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About The Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of news, politics, lifestyle, and entertainment content. It has a tremendously engaged community for opinion and conversation. 70 million people read The Huffington Post every month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, and Italy. We have exciting launches in even more countries in the coming months.
Role: Coordinator, Business Support and Special Projects
You are here to launch a career in digital media. As a Coordinator, you will support the business leaders of HuffPost in the day-to-day running of the company – including administrative support, organizing events, and helping with special projects. The Coordinator will develop in-depth knowledge of company operations, policies, and procedures.
Administrative responsibilities may include:
· Performs various administrative duties that are of a highly confidential nature
· Always thinks ahead and plans in advance
· Schedules & coordinates meetings, conferences and travel
· Makes high level relationships inside and outside the company
· Uses technology and common sense to make things run more quickly, painlessly, and smoothly
Special Projects responsibilities may include:
· Prepares presentations as needed
· Drafts emails on behalf of executives
· Conducts primary and secondary research
· Collects and organizes information from databases and systems throughout the company
Who we’re looking for:
-A bachelor’s degree from a top tier school
-Experience in or passion for consumer internet and media
-The ability to communicate clearly, thoroughly, yet succinctly
-An obsession for making things around you work better
-Ability to work quickly with a memory for detail
-Creative élan
-“No drama” attitude – we like to get things done
About the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 44 million monthly unique visitors domestically and over 70 million globally (comScore July 2013), posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 50,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Mahgreb and more scheduled to launch in the coming months.
The Team:
The Huffington Post Business Operations team manages the day-to-day and long-term initiatives related to advertising inventory monetization and campaign operations, content publishing and native advertising products, consumer and audience research and analytics, and executive business metrics and reporting. This team reports to the CEO of The Huffington Post, Jimmy Maymann, and is tasked with driving critical business initiatives for revenue growth.
The Role:
Huffington Post is seeking a Data Analyst to assist in providing the analytical “horsepower” and business judgment to support strategic and tactical initiatives. An effective candidate will be given the opportunity to help shape and drive business objectives, while becoming an expert in a fast-paced, data driven environment. Further, while the role is highly focused on desktop, mobile, and apps analytics, it will expand into other areas including revenue, competitive analysis, a/b and multivariate testing, and more.
More specifically, this involves:
Qualifications and Requirements:
Required experience and knowledge:
AOL is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other classification prescribed by applicable law.
About the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 50 million monthly unique visitors (comScore November, 2012) posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, and Italy with Japan and more scheduled to launch in the coming months.
The Team
The Huffington Post Operations team manages the day-to-day and long-term initiatives related to advertising inventory monetization and campaign operations, content publishing and native advertising products, consumer and audience research and analytics, and executive business metrics and reporting. This team reports to the CEO of The Huffington Post, Jimmy Maymann, and is tasked with driving critical business initiatives for revenue growth.
The Role:
In this high-impact role, you’ll report to the Vice President, Operations of The Huffington Post Media Group. You will use your well-honed business, operational and technical acumen to act as a thought leader and project manager driving critical cross-functional advertising operations initiatives and interfacing with our internal Edit, Technology, Legal and Sales and Marketing teams.
This may involve, specifically:
Qualifications:
You are:
Required experience and knowledge:
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At AOL we’re focused on radically redefining the world of online communications. We are transforming how people around the globe connect with information, entertainment and one another by bringing together award winning journalists and innovative technologies to create rich and engaging consumer experiences. We look for people who are exceptionally imaginative, collaborative, and truly excited about our mission - to inform, entertain and connect the world.
AOL is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other classification prescribed by applicable law.
About the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 46 million monthly unique visitors (comScore December, 2012) posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan.
About You:
You’re smart, and make it happen
You love being part of a small team that solves big problems
You’re pragmatic when architecting solutions to real world challenges
You’re informed by both well established and emerging approaches to solving big problems
You keep the end user in mind, and appreciate the value of developing useful software that scales
You’re Agile where it makes sense, but always sensible, clever and hard-working
About the Role: Senior Scala Engineer, HuffPost
As an integral member of our Engineering team, you will work closely with fellow back and front-end engineers, system admins, user experience designers and product managers to create really useful, intuitive software.
Specifically, you will:
Architect, build and ship highly-scalable systems, libraries, and frameworks
Code using a mix of languages (Scala, Javascript, Ruby, etc.)
