Careers

Job Summary:

The Manager of News and Content oversees the national news editors and all national-level editorial content that is distributed across the IB network of sites. This includes all news, weather, sports and feature content, both original and syndicated, that IB provides to its sites. This person also acts as the primary liaison between the national staff and IB clients, working to implement content-focused plans to support sales and business development initiatives. This is not a technical position, although working familiarity with basic Internet publishing technology is required. Primarily, this is a news management and content development position. The Manager of News and Content reports directly IB's Vice President of News and Content.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Manage national content staff

   Hire and/or supervise the hiring of national news, sports and feature editors, as well as interactive designer. Manage staff schedules, arrange training, manage personal time off/vacation time. Coach direct reports and mediate routine personnel issues. Administer annual performance reviews; communicate performance goals and feedback on an ongoing basis.

2. Supervise national content

   Monitor the presentation and quality of national editorial content, including national breaking news, routine feature content, major planned events and custom content for special initiatives. Encourage editors to maximize the creative/interactive resources available to them. Direct the development of special sections to be the best they can be.

3. Participate as a key member of IB’s content management team

   Participate in meetings with the content management team. Work to make sure that national content offerings meet the goals of IB clients and their sites.

4. Act as liaison with other departments at IB’s headquarters

   Work closely with key staff in marketing, sales, executive and other departments to ensure News and Content's participation and leadership in key company initiatives.

5. Keep IB’s content offerings relevant

   Work to identify key content areas/types that will keep IB's national content offerings on the cutting edge of the industry through development of new content or creation of strategic content partnerships with outside organizations.

Qualifications & Competencies (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities) Required:

• At least five years of full-time experience in journalism; at least two years in online news or online-related field. TV newsroom experience is preferred.
• Significant management experience.
• Advanced news judgment and ethical decision-making skills.
• Strong familiarity with trends, economics and technologies influencing the evolution of online news.
• Basic understanding of Internet publishing, Web hosting and multimedia production.
• Ability to communicate clearly, courteously and effectively with people of varying backgrounds -- from TV news directors to database programmers.
• Ability to manage and meet deadlines, performing multiple tasks simultaneously while under pressure.
• Willingness to be interrupted and called upon to make editorial and staffing decisions at any time -- after hours, during weekends and on holidays.

Position Statement:

The audience analytics specialist is responsible for defining, tracking and analyzing audience KPIs associated with Internet Broadcasting's Web and mobile products. Day-to-day duties are tactical and hands-on, but the ideal candidate will be an inquisitive, strategic thinker as well. The audience analytics specialist must be able to identify the strategic implications of audience data, and communicate those insights to IB's leadership and clients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as Internet Broadcasting's analytics expert, with detailed knowledge of the configuration and use of various analytics products including Google Analytics and comScore.
• Work with content and product teams to identify audience engagement best practices and track the success of new initiatives.
• Oversee the production and distribution of regularly-scheduled automated audience analytics reports.
• Manually produce custom reports and in-depth analysis as needed.
• Provide ad-hoc assistance to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Assist in troubleshooting analytics-related issues.
• Role may grow to include SEO strategies and tactics.

Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 2+ years experience as an analyst using Google Analytics and other leading tools such as Omniture and WebTrends.
• High proficiency at data analysis and interpretation; ability to translate audience data into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Experience creating dashboards and presentations for internal stakeholders and clients.
• Knowledge of current trends and leading vendors in audience analytics.
• Experience managing analytics for media Web and mobile properties preferred.
• SEO experience a plus.

Job Specifications:

• Job requires working on a personal computer an average of 7 hours per day.
• Job requires frequent communication via telephone and e-mail.

Position Statement:

As a Product Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for outbound marketing activities for IB products and services. You will help craft messaging and positioning for products. Attention to detail and an eye for quality, along with the ability to grasp and translate technical capabilities into benefits is crucial. In your role as a Product Marketing Manager you will be the expert in buyers, how they buy and their buying criteria and will transfer that knowledge to the sales channel. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains intimate understanding of buyers.  Maintains close relationship to customers for awareness of needs and perspectives.   
• Develops market requirements plans (identifies and prioritizes customers' and market's requirements, pain points and whole product issues).
• Develop business cases for proposed products, including expected Return on Investment
• Develops product/solution positioning (understands customers' needs and articulates how our solution will meet these needs relative to the competition.
• Contributes to product life cycle mgmt. Recommends product marketing architecture to ensure consistent product life management, product/feature naming.
• Lead on product launch strategy. Maintains project plan and coordinates organization's efforts.
• Assists with the development of pricing models.
• Develops product training for sales, partners and marketing.
• Evangelizes product at tradeshows, seminars and other events.
• Acts as product champion to promote products to sales and account management via training and answering ad hoc queries as well as communicating with external constituencies, including press and analysts.
• Responsible for working with marketing communications to develop and implement market development plans that meet marketing, financial and corporate growth objectives.
• Owns competitor intelligence.  Trains sales on competitive positioning, objections, and strengths and weaknesses.
• Works with the VP of Marketing to develop outbound and inbound marketing programs for product launches and market communications.  This includes field and customer product support materials such as product collateral, sales kits and product promotions.

Additional Responsibilities

• Organize, prioritize, and handle multiple tasks/assignments/projects.
• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
• Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Experience/Education:

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university or equivalent experience.
•  5+ years of software product marketing experience with at least 2 years experience in a field facing role
• 3+ years working with SaaS and/or cloud/platform software

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent analytical, marketing, verbal, written, and communication skills.
• Ability to work well under deadlines.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Ability to perform duties with nominal direction.

Job Specifications:

• Job requires working on a personal computer an average of 7 hours per day.
• Job requires frequent communication via telephone and e-mail.

