eel

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About eel eel sits at the intersection of streaming, creators, brands, and tools. On the consumer side: a free streaming network with music, movies, premieres, eventized campaigns (like Watch & Win), and aspirational lifestyle content. On the B2B side: eel Programming Studio, a SaaS tool for content owners and channel operators. What you’ll do • Own partnerships and revenue across three main lanes: • Content partnerships: distributors, YouTubers, labels, creators, classic libraries. • Brand/sponsorship deals: Watch & Win, music video premieres, red carpet specials, lifestyle channels. • SaaS partnerships: early customers for eel Programming Studio (small streamers, distributors, channel operators). • Build and manage a pipeline of partners. • From inbound interest (markets, conferences) and outbound prospecting. • Across US and priority international markets. • Negotiate deal structures. • Work with Product & Engineering to align SaaS features with partner needs and unlock product-led revenue. • Collaborate with Content & Marketing to campaigns into sponsor-ready packages • Build basic revenue forecasting and reporting for investors and internal planning. What we’re looking for • 7+ years in business development, partnerships, ad sales, or distribution at a media, streaming, or creator-focused company. • Track record of closing content, brand, or platform deals (even mid-sized ones). • Comfort working with contracts (with legal support) and modeling deal economics. • Strong network—or ability to build one—across distributors, agencies, brands, and/or streamers. • Entrepreneurial mindset: willing to experiment with new deal formats (e.g., world cup creator packages, city-based premieres, Watch & Win sponsorships). • Excited to be the person who turns eel’s ideas into actual dollars and long-term relationships. Why join eel now eel is at that rare stage where everything is still being invented—the product, the brand, the slate, the culture—and you’ll have a direct hand in shaping all of it. We’re building two things at once: a music + movies streaming network with red-carpet premieres, aspirational reality and big stunt ideas like Watch & Win, and an AI-powered programming studio that helps other streamers schedule VOD and FAST channels in minutes instead of days. We’re small, scrappy, and backed by a big vision: make streaming feel fun, curated, and eventful again—and give the industry better tools behind the scenes. If you join now, you’re not “filling a role,” you’re founding the department: setting playbooks, making the first big calls, and getting meaningful equity upside if we pull this off. If you love movies, music, creators, and product-building—and you want your work to show up on real TV screens (Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, LG) and in real partners’ hands—this is the moment to jump in.