Director, Integrated Media

Job Description

Responsibilities
Job Duties
• Define the overall digital editorial vision and lead digital managers in executing that strategy, coordinating across all platforms
• Manage editorial and business strategy, operations, and direction for nbcwashington.com and telemundowashington.com websites, social media accounts, mobile apps, and OTT streaming platforms. This includes driving the operational vision and leading the management team on managing the local editorial voice, programming the homepage, gathering and prioritizing content from a range of sources and feeds, managing the execution of publishing workflows, adhering to editorial style guides, and hitting aggressive benchmarks for the volume and frequency of content publication
• Partner closely with peers in the newsroom to ensure coordination of efforts and the ongoing transformation of the traditional news model into a multi-platform content
• Participate in editorial meetings and act as a liaison between television and digital platforms
• Create original articles, videos, and slideshows, assign stories across the newsroom, and curate a wide variety of stories from other sources, including blogs, newspapers, online publications, and magazines
• Collaborate with counterparts in other local markets to share stories and resources across all of NBC's local websites and digital platforms
• Liaise with national Integrated Media and local station leadership team, providing regular updates of business strategies and objectives
• Monitor traffic, qualitative, and engagement trends for digital and mobile platforms and share with the leadership team
• Manage local marketing efforts for digital platforms. Participate in business development with sales management and account executives to provide digital sales ideation. Seek and review business development opportunities for all news platforms
• Partner closely with sales. Present editorial projects, franchises and associated traffic and qualitative metrics to sales team on regular basis, providing specific advertising solutions for clients. Attend client meetings as necessary
• Manage contracts on content partnerships and legal issues of web site
• Lead weekly digital team meeting, providing a summary of editorial, marketing, business development, and research efforts
• Set and monitor traffic and engagement goals for the editorial team
• Supervise, mentor, and manage the station's web site team

Qualifications/Requirements
Basic Qualifications
• 5 or more years experience in a broadcast TV, Cable TV and/or Web-Internet management or operational role
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Must be willing to work in Washington, D.C.

Desired Characteristics

Desired Characteristics
• Must be a skilled writer with outstanding communication skills
• Must be able to effectively lead and manage staff in a creative, demanding, and breaking news environment
• Strong journalism and editorial skills; high journalistic integrity
• Experience managing online editorial teams, with the ability to coach, mentor, direct, and provide feedback to those employees
• Excellent organizational skills
• Proven ability to determine a strategic vision and lead its execution
• Ability to expertly influence a large population to embrace and execute within the digital news space
• Possess a creative and imaginative mindset with proven ability to work independently and multi-task in a results-driven environment
• Ability to adapt quickly to new internal tools and systems
• Experience editing video and creating slideshows
• Must be able to lead large-scale special projects (e.g. Olympics and election coverage)
• Billingual a plus
Eligibility Requirements
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
• Must be able to work early morning, night, and weekend hours when demanded by the group's start-up environment, breaking news, or other editorial responsibilities
• Must submit a resume through nbcunicareers.com

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gq6nw1-18-191-171-20-42 in your application.