Executive Producer

Job Description

Responsibilities
We are all about making stuff. New stuff. Mold-breaking stuff. And we are setting out to invent a new kind of news channel for a rising generation of news junkies.
OTT.
On all the time. Live news of the highest quality. Authentic. Voicey. Unexpected. Maybe even funny sometimes. But always informative and always stories well-told.

There are tens of millions of people who need the news but who don't have cable. The Internet is great…Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, apps, websites all help but when the news breaks, I mean really breaks, a newsfeed just doesn't quite cut it, does it? Facts happen in real-time, so the news should too. And text is for tomorrow when you've got a few minutes to spare. Video is for now.

Inventing a new channel requires a new kind of leadership. Creative, untethered to the tried and true but knows a best practice or two that's worth following. Fearless, deeply journalistic, a story-teller, with a passion for developing live content across platforms and a track record of doing it well.

If inventing the future of news sounds like a good reason to get out of bed and go to work in the morning, then take a look at the nitty gritty bullets below and get in touch. Resumes are helpful, sure, but seeing your work is what it's all about. And if your current body of work so far doesn't paint the right picture of you, then make us something else. But hurry. We've got a lot to do

The bulk of the job:
• Be ready to share fresh ideas and a point of view about how to engage the OTT audience – what are the big stories they will find exciting, interesting and compelling?
• Help to define the voice of the network and then work with talent, reporters and producers to make sure they speak the language we invent fluently
• Captain the control room (it's frenetic in there so if frenetic is not your thing, you should probably stop reading here)
• Develop and create a pipeline of live programming our audience will want to watch and lead the execution of that content though editorial planning and operations management
• You'll have a team of producers, APs, and PAs all looking to you for guidance, editing, and calm in a news storm

Qualifications/Requirements
• Journalism (enough said)
• You've got a nose for a story, the research skills to report

it, the writing skills to tell it, and the news judgment to

green light it or kill it
• Control room management
• You work fast, but things get really good when news is

breaking and time to air is getting short
• When the news cycle calls you answer, even on

weekends or late nights or after you've already put in a

long day
• At least 10 years of your working life have been spent

doing a job that resembles this one, and at least 3 of

those years should have been in and around a control

room with just as many years of team management
• You have a great sense of humor, or you can recognize
one when you see it
• You have big thoughts and the courage to voice them
• You work with a diverse group of colleagues across

business lines and levels – and enjoy it
• You're a leader who understands what quality means to

production and writing in a news environment
• You have a Bachelor's degree
• You are willing to work in New York, New York

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp10yo-18-222-125-171-42 in your application.