Producer #21-282

Advance Local Jersey City, NJ Full-time Writing / Editing

Posted on September 11, 2021

We are a progressive media company that fosters a collaborative working environment for talented individuals who can contribute to our success by bringing their skills and passion to a challenging and evolving industry. If you are looking for an opportunity to work remotely in the evenings, join our team!

Advance Local is looking for a Producer to join our Digital Operations team focused on our websites and digital products. In this position, your focus will be ensuring that all platforms reflect the best content available, by monitoring the latest feeds from newsrooms and promoting it in an engaging way using any available tools and techniques. This position will carefully follow plans presented by Digital Operations Leads and managers, while using the best news judgment to pivot based on breaking news and audience reactions.

In this role, you will:

Continuously monitor content feeds and proactively promote stories in appropriate areas, writing accurate and engaging teases.
Ensure content platforms, including site, apps, and new products, reflect the best content available and the content is optimized for each platform. Keeps stakeholders informed promotion opportunities and promotion decisions.
Anticipate audience wants based on events, past metrics and react to new audience behaviors.
Support newsrooms in issues related to content production, troubleshooting and resolving issues and ensuring the smooth flow of content and multimedia elements to the website, apps and emerging platforms. Communicate with Support to resolve technical issues.
Seek opportunities to create or share content via syndication or other emerging platform needs when appropriate and relevant.
Provide timely and viable responses to urgent tech support tickets, elevating issues as appropriate. Troubleshoot and resolve issues and roadblocks within outlined parameters.
Monitor requests for social media content sharing from newsrooms, addressing urgent social shares from local newsroom managers.
Within established parameters, make sound decisions, generate accurate work, and offer considerate reasoning for decisions made during their shift.

For this position we’re looking for candidates with:

Bachelor’s degree in Journalism or Communications or related field preferred
Minimum two years’ journalism experience, including familiarity with content optimization
Familiarity with audience engagement metrics across platforms (Google Analytics, Parsely, etc.) and an ability to translate them into actionable data
Ability to manage multiple high-level tasks and prioritize work
Proven ability to collaborate effectively and build strong working relationships with multiple stakeholders
Strong communication, presentation and analytical skills
Able to make sound decisions and produce accurate work on deadline
Ability to work independently under deadline pressure
Solid understanding of journalistic ethics
Technical troubleshooting skills to identify root cause of issues

Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package including generous paid time off, flexible holidays and parental leave as well as options for your healthcare.

Advance Local Media, one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 58+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com.

Advance Local Media includes MLive Media Group, Advance Ohio, Alabama Media Group, NJ Advance Media, Advance Media NY, MassLive Media, Oregonian Media Group, Staten Island Media Group, ZeroSum, The Alpha Group, Headline Studio, PA Media Group, and our Enterprise Digital Innovation team.

Advance Local Media is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other category protected under federal, state or local law.

REQ ID: 21-282