Want to reinvent TV news? Then we need you, assuming you are also a creative, entrepreneurial leader who wants to build earth-moving, over-the-top video experiences that befit the NBC News brands. This platform is getting really interesting, and if you can show us that you have some deep experience building for it, then your hat should absolutely be in this ring.
The job reports to the VP of Product, and requires you to know how to lead a small, focused team inside a big newsroom for iconic brands in a very tall building. Your passion is inventing new video experiences on old screens, and/or old experiences on new screens. Basically, it’s about screens and video and making people who watch video on screens really, really happy.
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Be a pioneer. Build our future.
Jumpstart our OTT products and the team. Inspire our engineers and designers to greatness. Find talent and bring them aboard.
Ensure that your teams and products are always in the best health. If something is no one’s job, then it’s your job.
Foster an agile way of working, not for the sake of a fervent belief in a methodology, but because it will deliver outstanding results.
Measure everything, figure out what the data means, explain it to everyone, change things accordingly. Rinse. Repeat.
Solve the unsolvable. The VCMS doesn’t support OTT curation? You build it. Messy metadata? You clean it up. Need a personalization engine for playlists? Find one. (Have we mentioned that you’re the product owner?)
Sit with editorial and help to reinvent how we tell stories that work on this platform.
Surprise audiences, advertisers and partners...but in a good way. Build a loyal following for our OTT products and work with sales the find the right way to monetize them.
Qualifications/Requirements To Get The Gig, Show Us That You:
Have managed and delivered amazing video-driven products at a publisher or platform for at least 5 years.
Experience building a video publisher or platform from the ground up.
Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience as a Designer, Developer, Editor, or Entrepreneur in digital products.
Must have Bachelor's degree
Additional Job Requirements:
Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered
Must be willing to work in New York
Desired Characteristics More About You:
You get what’s happening in media today…but more importantly what will be happening tomorrow.
When people talk about you, they talk about how creative you are, and how great you are at drawing creativity out of other people, and how you like to bring in really tasty stuff that you baked last night.
You have just the right sized reality distortion field so that you can see what others don’t and ‘impossible’ is just a silly word to you.
Demonstrate dynamic leadership traits to enable fast, effective decision making to deliver product objectives.
Have failed at something interesting
You have great judgment and taste...but you also love your data.
You take your job seriously, but not yourself.
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