About the Role
Video team at New York Times is a cross functional team made up of designers, developers, project management, QA, marketing, audience development, and social media managers. This role reports directly into the Director of Video Product at the New York Times
Responsibilities:
- Identify key opportunities within the video experiences to promote audience growth and user retention
- Use data and analytics to understand the New York Times audience and their behavior around video consumption
- Use video analytics, user interviews, and user surveys to drive decision making
- Design, maintain and generate data dashboards
- Liaise with internal stakeholders from advertising, marketing, and editorial to understand their objectives, challenges and opportunities.
- Collaborate closely with design and technology to reach product goals
- Proactively identify insights that help stakeholders achieve their objectives and improve our products and services.
- Influence internal stakeholders at all levels of the organization to take action based on insights generated to seize business opportunities
- Present product analysis and recommendations to team members and senior executives
About You:
- 2+ years of relevant experience working with video product development at a media company.
- Deep analytical skills—this role will require you to dig through data, uncover user trends, track feature roll outs, and identify both success and failure throughout the video products.
- Strategic creative and conceptual skills—this role will require you identify key opportunities and features that ran reach aggressive goals, while maintaining the New York Times journalism and business standards.
- Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills—this role will require you to work closely with all members of the design, development, qa, and project management team. As a leader on the product analysis side, it is crucial that you can positively and effectively work with these team members.
- You aren’t afraid to fail—this group is part of a growth initiative for the company, and is constantly experimenting with new ways for users to experience video. The person in this role must have a very proactive and fearless approach to all product development and experimentation
- Love for video—this team lives and breathes video content and technology, and it’s important that all members of the team have a strong passion for the work we’re doing as a team.
- Knowledge of the digital video ecosystem – this includes industry knowledge on the latest technology, media competitors, innovation in the digital video space, and business models for digital first video companies.
- Strong business acumen—this person will need to understand corporate strategy, extract and apply that to the video objectives, and advocate for these actionable findings throughout the organization.
- Friendly and great sense of humor—the video team is diverse and a close group within the organization, and we want to be sure that all new members have a positive experience with the team.
Company Information: The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is a global media organization dedicated to enhancing society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information. The company includes The New York Times, International New York Times, NYTimes.com, INYT.com and related properties. It is known globally for excellence in its journalism, and innovation in its print and digital storytelling and its business model. Follow news about the company at @NYTimesComm.
EEO Statement: The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.
Video team at New York Times is a cross functional team made up of designers, developers, project management, QA, marketing, audience development, and social media managers. This role reports directly into the Director of Video Product at the New York Times
Responsibilities:
- Identify key opportunities within the video experiences to promote audience growth and user retention
- Use data and analytics to understand the New York Times audience and their behavior around video consumption
- Use video analytics, user interviews, and user surveys to drive decision making
- Design, maintain and generate data dashboards
- Liaise with internal stakeholders from advertising, marketing, and editorial to understand their objectives, challenges and opportunities.
- Collaborate closely with design and technology to reach product goals
- Proactively identify insights that help stakeholders achieve their objectives and improve our products and services.
- Influence internal stakeholders at all levels of the organization to take action based on insights generated to seize business opportunities
- Present product analysis and recommendations to team members and senior executives
About You:
- 2+ years of relevant experience working with video product development at a media company.
- Deep analytical skills—this role will require you to dig through data, uncover user trends, track feature roll outs, and identify both success and failure throughout the video products.
- Strategic creative and conceptual skills—this role will require you identify key opportunities and features that ran reach aggressive goals, while maintaining the New York Times journalism and business standards.
- Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills—this role will require you to work closely with all members of the design, development, qa, and project management team. As a leader on the product analysis side, it is crucial that you can positively and effectively work with these team members.
- You aren’t afraid to fail—this group is part of a growth initiative for the company, and is constantly experimenting with new ways for users to experience video. The person in this role must have a very proactive and fearless approach to all product development and experimentation
- Love for video—this team lives and breathes video content and technology, and it’s important that all members of the team have a strong passion for the work we’re doing as a team.
- Knowledge of the digital video ecosystem – this includes industry knowledge on the latest technology, media competitors, innovation in the digital video space, and business models for digital first video companies.
- Strong business acumen—this person will need to understand corporate strategy, extract and apply that to the video objectives, and advocate for these actionable findings throughout the organization.
- Friendly and great sense of humor—the video team is diverse and a close group within the organization, and we want to be sure that all new members have a positive experience with the team.
Company Information: The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is a global media organization dedicated to enhancing society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information. The company includes The New York Times, International New York Times, NYTimes.com, INYT.com and related properties. It is known globally for excellence in its journalism, and innovation in its print and digital storytelling and its business model. Follow news about the company at @NYTimesComm.
EEO Statement: The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.