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via Internshipers.com posted_at: 4 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
About the job Job Introduction... Almost everyone in the UK uses the BBC: in fact, in 2020/21, UK adults spent on average over 18 hours a week with us. We’re here to inform, educate and entertain, and we’re doing more of that online than ever: over the year, iPlayer saw 6.1 billion requests to stream programs, and BBC Sounds served 1.3 billion UK plays of radio, music and podcasts. Media Services is the engine that powers those streams: our About the job

Job Introduction...

Almost everyone in the UK uses the BBC: in fact, in 2020/21, UK adults spent on average over 18 hours a week with us. We’re here to inform, educate and entertain, and we’re doing more of that online than ever: over the year, iPlayer saw 6.1 billion requests to stream programs, and BBC Sounds served 1.3 billion UK plays of radio, music and podcasts.

Media Services is the engine that powers those streams: our suite of cloud-hosted microservices prepares, transcodes, packages and delivers audio and video for BBC iPlayer, Sounds, News, Sport, Weather and Bitesize. We also provide the web and mobile player APIs for those services. Our software is the gateway to BBC content for millions of users.

We’re looking for a methodical, inquisitive and motivated Software Engineer in Test to join our Agile teams.

Main Responsibilities

This is your opportunity to:

· Play a leading role in creating and maintaining automated tests

· Carry out manual testing on new features and fixes

· Bring a tester’s perspective to refinement of stories

· Promote a culture of quality across the development team

· Contribute to continuous improvement of our ways of working

Are you the right candidate?

You’ll be highly technical and a strong coder — ideally in Ruby, but experience in other languages is relevant. We’re also looking for:

· Proven skill in testing APIs or back-end software

· Familiarity with AWS or other cloud ecosystems

· Ability to troubleshoot problems in a complex system

· Experience testing workflows that use message queues like Amazon SQS

· A flair for finding subtle bugs through effective exploratory testing

· Familiarity with video and audio streaming technologies

If this sounds like you, and you’d like to help build the future of streaming with a globally renowned broadcaster, we would love to hear from you.

Band: D

Contract type: Permanent- Full time

Location: London

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

· Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

· Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

· Benefits– We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

The situation regarding the coronavirus outbreak is developing quickly and the BBC is keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of people across the BBC, while continuing to protect our services. To reduce the risk access to BBC buildings is limited to those essential to our broadcast output.

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via BBC Careers posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
It’s an exciting time to be part of BBC News. We are expanding in North America, our biggest market outside the UK, and we are recruiting a supervising editor to play a critical role in our growth. The BBC is the most trusted news brand in the US. The right person for this role has significant experience as a daily news editor and thinks holistically about content creation and curation. They... should have impeccable news judgement, informed by It’s an exciting time to be part of BBC News. We are expanding in North America, our biggest market outside the UK, and we are recruiting a supervising editor to play a critical role in our growth.

The BBC is the most trusted news brand in the US. The right person for this role has significant experience as a daily news editor and thinks holistically about content creation and curation. They... should have impeccable news judgement, informed by data.

The BBC’s North American digital operation covers US and Canadian news for domestic and global audiences. It is staffed 7 days a week, from 6 am to 11 pm ET. In this role, you will be expected to work shifts including some weekends, and will be based in our Washington DC office.

Finally, BBC News is committed to creating a more diverse and inclusive organisation. We expect you to help cultivate that
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via Learn4Good.com posted_at: 1 day agoschedule_type: Full-time
Job Introduction • You must be authorized to work in the United States to be considered for this role ... At BBC Global Digital News & Streaming, (a team situated within BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC) we aim to help people understand the world around them, make informed choices, and take an active part in society and democracy. As we expand our footprint to meet increasing demand for our style of quality and impartial journalism and Job Introduction
• You must be authorized to work in the United States to be considered for this role
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At BBC Global Digital News & Streaming, (a team situated within BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC) we aim to help people understand the world around them, make informed choices, and take an active part in society and democracy. As we expand our footprint to meet increasing demand for our style of quality and impartial journalism and unscripted content in North America, we are seeking motivated, passionate, high performing individuals across a variety of skillsets to join our global team.

