Coordinating Producer, MS NOW Digital
Versant Media · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
On-siteProduct$150k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Oversee weekend editorial direction across all aspects of social content production, from ideation to final post.
- Serve as the central coordinator for digital producers attached to weekend shows maintaining organization across all shows, establishing clear workflows, and ensuring a steady pipeline of original videos and broadcast clips.
- Edit, produce, and script original video content.
- Launch and assign videos to team producers, giving final editorial sign-off before posting.
- Deliver clear and constructive notes on scripts, edits, and post-production cuts.
- Approve captions, banners, and graphics before posting.
- Monitor linear broadcast in real time, identify compelling, newsworthy moments and directing producers on rapid turnaround content.
- Ideate and execute new formats to grow the MS NOW brand.
- Collaborate on special rollouts, live events, and high-profile launches with marketing, direct-to-consumer, PR, and promotions teams.
- Ensure all content meets editorial standards with Standards and Legal.
Qualifications
- 7 years of experience producing, writing, and editing news content.
- Proven editorial leader with a track record of managing and mentoring producers in a fast-paced, breaking news environment.
- Expert video editor in Adobe Premiere.
- Extensive experience producing and optimizing content for YouTube, including best practices for headlines, thumbnails, descriptions, and audience development.
- Hands-on experience shooting video and producing in creative, visually compelling ways.
- Deep knowledge of news, politics, and the evolving social media landscape.
Desired Qualifications
- Strong understanding of content strategy across digital, social, streaming, and livestreaming platforms, with a proven ability to grow a brand's social presence.
- Experience coordinating across multiple shows and teams, with the ability to build and maintain organized workflows that keep content pipelines moving efficiently.
- Demonstrated success collaborating with anchors, reporters, contributors, and talent on video packages and original social content.
- Exceptional editorial judgment with the ability to identify the strongest moments from air and translate them into high-performing social content.
- Decisive, and highly organized under pressure and able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines without sacrificing quality or editorial standards.
- Strong communicator and collaborator.
Additional Requirements
- Must work in New York, NY.
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.
- Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, under tight deadline pressure, including breaking news and special projects.
Pay
$115,000 – $150,000
Schedule
Wednesday-Sunday 9am-5pm