Programming Channel Editor (News & Opinion) - Pluto TV
Working for the Programming Team, the Channel Editor, News & Opinion is responsible for applying their understanding of what viewers want in order to curate and program content for several of the 250+ channels on Pluto TV. This role reports to the Sr Programming Manager or the Programming Manager.
Responsibilities
- Working with our proprietary Content Management System (CMS), executing a strategy to program and schedule channels.
- Review and analyze data to create a story to support the execution of programming and scheduling channels.
- Review and select content based on strategy, performance, and need within the channels managed.
- Knowledge of best practices in metadata creation and copywriting.
- Crafting appropriate assets that follow the current events of the news world.
- Monitoring and delivering push notifications.
- Potentially working weekends, holidays, or evening hours.
- Other tasks and duties as assigned.
Basic Qualification
- At least 1+ years direct experience programming within a digital or traditional media environment, specifically with News experience.
Additional Qualifications
- Attention to detail.
- Knowledge of and interest in the entertainment media landscape.
- The ability to pick up proprietary program scheduling software.
- Experience working with databases, particularly understanding how databases are essential to this kind of role.
- Comfort working with data and numbers, and understanding how they play into a programming strategy.