Job Summary:

Are you looking to share your creative energy with like-minded individuals? Do you have mad design skills, specifically for digital advertising? Are you willing to have fun and work in a flexible, yet professional environment, all while providing top notch creative? If so, we have a position for you.

Essential Job Functions:

• Create digital advertising campaigns (desktop and devices) mainly utilizing Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Graciously receive and act on constructive feedback as part of a QA process (no egos, please).
• Collaborate with a diverse group of individuals throughout the creative and development process.
• Successfully articulate and justify creative decisions.
• Respectfully communicate with fellow designers, project coordinators and managers throughout the organization.
• Juggle multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• Stay relevant in your position as a digital designer.

Qualifications and Competencies Required:

• Possess an Associate or Bachelor degree in the visual communication field.
• Digital portfolio showing off your best work.
• Effective communication skills (written and oral).
• Demonstrate convincing design and typographic skills as needed for digital advertising.   
• Be agile in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to switch gears multiple times a day.
• Be skilled in Adobe Flash, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Understanding of HTML5 as it relates to mobile device advertising.
• Comprehension of graphic optimization and browser limitations.
• Familiar with information design, site usability and navigation standards.

**Please provide work samples and salary requirements for consideration.

Other Details:

Job requires working on a personal computer for extended periods of time; at least 8 hours per day. Also requires willingness to work occasionally on evenings and weekends as necessary to meet project deadlines.

Qualifications & Competencies Required:

The Software Engineer will be focused on design, development, and implementation of projects on Internet Broadcasting's new and legacy publishing platforms. You will be working on the Hearst Television (HTV) dedicated project team, using modern practices to develop software for our customers, enabling them to manage their websites and their content.

The main development effort will be in Java.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development and maintenance of our platform applications using Java CJ2EE).
• Work with HTV project managers, UI designers, and internal development teams to analyze workflows and implementation strategies. .
• Develop innovative, low-cost, and low-maintenance solutions for our customers utilizing software development best practices.
• Development emphasis on high quality/high performance systems and object-oriented software development in a multi-tenant, multi-tier environment.
• Write supporting technical documentation for all software development implementations.
• Produce and maintain site code and technical data to meet system design specifications. Debug code and troubleshoot as needed.
• Perform other software and development duties as assigned 

Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Java/J2EE (Java 3+) design and development experience. Experience in high performance/highly scalable environment.
• DB background (e.g., MySql)
• Detailed knowledge of major open source projects including Spring, ActiveMQ and ApacheCommons.
• Experience with test driven development and the following libraries: JUnit, TestNG, Mockito or EasyMock.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented programming concepts.
• Experience with Agile Practices
• Experience with dependency management frameworks (e.g., Maven) and continuous integration systems (e.g., Bamboo,Hudson).
• Must be able to prioritize and manage simultaneous assignments within a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong initiative and self-starting approach, and ability to operate effectively in an organizational climate of rapid growth and change are desirable.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills: must be able to communicate technical concepts to management, staff and customers.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Must be proficient with web usability and navigation standards, including web browser features and limitations.
• Experience with development of incoming and outgoing data feeds.

In addition to the above, the ideal candidate will have the ability to work both independently and as part of a team, commit to and meet deadlines; exhibit excellent follow through on tasks; be able to take direction from senior developers and be able to analyze situations and make appropriate decisions independently as needed.

Position Statement:

The Web Developer will be focused on design, development, and implementation of projects on Internet Broadcasting's new platform. You will be working on a project team, producing and maintaining web sites using modern practices and current coding standards. You will help enable Hearst Television to manage their websites and their content in accordance with existing internal standards and external best practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with our Hearst Television, designers, and internal development team to analyze, recommend and implement improved customer workflows and website features.
• Responsible for the production and maintenance of customer web sites.
• Produce and maintain site code and technical data to meet system design specifications.
• Participate as project team member and contribute from a development standpoint on projects as conceived, designed, and executed.
• Excellent communication skills: must be able to communicate technical concepts to management, staff and customers
• Familiarity with web usability standards and navigation best practices including cross-browser compatibility issues.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies, procedures and/or business directives and ensure follow-through of direct reports
• Up-to-date knowledge of latest trends in web application development
• Understanding of the Document Object Model (DOM) and DOM scripting techniques
• A strong candidate will have 3+ years of professional web development experience, a proven record of developing public-facing websites, and a general passion for web development.

Qualifications:

Experience/Education:

• XML/JSON
• JQuery
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Enterprise-level CMS systems

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• B.S. in Computer Science or Equivalent Work Experience
•  Technical aptitude in display-layer development required
• Excellent communication skills, must be able to communicate technical concepts to management, staff and customers
• Must be able to prioritize and manage simultaneous assignments within a fast paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Familiarity with web usability standards and navigation best practices including cross-browser capability.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies, procedures, and/or business directives and ensure follow-through of direct reports
• Up-to-date knowledge of the latest in trends in web applications development.
• Understanding of the Document Object Model (DOM) and DOM scripting technologies.
•  A strong candidate will have 5+ years of professional web development experience, a proven record of developing public-facing websites, and a general passion for web development.

Advanced skills in:

• JSP
• JAVA
• JavaScript
• AJAX/HTML 5
• CSS
• Source version control software (CVS, SVN, Git)

Additional consideration will be given to candidates having experience in:

• Understanding of Agile or iterative methodologies.
• Ant / Maven
• Experience with media players including streaming media, flash and embeddable applications.
• Design Patterns
• Web Services (REST/SOAP)
• Atlassian Tools (Confluence, Fisheye/Crucible, Jira, Bamboo)
• Experience with major news portals
• UI/UX experience