Our primary locations are New York, Washington DC, and London, though as a distributed workforce we are open to applicants in any location where the BBC has a commercial presence.

Join us and be an essential part of one of the world's most recognized brands and trusted news organizations.

Purpose of the role

The VP, Content Strategy and Planning leads cross-platform content strategy for BBC's global news and factual programming that delivers on BBC values and brand promise, builds loyal ex-UK audiences and maximizes commercial value. Responsible for developing and driving the program plan for BBC ex-UK audiences by bringing together editorial plans across different lines of business and threading them into a coherent narrative throughout the year.

Ensure a steady drumbeat of compelling, high-quality content and identify strategic opportunities across the BBC and cultural calendars to amplify the audience and commercial value of our journalism and factual programming.

Working closely with the SVP Programming & Content Strategy and the broader content leadership community, this role is a critical lynch pin between editorial, sales and marketing teams.

Role Responsibility
• Develop a framework for assessing and implementing content investment strategies that grow loyal ex-UK audiences, BBC brand awareness and revenue
• Build and develop an internal innovation lab by owning and managing resources (people/budget) that can be deployed to pilot new areas of opportunity before being integrated by BAU content teams
• Identify gaps in programming and work across the organization to fill them
• Leverage opportunities to amplify plans from individual lines of business by programming to audiences across multiple platforms, where appropriate
• Support the development and adoption of new ways of working in the BBCX content organization and BBCX more broadly
• Support the adoption of better governance processes for commissioning and role model a positive and constructive response to greater scrutiny around decision making
• Keep abreast of the changing media landscape and anticipate potential risks and opportunities for the content business and proactively develop solutions

Scope & Impact
• Run greenlight process for spends across commissioning teams
• Enhance transparency and scrutiny that's applied to funded commissioning decisions
• Develop and manage the end-to-end program calendar across all BBCX content streams, leveraging existing plan, cultural moments and audience data and analytics to maximize the value of journalism and factual programming
• Promote the BBC(X) brand and our content in third party meetings
• Own the creation, tracking and achievement relevant KPIs and targets, aligned to relevant longer-term plans across regions and business lines, and shared regularly with relevant stakeholders.
• Proactively address areas of under-performance and conflicting positions and implement a robust system of content optimization, internal controls and risk management processes to ensure compliance with BBC Commercial Criteria; regulatory and fair trading policy; and editorial policy.
• Recruit, lead, motivate, and develop the performance of direct reports, building a high calibre team with the skills and capabilities needed to deliver the required results.

Relationships
• Lead cross-functional teams of analysts, producers, editors and visual journalists who deploy efforts around projects with high potential for audience engagement, brand awareness and revenue growth
• Work closely with marketing and comms to build support plans for top priorities
• Partner with sales to better monetize our journalism and factual storytelling across platforms
• Act as the primary editorial contact for sales when responding to RFPs while providing input for and on behalf of the content community
• Work with the Content Creation & Acquisition teams to establish indicators to assess the quality of commissioned content and continuously push for improvement
• Lead Strategic Content & Special Projects capabilities, people, matrix and project teams
• Play a role in leading the Programming & Content Strategy department and shaping its development as a strategic function
• Play a role in leading the overall content community (Programming & Content Strategy and Content Creation & Acquisition departments)
• Act as delegate for SVP Programming & Content Strategy as and when required
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via BeBee posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Vacancies Licensing and Consumer Products Executive Job Introduction To deliver commercial results for the BBC Studios Asia business through by managing day to day relationship with licensing agents and licensees for consumer products (e.g. toys, publishing, merchandise). Build the BBC Studios brands in South Korea across the Asia Region with a focus on BBC Earth, Bluey, Hey Duggee and other key... BBC brands including Top Gear and Doctor Who. This Vacancies Licensing and Consumer Products Executive Job Introduction

To deliver commercial results for the BBC Studios Asia business through by managing day to day relationship with licensing agents and licensees for consumer products (e.g. toys, publishing, merchandise). Build the BBC Studios brands in South Korea across the Asia Region with a focus on BBC Earth, Bluey, Hey Duggee and other key... BBC brands including Top Gear and Doctor Who.

