Project - Assistant Editor

Job Description

ESPN's Audience Engagement team is seeking a highly-motivated Assistant Editor in support of the promotion and distribution of streaming video content to multiple digital platforms to increase engagement among sports fans. Primary responsibilities include sharing of authenticated TVE and ESPN+ streams for specific sport and league events, including soccer, basketball, football, hockey and more.
Position based in CT but may be open to alternate locations.
This is an 18 month Project Role.

Responsibilities:
• Keep track of and manage ESPN streaming schedule of key priority events from week to week
• Easily share and upload events to core internal groups and select partner digital platforms, like Google OneBox
• Work with digital platforms to plan and strategize around future sport and league offerings
• Analyze and review digital platform results around engagement, including total unique, subscriptions, total minutes and more
• Learn and execute additional Audience Engagement tasks as needed, including but not limited to, Watch, Sport Pages, Alerts, Main App and Web Feeds, etc.

Basic Qualifications:
• Minimum 1 year experience in sports digital media/and or marketing
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple and varied tasks
• Strong sports knowledge relating to teams, players and storylines

Preferred Qualifications:
• Sports takes place on nights, weekends and holidays – and those shifts will be regular and required
• Experience working with a variety of digital content management systems

Required Education
• Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts degree in communication arts, journalism or new media or equivalent combination of education experience.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnmo8o-3-145-74-54-42 in your application.