Requirements:
Passion for building software that makes life easier
An understanding of the challenges involved in building popular applications at web scale
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
5+ years experience building scalable web application (better language for this?)
Given the breadth of scenarios our Engineering team tackles, experience or interest in the following would be ideal:
About the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 46 million monthly unique visitors (comScore December, 2012) posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan.
About the Role: Mobile Developer, HuffPost
The Mobile Developer will be responsible for developing, exploring, and maintaining new mobile products and experiences. You will work in close collaboration with Backend Developers/Engineers
The Mobile Developer role presents a tremendous opportunity for exploring new markets and developing new interactions. An experienced Mobile Developer will enable HuffPost Labs to create new products that probe these markets as well as enable us to evaluate and implement new ways of engaging users in this new context.
The Huffington Post is seeking an editorial fellow to join its Post/50 team in the New York office. Do you consume the majority of your entertainment and news digitally? Are you obsessive about social media? Are you interested in helping to expand a growing vertical geared toward a niche audience? Then you might be a perfect fit for Huff/Post 50.
Applicants should be ambitious self-starters eager to learn and contribute in a fast-paced, fun environment. This is a great opportunity to learn all the ins and outs of new media and get first-hand exposure to the inner workings of The
Huffington Post, while helping to shape and build the audience for an important section. The right candidate will be passionate about travel, health and lifestyle news and eager to package it for a Post/50 audience.
Core Fellow experiences:
- Writing headlines and viral stories
- Pitching and producing shareable content for a social media audience
- Aiding in managing Facebook and Twitter accounts
- Providing direct support to the Post/50 editor
Requirements for success:
- Insatiable appetite for news and information
- Strong research and writing skills
- Enamored with the power and influence of social media
- Meticulous dedication to detail and the ability to multitask
- Creativity and confidence to share your unique perspective and ideas
- Ability to receive constructive criticism professionally, and quickly apply the feedback
- A demonstrated excitement about HuffPost’s editorial mission
The HuffPost Fellowship usually lasts four to six months, giving our Fellows the opportunity to discover whether HuffPost is the right place to launch their career.
This is a paid program providing experience and training from beginning to end. We focus on teaching our Fellows everything there is to know about how the Huffington Post approaches web publishing. This program is based in AOL’s New York office in Greenwich Village.
Title: Account Executive
Reports to: Senior Account Manager
Location: London, WC1E
Grade: TBC
Position Type: Full Time
AOL Europe is made up of the following subsidiary brands – AOL O&O and AOL Networks.
Purpose of role
AOL Huffington Post Media Group UK is a division of AOL Huffington Post Media Group International that is responsible for AOL’s consumer media businesses outside of North America. AOL Huffington Post Media Group UK includes the editorial business operations of AOL’s consumer media business In UK, which include The Huffington Post UK, MyDaily, Parentdish and the AOL UK network of sites.
AOL UK is a top five digital media company in terms of audience, top three in IPA Media Owner Effectiveness Awards, and has continued to grow its rankings in each editorial vertical building brands such as MyDaily into the UK’s biggest women’s fashion and beauty site.
AOL has in excess of 11m unique visitors in the UK each month. The Huffington Post UK was launched in July 2011 and has already surpassed 2.5m unique visitors per month. The Huffington Post in the US was launched in 2006 and quickly grew to become one of America’s most respected online newspapers.
Purpose of role: Working alongside Sales and Account Management, responsible for the flawless set-up, planning and booking of campaigns.
This role requires a high degree of team focus, standards of communication, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task and navigate a matrix organisation.
Key Role Accountabilities
· Developing media plans in conjunction with the sales person as part of the RFP process.
· Reservation of inventory to ensure that we can execute on clients campaign objectives.
· Where inventory is not available, propose alternatives to the sales person for consideration.
· Production of IOs, working with AM to secure client signature and IO return.
· Working with AM, ensuring all bookings are recognised in the Finance system through diligence in campaign administration.
· Working with relevant business teams for account (Salesforce) and campaign (MPS) set ups when required, eg: Product, Monetisation, Traffic, Data Management.
· Managing the takeover and roadblock schedules and ensuring no double bookings.
· Acting as first point of contact for avails and forecasting troubleshooting – investigating and resolving tier 1 issues where possible and escalating tier 2 issues to the appropriate internal contact.
