{"id":15406,"date":"2014-04-09T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=15406"},"modified":"2014-04-09T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:20:18","slug":"gig-intern-building-online-childrens-network-international-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2014\/04\/09\/gig-intern-building-online-childrens-network-international-media\/","title":{"rendered":"[GIG \/ INTERN] Building Online Children&#8217;s Network, International Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re building an online children&#8217;s TV network with a personalized channel for every kid.\u00a0 The content comes from the best producers and networks around the whole world, and we&#8217;re dubbing everything into English and Spanish.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve built basic UIs and user-video-management tools, and now we&#8217;re looking for 1 or 2 tech-geeky people to expand the technology side of the project.<\/p>\n<p>Core technology demands include<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>highly scalable cloud-based video management and delivery,<\/li>\n<li>pushing the interactive envelopes of HLS and MPEG-DASH,<\/li>\n<li>repurposing recommendations algorithms for programming personalized TV channels, and<\/li>\n<li>managing a proprietary user database for programming and other analytics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also building interactive experiences around the TV-watching core. \u00a0These will include social viewing, where you can watch a show with real-time video chat with your friends, and collaborative video mash-up tools. \u00a0It would be an advantage if our tech people are also interested in interactive design, but we&#8217;ll be more than happy if they&#8217;re just into implementing the interactive imaginings of non-tech creative types.<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, we hope to find someone who can manage relationships with SaaS vendors.<\/p>\n<p>From now through this summer, we can welcome folks on either a part-time or internship basis, depending on their background\/experience, interests and schedules. \u00a0By autumn, part-time positions should start turning into full-time, with freelance opportunities opening for interns who fit with our team.<\/p>\n<p>In short, we&#8217;re interested in meeting whip-smart folks ready to play, build and grow with a disruptive global brand right here in NYC. \u00a0The process is pretty informal to start: Anyone who&#8217;s interested can just shoot me a letter of interest with a CV.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<br \/>\n<strong><b>Russell Miller<br \/>\n<\/b><\/strong><strong><a href=\"mailto:rm@intentionalmedia.net\" target=\"_blank\">rm@intentionalmedia.net<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re building an online children&#8217;s TV network with a personalized channel for every kid.\u00a0 The content comes from the best producers and networks around the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intern","category-job","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}