performance bonus and a percentage of fees generated from originated transactions.
- C-suite and board access at the companies and investors shaping the attention economy, which most consultants wait a decade for, plus a seat in the room at the industry events we host and co-host.
- A direct working partnership with a founder who has built and scaled media businesses globally and will invest in your growth as a strategist and advisor.
- A team that uses AI to do work firms ten times our size can’t.
- Your analysis will show up in Streamonomics and in the press that quotes it.
- A clear path to Principal.
- Based in Los Angeles (West Hollywood), in person five days a week. Travel is light.
Not ready for a full-time move?
We are also adding to the Owl & Co Experts & Advisors Desk: paid, project-based work for operators and specialists with recent, hands-on expertise in streaming and creator content (TV, film, vertical video, music, podcasts, sports), content economics and M&A, growth (acquisition, engagement, revenue, advertising), and partnerships and distribution. You can apply to the desk on its own or alongside the Engagement Manager role, using the same form.
How to apply
Apply through our application form. Most applicants finish in about 15 minutes. A CV is optional but encouraged. Please apply through the form; we don’t review applications sent through LinkedIn.
We will never ask you to share a former employer’s work or to name its clients. Use AI to prepare, but write the answers yourself: our clients can tell when work is written by AI, and so can we. If you read Streamonomics, show it.
Owl & Co is an equal opportunity employer.