· Share best practice and learning’s among the Sales and Client Services community.
Person Requirements
· Experience within a Sales environment, with media sales support experience an advantage
· Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential
· Excellent attention to detail
· Ability to work in a fast paced environment with frequent pressure to meet deadlines
· Ability to work within a team environment as well as independently
· Planning, time management and multi-tasking skills
· Experience in data input, report extraction & analysis
· Experience with working with clients
· MS Excel proficient
Qualifications:
· A degree or equivalent professional experience
Company Profile – Aol Europe Owned & Operated Consumer Media (O&O)
AOL's Owned and Operated media includes both globally recognised brands and local market leading brands, including The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Engadget, MyDaily and Parentdish. We operate on the cutting edge of media, giving clients a variety of innovative solutions to reach global audiences that consume our world class content on a daily basis. AOL is uniquely positioned in the marketplace to work with brands to move their stories forward given our focus on original content, sophisticated distribution models and social marketing approaches. Simply put, we tell the story, take it places and get people talking. AOL is revolutionising the way online advertising works. AOL also operates AOL Networks , the business-to-business division of AOL that includes Advertising.com, the world's leading premium advertising network, the branded video creation and syndication platform Be On and ad serving businesses ADTECH
Brand Profile – Huffington Post UK (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
The Huffington Post is one of the fastest-growing, most influential internet ventures. At Huffington Post UK we start the conversation through a unique combination of first hand reporting, opinion and aggregated news ranging from politics, technology to education, entertainment and lifestyle. All delivered on a social platform where many well-known celebrities including Sir Paul McCartney, Gordon Brown and Sir Martyn Sorrell blog alongside our other 6000 UK contributors.
As well as The Huffington Post in the UK, AOL operates MyDaily, the largest online fashion and beauty site for women, Parentdish, one of the biggest parenting sites and the wider network of AOL sites, Engadget and TechCrunch.
Further Information
At AOL we’re focused on radically redefining the world of online communications. We are transforming how people around the globe connect with information, entertainment and one another by bringing together award winning journalists and innovative technologies to create rich and engaging consumer experiences. We look for people who are exceptionally imaginative, collaborative, and truly excited about our mission - to inform, entertain and connect the world.
AOL is an equal opportunity employers and does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, political persuasion or trade union membership.
About the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 46 million monthly unique visitors (comScore December, 2012) posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan.
About the Role: Voces Fellowship, HuffPost
Are you bilingual in Spanish and English? Love breaking news and viral web content? Obsessed with stories meaningful to the Spanish-speaking community in the United States? The perfect job is waiting for you at The Huffington Post's New York office.
HuffPost is hiring an editor for its award-winning Spanish-language site, Voces <http://voces.
Applicants should be hungry self-starters eager to learn and contribute in a fast-paced, fun environment. We are looking for go-getter news and internet junkies with strong web and social media skills to work closely with our editorial team. This is a great opportunity to learn all the ins and outs of new media and get first-hand exposure to how The Huffington Post works.
Core Fellow experiences:
- Writing headlines, packaging stories and video content
- Monitoring breaking news and identifying viral stories
- Pitching and producing shareable content for a social media audience
- Aiding in managing Facebook and Twitter accounts
Requirements for success:
- Insatiable appetite for news and information
- Strong research and writing skills
- Enamored with the power and influence of social media
- Meticulous dedication to detail and the ability to multitask
- Creativity and confidence to share your unique perspective and ideas
- Ability to receive constructive criticism professionally, and quickly apply the feedback
- A demonstrated excitement about HuffPost’s editorial mission
The HuffPost Fellowship usually lasts four to six months, giving our Fellows the opportunity to discover whether HuffPost is the right place to launch their career.
This is a paid program providing experience and training from beginning to end. We focus on teaching our Fellows everything there is to know about how the Huffington Post approaches web publishing. This program is based in AOL’s New York office in Greenwich Village.
AOL is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other classification prescribed by applicable law.
About the Role: Manager, Business Development
In this highly diversified role, you’ll report to the Head of Business Development and use your well-honed business acumen to identify strategic opportunities to drive product innovation, revenue growth, and the internationalization of HPMG's properties, including Huff Post Live.
Leveraging your broad knowledge of publisher platforms and technologies, content syndication and the internet advertising sector, you will identify key media and technology partners and expeditiously structure, negotiate, close, manage, and optimize partnership deals.