This role is based in Seoul.
Role Responsibility

Licensing and Consumer Products Commercial Activities in South Korea
• Work with Brands and Commercial team to maintain relationships with licensing agents and licensees.
• Create plans for major commercial opportunities for BBC Studios brands
• Support team to deliver plans on time and on budget.
• Keep accurate and updated forecasts for each licence and ongoing sales and retail listings for ongoing deals.
• Work closely with the relevant teams in Content and/or Brands to ensure timely delivery of information and assets to support specific commercial initiatives.
• Facilitate internal approvals for product design, development activities and go to market strategy for multiple brands and licensed product categories
• Work closely with the wider Sales and Distributions teams in Korea and the region to maintain an aligned market strategy

Business Growth
• Undertake market, competitive and customer research and analysis to develop recommendations for new opportunities.
• Collate projections and feedback from the business to support decision making.
• Manage the approval process for deals and new opportunities, making sure that understanding of timelines are shared and deadlines are achieved.
• Working closely with stakeholders at necessary points to ensure they are aligned with activity and roll out plans.

Building the BBC Studios Brands
• Support the Marketing teams to deliver Regional 360° marketing campaigns.
• Managing agent and licensee queries with regards to assets requests.
• Assist with the development and execution of B2B and B2C events to support the consumer products business.
• Oversee creation of suitable sales support materials and brand presentations as required.
• Attend trade fairs, presentations and industry events as necessary
Are you the right candidate?
• Communication and analytical skills required. Ability to liaise with diverse staff at all levels in Korea, Asia, UK and internationally.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Self-starter with the ability to see projects through to completion, problem solve, and multi-task under time constraints
• Previous experience in a commercial or sales environment.
• Media and licensing sector experience is desirable
• Experience in building commercial activity around world class brands.
• Marketing and brand strategy experience an advantage.
• Proficient in spoken and written Korean and English. Japanese, Chinese or other Asian languages would be beneficial.

Job Impact

Decision making: Role requires that the ability to work independently and proactively deliver against commercial objectives.

Scope : This role will support their manager to deliver objectives. They will work in a complex environment and will need to manage multiple stakeholders in Asia and globally.

Strategic impact/Influence: Supports manager to deliver licensing and consumer products revenue

Reporting structure : Part of the Brands & Marketing team reporting to VP of Brands and Marketing Asia (based in Singapore). Dotted line into Sales and Distribution Director, South Korea as a Seoul based role.
Package Description

Role: Licensing and Consumer Products Executive
Contract type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Seoul, South Korea
About the BBC

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

We are committed to improving accessibility in our recruitment and selection processes at BBC Studios. If you would like to make a request for support or reasonable adjustments to complete your application, please email us at reasonable- , and we will be in touch with you as soon as possible.
Licensing and Consumer Products Executive
• Job Reference BBC/TP/2362026/65104
• Contract Type Permanent Full Time
• Closing Date 15 March, 2023
• Job Category Commercial, Rights & Business Affairs
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via BBC Careers posted_at: 6 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
***You must be legally authorized to work in the United States in order to be considered for this role.*** The HR Coordinator will support the Human Resources team for the North America and LatAm region. The role will have a primary emphasis on coordinating the pay decision process and related activities, maintaining the HR tracker and checklists for employee change, new hire, and termination... processes, supporting the team with annual HR processes, ***You must be legally authorized to work in the United States in order to be considered for this role.***

