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[JOB] Media Hacker, NBC News

http://www.nbcunicareers.com/view-job?id=180146

 

11443BR
Media Hacker, NBC News
News & Information
NBC News
News Production – Digital
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. It is the policy of NBCUniversal and NBCUniversal’s affiliated businesses to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Experienced
United States
New York
New York
New York
Does telling stories across screens interest you? Do you have some coding experience and a respect for good design? Are you able to build rapid prototypes and share learnings across teams? NBC News is looking for a media hacker to work within the digital innovations and social media team.

This role will be responsible for driving advancements within social news, by maximizing the utilization of tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc, to build audience and increase engagement. In addition, this role will be responsible for resolving technical issues associated with social applications, to ensure these platforms are operating to capacity.

Key Responsibilities
• Monitor the effective operation of social apps and platforms and liaise with IT / Product teams to facilitate rectification works
• Brainstorm creative multimedia content to be social medium ready and upload / utilize as appropriate
• Support shows to self-manage social accounts
• Provide solutions and trouble shoot constant updates to emerging platforms
• Create internal case studies to share how changes in the ways we engage audiences impact their business goals of loyalty, return visits and etc.
• Provide feedback to partners on beta products
• Translate industry news in to relevant actionable items to test and learn from.

-At least three years’ experience in web and TV production.
-Understanding of social media platform API’s (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.)
-Ability to build web prototypes using Javascript, HTML and CSS
-Working knowledge of Adobe Suite and Github
-Respect for editorial excellence
-Sense of humor and collaborative spirit

Additional Skill Set Recommended:

-Experience with video chat environments such as Google Hangouts and other video chat environments.
-DSLR and camera experience
-Familiarity with Omniture and other analytics tools.