You will further provide strategic insights and recommendations to business leaders across HPMG’s content, product and advertising offerings using industry analysis, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and most importantly, creativity.
With a bachelor’s (MBA a plus) degree, experience in the media industry, and rigorous analytical background developed in management consulting or investment banking, you will be well prepared for this role. But it is your expert-level knowledge of emerging technologies and traditional media business models as well as your entrepreneurial and creative spirit that will guarantee your success. As an excellent communicator possessing a facility for engaging and persuading top executives, you are a natural fit for our growing organization at one of the most exciting moments in our history.
Requirements
Presentation skills developed from investment banking or management consulting (or equivalent)
Basic financial statement analysis
Appreciation for the structure and history of the global media industry
A desire to grow as a business development professional building on a willingness to learn and existing raw ingredients (analytical skills, interpersonal skills, teamwork, attention to detail, comprehensive work product)
Embodies Aol values
Ability to build relationships across the enterprise
A plus but not required
Business Development or sales experience
Financial modeling, financial statement analysis experience
Experience in traditional media (books, magazines, newspapers, TV, film, sports, music)
Experience in digital media (online publishing, online video, games)
Existing rolodex of contacts
The Huffington Post is seeking an editorial fellow to cover small business and entrepreneurship in its New York office.
Applicants should be hungry self-starters with a familiarity with business and tech news eager to learn and contribute in a fast-paced, fun environment. We are looking for go-getter news and internet junkies with strong web skills. This is a great opportunity to learn all the ins and outs of new media and get first-hand exposure to how The Huffington Post works.
Primary responsibilities:
- Writing headlines, packaging stories, and video content
-Find and write short stories about the hottest entrepreneurs, small businesses and startups.
--Conceive and package career strategy and management strategy stories.
- Monitoring breaking news and identifying viral stories
- Pitch and produce shareable content for a social media audience
- Aid in managing Facebook and Twitter accounts
Requirements for success:
- Insatiable appetite for news and information
- Strong research and writing skills
- Enamored with the power and influence of social media
- Meticulous dedication to detail and the ability to multitask
- Creativity and confidence to share your unique perspective and ideas
- Ability to receive constructive criticism professionally, and quickly apply the feedback
- A demonstrated excitement about HuffPost’s editorial mission.
The HuffPost Fellowship usually lasts four to six months, giving our Fellows the opportunity to discover whether HuffPost is the right place to launch their career.
This is a paid program providing experience and training from beginning to end. We focus on teaching our Fellows everything there is to know about how the Huffington Post approaches web publishing. This program is based in AOL’s New York office in Greenwich Village.
· Huffington Post Tech
Design Intern
Time frame: Fall 2013
Location: New York, NY
Schedule: 3-5 days per week
Job Description:
The Huffington Post is looking for a design intern to work closely with our HuffPost web & mobile team as well as our Huffington weekly magazine design team. This is a paid internship, 3-5 days per week.
About the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 46 million monthly unique visitors (comScore December, 2012) posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan.
About the Role:
HuffPost Religion is hiring a Fellow to join our team and work on our award-winning religion site and social media accounts. The Fellow will be integrated into the team with opportunities to learn and grow professionally in a fast-paced, intelligent, fun and slightly obsessed environment.
A good candidate will be a self-starter with writing experience, and will be passionate about the web with a serious interest in how religion news is shared and traditions are expressed online. A good candidate should have familiarity with a range of spiritual traditions and religions and a passion for how religious beliefs, holidays and practices can be presented online in a compelling way that ‘wins’ the Internet.
Requirements for success:
– Insatiable appetite for religion online and the desire to make a positive impact on the web
– Strong research and writing skills
– Proficiency and experience in leveraging social media for maximum benefit
– Meticulous dedication to detail and the ability to multitask
– Creativity and a willingness to think outside the box
Basic responsibilities will include:
– Writing headlines, packaging stories and video content
– Monitoring breaking news and identifying potentially viral religion stories
– Working in a fast-paced environment with the religion team
– Pitching and producing shareable content for a social media audience
This fellowship is located in our New York City office in the heart of Greenwich Village. Our fellowship usually lasts four to six months and is a paid program that we use to identify potential full-time hires — in other words, fellows are considered to be in training from the moment they begin. Our program ensures that fellows learn everything there is to know about how the Huffington Post approaches web publishing. Fellows have the chance discover whether HuffPost is the sort of place you want to launch your career.
