Rachel Levy

Served as a contract PM on a new integration product developed in conjunction with HomeAdvisor.

As the PM for SideReel, I was responsible for product planning and prioritization, agile project management, analytics, feature improvements, SEO, and promotion of new features for sidereel.com. This included writing user stories and acceptance, testing features, filing bugs, scheduling releases, and publishing release notes. I also managed the editorial, content, and video teams; this consisted of the remote team in Argentina described in previous roles, as well as a local direct report and additional remote contractors.

All Media Network was acquired by RhythmOne (Blinkx at the time of acquisition) in March 2015. This is a continuation of a previous role.

At All Media Network - which spun off from Rovi Corporation in 2013 - I managed SideReel's catalog, including the continued management of a remote data/content team located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was responsible for maintaining accurate tv show metadata across the site for over 20,000 shows, as well as growing the site's link catalog.

In March 2011, SideReel was acquired by Rovi Corporation. As a manager at Rovi, I oversaw both the editorial and content teams for sidereel.com. I directly managed the local editorial team of editors, a social media manager, a web tv manager, and multiple interns and contractors. In this role, I headed weekly and monthly team meetings, which focused on editorial/content strategy/planning and analysis for sidereel.com. I also directly managed a remote data/content team located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I instituted processes for this team which combined both manual data entry and automated processes - designed in conjunction with the engineering team, utilizing metadata from parent company Rovi (now TiVo) - to maintain and update SideReel's catalog of over 20,000 TV and web series.

As a content manager at SideReel, I was responsible for creating and curating the site's original editorial content, including writing television episode recaps, news, and seasonal special features, utilizing a homegrown CMS and HTML. During this time, SideReel was a user-editable wiki, which necessitated a great deal of community and spam management, including managing the site's moderators. I also wrote and edited site copy, assisted with marketing campaigns, and operated SideReel's blog, which covered site news and promotion of new features.