The HMH Consumer Team is dedicated to creating world-class digital content and experiences that encourage curiosity and sense of wonder for lifelong learners. As part of one of the world’s leading learning companies, we are uniquely positioned to create educational and entertaining digital products — from early learning subscription service like Curious World to online learning environments such as Go Math! Academy. We also bring to life amazing characters and brands such as Curious George and Carmen Sandiego through mobile games and apps. We celebrate our start-up entrepreneurial spirit inside an established and trusted company.
Channel One, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMHC) company, is a digital content provider focused on encouraging young people to be informed, digital-savvy global citizens. The Company’s primary offering, Channel One News, is a daily news program with supplementary educational resources, aligned to Common Core State Standards (CCSS), to help students, teachers and parents interpret the news of the day and spark important conversations. The Peabody and Telly award-winning Channel One News program is broadcast to approximately 5 million young people in upper elementary schools, middle schools and high schools across the country.
This Interactive/ Digital Producer is a part of the Channel One Product team.
The core responsibility is producing interactive content to improve customer experience and manage content via distribution channels to enhance brand value.
This role is expected to work collaboratively with editorial, social media, scrum team on problem solving.
The right candidate has to be a great communicator, great motivator, and has an innate ability to “get things done”.
Requires expert editorial skills, including copy-editing, proofreading, working knowledge of digital publishing.
Prior experience with producing digital property (website, game, or APP) is a requirement.
Responsibilities:
● Work with digital production team to design interactive elements for ad-supported content, subscription product.
● Research, write, edit articles based on daily show content, current events as needed
● Work with Product Owner and Business Analyst to create stories based on editorial requirements
● Create, manage and track project deliverables across the entire agile story lifecycle
● Support QA to test and transition knowledge of new CMS (WordPress) features to editorial
● Manage content distribution channels
Job Requirements
Requirements:
● Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Marketing and Communications
● Minimum of 1 year experience with digital content production/publication
● Experience and ability to edit, crop, color-correct graphic images in Adobe Creative Suite
● Strong understanding of web production and deployment principles/best practices
● Basic HTML5, CSS for digital editing
● Experience in Agile development practice is a plus
● Strong attention to detail
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills
● Spelling, grammar, proofreading and editing skills
● Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
● Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects
Physical Requirements:
• Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing).
• The person in this position needs to move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings.
ABOUT US:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K–12 education content, services, and cutting-edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom. HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide, while its award-winning children’s books, novels, non-fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world.
PLEASE NOTE:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.