About the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 46 million monthly unique visitors (comScore December, 2012) posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan.
About the Role: College Editor, HuffPost
The Huffington Post is looking for a smart, passionate individual to lead its efforts to connect with students on college campuses and help cultivate a community of students. Do you love the internet, social media and viral content? Are you interested in a wide range of subject areas that range from serious to satirical? Then you might be a perfect fit for the Huffington Post.
The Huffington Post has an opening for an editorial intern for the Weddings vertical based in Los Angeles. We are looking for an energetic, detail-oriented, efficient, and web savvy intern to join our team. This is great opportunity to learn all the ins and outs of new media and get first-hand exposure to how The Huffington Post works. The position would mostly revolve around content creation, and the intern would have an opportunity to pitch article ideas.
- Researching, writing and copy editing original content
- Pitching and writing original story ideas
- Suggesting stories for aggregation
- Other general assignments working closely with HuffPost Wedding editors and reporters
Requirements for Success
- Internet junkies are welcome- the more you love devouring online content, the better! We are looking for the type of candidate who can spot viral content- before it goes viral!
This internship is located in our Los Angeles, CA office, and is a full time, paid internship- 40/hrs per week, $10.00/hr.
The Huffington Post is seeking an experienced associate editor for its expanding social impact platforms, specifically its Good News vertical, Global Motherhood and ImpactX programs. As associate editor of these sections, you will specialize in aggregating news stories, and thinking of out-the-box ideas for viral content; you will spend your time curating our social media channels, interacting and reaching out to potential bloggers, interacting with various partners to optimize their content, and building slideshows and photo galleries. You will also assist with the overall editorial management of these sections and be required to occasionally edit stories. Additionally, you will be required to research and strategize ideas for upcoming social impact platforms.
About HuffPost Social Impact: The Huffington Post's Social Impact platforms currently include its Good News, Global Motherhood, ImpactX, What Is Working: Small Business and TEDWeekends sections. Combining revenue-generating sponsorships with top-notch reporting, features and blogs, these programs are devoted to promoting a wide variety of causes, both in the United States and around the world. This is a rapidly expanding part of The Huffington Post with a gamut of additional programs set to be launched in the next several months.
Requirements:
Candidates MUST have 3-4 years of editorial experience in a professional setting, preferably for a news website. They must have exceptional writing and reporting skills and be familiar with content management systems. Experience with social media, search engine optimization and HTML also a must. The ability to work independently and multi-task effectively are also prerequisites to working at a fast-paced organization such as this one. An interest in the social good, non profit and social innovation arenas is preferred but not required.
About the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 46 million monthly unique visitors (comScore December, 2012) posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, Italy, and Japan.
About the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post is a Pulitzer Prize-winning source of breaking news, features, and entertainment, as well as a highly engaged community for opinion and conversation. The Huffington Post has 50 million monthly unique visitors (comScore November, 2012) posting more than 8 million comments each month. The site has more than 40,000 bloggers -- from politicians, students and celebrities to academics, parents and policy experts -- who contribute in real-time on the subjects they are most passionate about. The Huffington Post has editions in the UK, Canada, Quebec, France, Spain, and Italy with Japan and more scheduled to launch in the coming months.
The Team
The Huffington Post Operations team manages the day-to-day and long-term initiatives related to advertising inventory monetization and campaign operations, content publishing and native advertising products, consumer and audience research and analytics, and executive business metrics and reporting. This team reports to the CEO of The Huffington Post, Jimmy Maymann, and is tasked with driving critical business initiatives for revenue growth.
The Role:
In this high-impact role, you’ll report to the Vice President, Operations of The Huffington Post Media Group. You will use your well-honed business, operational and technical acumen to act as a thought leader and project manager driving critical cross-functional advertising operations initiatives and interfacing with our internal Edit, Technology, Legal and Sales and Marketing teams.
This may involve, specifically:
Qualifications:
You are:
Required experience and knowledge:
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At AOL we’re focused on radically redefining the world of online communications. We are transforming how people around the globe connect with information, entertainment and one another by bringing together award winning journalists and innovative technologies to create rich and engaging consumer experiences. We look for people who are exceptionally imaginative, collaborative, and truly excited about our mission - to inform, entertain and connect the world.
