• Daring. Exploring. Imagining. Innovating

    Nikkia Jackson

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    Nikkia Jackson

     

    Founder and CEO of N8 Beauty, an inclusive plant-based skincare brand committed to providing uncompromising and intentional skincare for diverse complexions who struggle with uneven tone, texture and hyperpigmentation.

     

     

    Process-oriented Operations leader, highly adept at driving production development efforts across linear, streaming and digital media platforms. Passion for creating collaborative spaces for creatives to amplify their voices and showcase their best work.

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  • N8 Beauty

    Inclusive. Impactful. Intentional

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    Nourish Your Beauty, Innately

    An inclusive plant-based skincare brand uniquely formulated to nourish and highlight the innate beauty of all diverse complexions.
    Crafted and formulated with uncompromising intentionality, N8 Beauty sits at the revolutionary intersection of inclusive beauty and conscious-luxe.
  • Relavent Experience

    • Built startup, science backed, clean beauty brand in the health and wellness ecommerce space working with UGC's, content creators, influencers, media outlets, and content optimization platforms to grow a business with discreet budget resources
    • Over 10+ years of entertainment industry experience collaborating with content creators across mediums from publication, long form television, streaming and digital media
    • Lead point of contact between Writers Guild of America, directors,producers, showrunners and executives in charge and internal key stakeholders to track creative hires, contracts and invoicing and project deliverables
    • Spearheaded process integration workflows across streaming, linear and digital platforms for content development project launches
    • Spearheaded XF department adoption of project management database system and processes that received 80% adoption across creative and business teams
    • Implemented and executed workflow and creative department processes that reduced company capitalization expenses by 23% YOY within pre-production phase
    • Worked live to live productions for major tentpole activations such as BET Awards, MTV awards, Vh1 Video Music Awards, Vh1 Divas
  • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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    Complex, Los Angeles, CA

    Director, Development & Programming Operations

    January 2022 - February 2023

    • Innovate and streamline the development and programming process across departments to support the growth and stability of Complex Networks while ensuring operational best practices are maintained
    • Responsible for partnering with content executives, brand partnership executives, and key department stakeholders at Complex Networks to streamline the overall content process from development to distribution
    • Collaborate cross-functionally with content executives, operations and finance to streamline the overall development and programming process
    • Partner with Development and Production teams to garner visibility into the content strategy and timing, while refining the approval and packaging process in line with Brand Partnerships
    • Collaborate cross-functionally with Development and Production teams, as well as Marketing and Partner Solutions to execute the programming slate across a portfolio of products
    • Partner with Sales, Strategy, and Rev Ops teams to maintain product inventories and update and/or adjust packaging, pricing, and margins 
    • Drive adoption of project management tool, Airtable, for cross departmental real-time updates and visibility of product inventory and programming grid across First We Feast, Complex and Sole Collector platforms 
    • Built company-wide Airtable to operationalize programming slate processes from development to launch of new shows/kick-offs to empower the teams to make data-driven decisions aligned to the content strategy
    • Project lead to onboard Wrike for cross-functional project management across biz org

     

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    BET Networks Los Angeles, CA

    Sr. Manager, Programming Operations

    January 2019 - December 2021

    • Conceptualize, spearhead and implement holistic business solutions around key creative operations issues, performance metrics and budget management.
    • Lead with Viacom MTS and Legal team to onboard Wrike project management tool as vendor partner to deploy a customized cross-functional workflow system across BET linear and BET+ streaming platform.
    • Roadmap and prioritize project life cycles, ensure project milestones are met, communicating roadblock and project scope changes to key stakeholders to ensure consistent team alignment
    • Work closely with key stakeholders, development teams and IT leaders to establish scope, and develop cross-departmental data structuring and provide strategic recommendation on data sourcing and data visualization/reporting.
    • Create and manage Airtable project database for all Original Programming to accelerate project delivery, house creative assets, automate processes and reduce redundancies with real time updates and reporting.
    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to track and house all information and documents pertaining to new talent deal submissions, active productions, and digital asset management to ensure all project deliverables and milestones track on time, on budget and in compliance with technology specs.
    • Create and implement project pipeline automations and workflow to streamline Greenlight to Air productivity.
    • Onboard cross-functional departments to Wrike project management software to ensure remote work continuity and project transparency
    • Partner with Viacom Production Operations and Technology to ensure relevant capabilities, tools and technologies are prioritized and implemented for optimized workflow integration between BET linear and BET+ streaming service.
    • Apply Scrum Agile principles to contextualize roadmap and prioritize, project life cycles, maximize workflow and budgets, oversee deadlines, create clear visibility, and identify and design solutions to creative roadblocks process.
    • Track timely delivery of writer development steps on all pilot/series orders. Trigger invoice payment release for all deliverables.
    • Liaison with WGA on behalf of all BET Scripted Programming new talent hires.
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    BET Networks Los Angeles, CA