The HR Coordinator will support the Human Resources team for the North America and LatAm region. The role will have a primary emphasis on coordinating the pay decision process and related activities, maintaining the HR tracker and checklists for employee change, new hire, and termination... processes, supporting the team with annual HR processes, managing the employee exit process, answering general employee inquiries, managing employee communications and events, providing administrative support for the team, serving as a manager resource and point of contact for HR processes and systems. The role also works in partnership with wider teams to coordinate more complex projects and deliverables and to maintain accurate data
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via BeBee posted_at: 6 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Job Introduction • **You must be authorized to work in the United States to be considered for this role ... At BBC Global Digital News & Streaming, (a team situated within BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC) we aim to help people understand the world around them, make informed choices, and take an active part in society and democracy. As we expand our footprint to meet increasing demand for our style of quality and impartial journalism and Job Introduction
• **You must be authorized to work in the United States to be considered for this role
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At BBC Global Digital News & Streaming, (a team situated within BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC) we aim to help people understand the world around them, make informed choices, and take an active part in society and democracy. As we expand our footprint to meet increasing demand for our style of quality and impartial journalism and unscripted content in North America, we are seeking motivated, passionate, high performing individuals across a variety of skillsets to join our global team. Our primary locations are New York, Washington DC, and London, though as a distributed workforce we are open to applicants in any location where the BBC has a commercial presence.

Join us and be an essential part of one of the world's most recognized brands and trusted news organizations.

The Purpose of the role is to launch BBC Studios social advertising proposition to market across the Americas, deliver social advertising revenues across the BBC Studios global portfolio and build a best in market Partner Sales team.

This role will suit a self-starter who wants to create the commercial strategy and ongoing market launch & presence of the BBC Studios Partner Sales offering for US, Canada and Latin America.

The individual will have excellent relationships with key media agencies and advertisers that buy social advertising directly from media owners as well as a proven track record in delivering significant social ad revenues.

We are looking for an experienced, New York based senior level social salesperson who has built and managed partner sales teams that have sold social advertising directly to agencies and advertisers.
Role Responsibility
• Create and implement the commercial strategy for the BBC Studios social advertising offering
• Lead the go-to-market launch of BBC Studios social advertising in the US, Canada and Latin America.
• Grow BBC Studios social advertising revenues via YouTube Partner Sales and other platforms
• Responsible for setting the BBC Studios ratecard for social advertising and sponsorships
• Deliver against quarterly and annual revenue targets
• Ensure all advertising campaigns adhere to BBC Studios Advertising Guidelines

Scope & Impact
• Develop BBC Studios positioning and social advertising packages
• Key contributor to the Social AVOD commercial strategy across BBC Group, partnering with critical areas of the business
• Manage the sales pipeline, forecasting and reporting to the VP Sales East Coast

Relationships
• Support the VP Sales East Coast on identifying new revenue opportunities on all platforms we operate on
• Target agencies and clients to buy social advertising directly from BBC Studios
• Work the Ad Ops team in successful delivery and measurement of all campaigns
Are you the right candidate?

As a global business, diversity, equity, and inclusion among team members is essential to our success. We therefore encourage highly skilled candidates from traditionally under-represented groups to submit their applications, even if they don't check absolutely every box on our list of desired work experience.

Knowledge & Skills
• Excellent knowledge of the social advertising market and all social trading metrics
• Strong contacts at US media agencies / clients responsible for buying social advertising including social, digital, AV and trading teams
• Excellent working knowledge of Google Ad Manager
• Possess a strong understanding of the Social AVOD sector, platforms and BBC competitors
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to build rapport and credible, trusted and strong working relationships.
• Knowledge of Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) Regulations

Professional Experience
• A successful track record in selling social advertising/partner sales for a media owner / network, particularly YouTube
• Proven experience in building and leading successful sales teams
• Previous experience with negotiating and delivering against trading deals

Behaviors
• Outstanding communication skills both written, oral and presentation.
• Able to collaborate across organisational boundaries, embrace change, and make improvements to working practices.
• Global mindset: thinking and acting for both local and global needs
• Self-starter with the ability to see projects through to completion, problem solve, and multi-task under time constraints

Compensation information: $75,000-$175,000. Dependent on experience & market conditions.
• *This range is not inclusive of a comprehensive bonus, flexible, hybrid working schedule and comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to: 100% BBCS covered medical and dental insurance for employees and their dependents, vision, competitive 401(k) match, mental health, gym reimbursement, pet insurance, commuter benefits.
About the BBC