AOL is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other classification prescribed by applicable law.
The Huffington Post is seeking editorial fellows to join its New York office. Do you consume the majority of your entertainment and news digitally? Are you the person who has a new viral video before everyone else? Are you obsessive about social media? Then you might be a perfect fit for the Huffington Post.
Applicants should be ambitious self-starters eager to learn and contribute in a fast-paced, fun environment. We are looking for go-getter news and internet junkies to work closely with various editorial teams. This is a great opportunity to learn all the ins and outs of new media and get first-hand exposure to the inner workings of The
Huffington Post.
Core Fellow experiences:
- Writing headlines, packaging stories and video content
- Monitoring breaking news and identifying viral stories
- Pitching and producing shareable content for a social media audience
- Aiding in managing Facebook and Twitter accounts
Requirements for success:
- Insatiable appetite for news and information
- Strong research and writing skills
- Enamored with the power and influence of social media
- Meticulous dedication to detail and the ability to multitask
- Creativity and confidence to share your unique perspective and ideas
- Ability to receive constructive criticism professionally, and quickly apply the feedback
- A demonstrated excitement about HuffPost’s editorial mission
The HuffPost Fellowship usually lasts four to six months, giving our Fellows the opportunity to discover whether HuffPost is the right place to launch their career.
This is a paid program providing experience and training from beginning to end. We focus on teaching our Fellows everything there is to know about how the Huffington Post approaches web publishing. This program is based in AOL’s New York office in Greenwich Village.
Title: Flash Developer, HPMG UK (London)
Purpose of role & AccountabilitiesWorking within the Branded Content and Creative Solutions team this is a varied role, developing and designing engaging ad formats and creative executions for a wide range of advertisers across the AOL and Huffington Post sites.
Day to day job tasks will include designing and building custom rich media ads and bespoke sponsorship creative as well helping the team brainstorm concepts and mock up ideas.
Experience across Adobe Creative suite including Flash AS3 is essential as well as front-end coding, languages and principles.
The ideal candidate will have a very good level of experience in an agency environment and hold a degree in a relevant subject.
They must be able to demonstrate a strong eye for creative, and conceptualization, as well as discipline in terms or working to a deadline and accurately reflecting brand guidelines. Ideally we need someone with a creative flair but also aren’t scared to get mucky in a bit of coding!
If this sounds like you please get in touch!
Examples of creative work from the team:
M&S
http://bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com/bannerfarm/v2/uk/adexamples/mandsadventhpto.html
Madagascar
http://bannerfarm.ace.advertising.com/bannerfarm/v2/uk/adexamples/madagascarhpto.html
Discover LA (Devil format)
http://advertising.aol.co.uk/showcase/devil/gallery/inpage/?adid=8824448&pagetemplate=homepage
Person Requirements
Experience in the following is required
• Photoshop
• Flash (and ActionScript 2/3)
• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS
Desirable skills are as follows:
• XML
• JSON
• UX
• UI
• Video editing
Qualifications
• BA/BSc degree in a related subject (graphic design/digital design/web design)
Company Overview
AOL Huffington Post Media Group UK is a division of AOL Huffington Post Media Group International that is responsible for AOL’s consumer media businesses outside of North America. AOL Huffington Post Media Group UK includes the editorial business operations of AOL’s consumer media business In UK, which include The Huffington Post UK, MyDaily, Parentdish and the AOL UK network of sites.
AOL UK is a top five digital media company in terms of audience, top three in IPA Media Owner Effectiveness Awards, and has continued to grow its rankings in each editorial vertical building brands such as MyDaily into the UK’s biggest women’s fashion and beauty site.
AOL has in excess of 11m unique visitors in the UK each month. The Huffington Post UK was launched in July 2011 and has already surpassed 2.5m unique visitors per month. The Huffington Post in the US was launched in 2006 and quickly grew to become one of America’s most respected online newspapers.
Further Information
At AOL we’re focused on radically redefining the world of online communications. We are transforming how people around the globe connect with information, entertainment and one another by bringing together award winning journalists and innovative technologies to create rich and engaging consumer experiences. We look for people who are exceptionally imaginative, collaborative, and truly excited about our mission - to inform, entertain and connect the world.
AOL is an equal opportunity employers and does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, political persuasion or trade union membership.