    Executive Assistant, Original Programming

    November 2015 - January 2018

    • Provided executive administrative support for President of Original Programming and Senior Executive Consultant, Scripted of Original Programming
    • Provided executive administrative support for Senior Executive Consultant, Unscripted of Original Programming
    • Maintain schedule and heavy calendar management
    • Planned and coordinated departmental events and conferences as needed
    • Create and maintain heavy travel itineraries
    • Maintain files and process reports in accordance with department policy
    • Submit travel and other business related expenses for reimbursement
    • Pulled selects from dailies and shows in production
    • Read and analyze incoming submissions, scripts, and reports in order to determine significance and plan distribution
    • Attended pitches, evaluate materials, generate internal concepts, all toward finding new projects
    • Stay abreast of all things social, global and pop cultural, developing materials relevant to our audience
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    CASSIOPÉE FILMS Paris, France

    Freelance Production Coordinator 2014 - 2014

    • Worked alongside film producer to determine shooting schedule, location, and casting of actors
    • Monitored production timetable and budget for upcoming projects
    • Managed post-production distribution to domestic art houses for premiere screenings
    • Handled film submissions to international film festivals through UniFrance for shorts e.g., Country Parasite, Abribus and La Photocopie de Papa
    • Completed over-haul and re-design of official company website using WordPress web software
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    VIACOM, New York, NY

    Executive Assistant - Coordinator 2006 - 2013

     

    VH1 Soul, Brand Re-Launch and Channel Development

    • Responsible for formulating and presenting VH1 Soul soft re-launch business proposal
    • Coordinated and executed of re-launch of VH1 Soul brand for both linear and digital platforms
    • Researched potential opportunities for revenue generation and brand expansion
    • Spearheaded implementation of strategy plan to integrate Soul programming with core channel VH1
    • Read scripts for potential feature length and theatrical productions related to VH1 Soul
    • Participated in pitch meetings with external producers and talent
    • Oversaw creation and project delegation of VH1 Soul social media platforms
    • Worked with digital team on cross promoting linear programming for Marley, a VH1 Rock Doc premiere

    New Business Development  

    • Assisted SVP with identifying and evaluating potential strategic partnerships to help drive ratings and revenue generation e.g., McDonalds and HSN

    Special Events

    • Worked across internal functional teams e.g., Production, Press, Music & Talent Departments during major broadcast events and award shows including, MTV Video Music Awards, VH1 Hip Hop Honors and BET Soul Train Awards
    • Led the planning and implementation of special event projects for VMN sponsored not-for-profit organizations Global Language Project and The Posse Foundation, by tracking expenditures, visit on-site venues with clients, maintain communication with speakers, vendors and participants; coordinate and monitor event timelines to execution

    Administrative

    • Provided direct administrative support to the EVP, Strategy and Operations, MTV and VH1
    • Provided support for annual budget presentation
    • Acted as a liaison between EVP and other internal department heads within MTV Networks
    • Managed department intern program
    • Actively participated in internal cross functional teams specifically Production, Music and Talent departments during major tent-pole events and award shows
    • Assisted with assigned projects and ancillary needs on potential strategic partnerships
    • Helped identify and evaluated potential programming opportunities to gain maximum exposure and ratings growth for brand
  • EDUCATION & SKILLS

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    NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

     

    A.A.S.,Communication Arts, October 2010

     

    • Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
    • Proficient in internet research
    • Commanding knowledge of various social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, lnstagram. etc.)

     

    NYIT is a global, private institution of higher education with 13,000 students on campuses in North America, China, the Middle East, and online. Since 1955, NYIT has pursued its mission to: provide career-oriented professional education, give all qualified students access to opportunity , and support applications-oriented research that benefits the larger world

     

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    CERTIFICATION OF COMPLETION

    2005-2006

    • 2005 - Certification of Completion awarded by Blue Data in Microsoft Office Suite
    • 2005 - Certification of Completion awarded by New Horizons Computer Learning Center in Access Level 1
    • 2006 - Certification of Completion by Skillpath Seminars in The Indispensable Assistant training
    • Proficiency in Seibel and Act database programs
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    CERTIFICATION OF COMPLETION

    2016

    • 2016 - Certification of Completion Story Analysis for Film and Television  
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    Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®), from Scrum Alliance®

    December 2019 - January 2022

    ● Creates and communicates the product vision to the Scrum Team and understands release goals
    ● Makes decisions with the customer and business in mind
    ● Maintains a Product Backlog

  • CONTACT ME

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    Email

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    Greater Los Angeles & New York City Metropolitan Areas