We don't focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here
• Competitive Compensation Package
• 100% Employer-Paid Medical and Dental Insurance (PPO plans)
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Flexible, Hybrid Working Arrangements
• Work/life balance
• Free Retirement Consulting to All Employees
• Pet Insurance
• Bagel Mondays, Thirsty Thursdays, and more

COVID Vaccination Disclosure: BBC Studios is committed to the safety and well-being of our employees, contractors, and guests. We follow federal, state, and local guidelines regarding vaccination and testing requirements across our office locations.

Our New York office requires all staff to be fully vaccinated and to submit proof of vaccination.

Please note that most roles require an in-office presence of two days a week as part of our hybrid/flexible working arrangement.
• Job Reference BBC/TP/2274560/64093
• Contract Type Permanent Full Time
• Closing Date 24 February, 2023
• Job Category BBC Americas GNL Commercial and Marketing
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via Jooble posted_at: 23 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Role Responsibility Principal Accountabilities... • Responsible for maintaining and growing revenue for the BBC across our suite of digital properties (including BBC.com, BBC World Service Language Sites, TopGear.com, and BBC Podcasts), both directly and programmatically. • Leverage BBC’s brand position to create compelling sales solutions for clients and ad agencies. • Drive creativity and ideas that differentiate BBC in the competitive Role Responsibility

Principal Accountabilities...
• Responsible for maintaining and growing revenue for the BBC across our suite of digital properties (including BBC.com, BBC World Service Language Sites, TopGear.com, and BBC Podcasts), both directly and programmatically.
• Leverage BBC’s brand position to create compelling sales solutions for clients and ad agencies.
• Drive creativity and ideas that differentiate BBC in the competitive News & Information marketplace.
• Maintain deep industry sector knowledge keeping abreast of industry trends and evangelize the value of BBC products and solutions, proactively keeping clients informed about new product offerings and product updates.

Relationships
• Utilize established agency and client relationships to hit the ground running from day one.
• Ensure optimal market coverage (travel required)and regular professional client engagements.
Are you the right candidate?

As a global business, diversity, equity, and inclusion among team members is essential to our success. We therefore encourage highly skilled candidates from traditionally under-represented groups to submit their applications, even if they don’t check absolutely every box on our list of desired work experience.

Knowledge & Skills
• Deep understanding of the digital marketplace (including custom content and programmatic), trends, and Agency/Client structure
• Proactive and consultative in sales approach to anticipate changing market needs
• Must be outgoing, organized, solutions-oriented, a team player, a self-starter, and a strategic thinker
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Strong one-on-one and group presentations skills
• A demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective business relationships with clients and agencies
• Knowledge of Microsoft and Google productivity applications and Salesforce.com
• Understanding of News / publisher ecosystem a plus

Professional Experience
• 3-5 years of direct sales experience
• Track record of strong revenue growth for existing and new business, relationship building and customer satisfaction
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Behaviors
• Ability to identify & develop strategies for penetrating key accounts and prospects
• Ability to retain and manage a strong pipeline
• Ability to communicate client feedback and marketplace conditions to sales management to help inform product and sales strategy

Perks
• Competitive Compensation Package
• 100% Employer-Paid Medical and Dental Insurance (PPO plans)
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Flexible, Hybrid Working Arrangements
• Work/life balance
• Free Retirement Consulting to All Employees
• Pet Insurance
• Commuter Benefits
• Free Peloton App Membership
• Gym Reimbursement
• Bagel Mondays, Thirsty Thursdays, and more!

Compensation:

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $80,000-$110,000, dependent on experience & market conditions. This range is not inclusive of a comprehensive bonus, flexible, hybrid working schedule and comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to: 100% BBCS covered medical and dental insurance for employees and their dependents, vision, competitive 401(k) match, mental health, gym reimbursement, pet insurance, commuter benefits.
About the BBC

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here
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