Director of Content Operations
ClipSyndicate has an immediate opening for a Director of Content Operations who will be the primary lead for all aspects of onboarding, maintaining, and managing ClipSyndicate's relationships with content providers. Job will have additional editorial responsibilities related to managing the content on ClipSyndicate's home page.
Responsibilities:
- Assume ownership of content provider relationship at the point of completion and hand-off from business development.
- On-board content feeds from providers by clearly communicating technical specs, managing technical calls, and overseeing the ingestion process into the ClipSyndicate content database.
- Regularly review content provider compliance with ClipSyndicate's specs and communicate with providers as necessary to resolve issues.
- Act as the key liaison for content provider relationships and troubleshoot issues and problems as needed.
- Communicate key information and updates from ClipSyndicate to the content provider base
- Analyze and report on content provider performance.
- Maintain editorial oversight of content on the ClipSyndicate homepage, updating it daily with selections from our content database. Create an editorial voice for the homepage that reflects the interests and needs of our clients and audience.
- Oversee and manage content processes in ClipSyndicate's Syndicaster product, including managing editorial outsource team located abroad.
Requirements:
- 4 to 7 years related experience working at an online publisher or video distribution service in a programming, producer or operations role.
- Must have strong working knowledge of key internet video technologies including: MRSS, FTP, http, flash, compression and other video related technologies. Must be able to discuss technical issues with technical managers and provide clear direction to same
- Must be able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to interface well with clients and senior executives.
- Interest and passion for the online video space is a MUST.
- B.A./B.S. required.
Software Developer
Are you a web 2.0 fanatic? Love agile web development?
We are looking to hire software developers with experience in:
- Ruby on Rails
- MySQL
- W3C standards compliant XHTML / CSS
- Javascript
- AJAX
- Basic database schema design
- Subversion
- Good communication skills
- Working in medium to large coding teams
Even better if you are familiar with:
- Streaming Video
- Flash 9 Development
- Video Transcoding
- DoubleClick DART/Motif
Note: Currently we are located in New York, NY and only hiring on-site employees. No Contractors.
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