Creative Producer

This is a Full Time Job

Overview / Role Details:

KDKA-TV Pittsburg's mission is to make our communities a better place to live through positive, optimistic solution-based journalism.

As a Creative Producer in the Creative Services Department, you would be a critical part of building our brand and spreading this message every day.

With a focus on driving engagement and viewership, you will develop daily content marketing that helps grow our brand across screens. You thrive on generating innovative ideas for linear, digital, and streaming (OTT) platforms. You know the difference between audiences on YouTube vs. Instagram and Facebook's platforms, and how to be memorable on each. You are also a great collaborator working across all teams at CBS Pittsburg.

KDKA-TV Pittsburg is building the Creative Team of the future. We're looking for someone who is multi-skilled, takes risks and has pride in finding phenomenal ways to effectively connect with our audience.

Responsibilities include:
• Write, produce, and edit daily marketing messages that help grow the brand.
• Generate and post creative social media messaging and OTT marketing on-a-daily basis to drive viewership to our newscasts.
• Attend/contribute to daily news planning meetings onsite
• Generate and complete ideas to improve workflow and build efficiency within the department
• Assist with other department projects including brand development and content-creation
• Assist with station community events and activations
• Coordinate and lead all aspects of video production projects from start to finish including idea generation, scripting, production planning and coordination, directing crew and talent, and post-production supervision.
• Available to work nights and the occasional weekend as needed

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in media, journalism or marketing
• 2 years of experience in production

Additional Qualifications:

• Proven excellent writing skills and the ability to produce effective promos with great copy and use of elements
• Experience creating assets for digital platforms.
• Experience in television news and/or news promotion is required.
• Strong video editing skills.
• Videography, lighting, studio, and location production skills are a plus.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced news environment and control deadline pressures.
• Ability to work cohesively and collaboratively with on-site news producers, production staff and our outside media agency
• Requires onsite work in support of the daily newscast.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite; Familiarity in iNEWS and WideOrbit a plus.
• Writing samples and portfolio are required.

CBS News and Stations, brings together the power of CBS News, 28 owned television stations in 17 major U.S. markets, the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS News Streaming local platforms, local websites and cbsnews.com, under one umbrella. CBS News and Stations is home to the nation's #1 news program 60 MINUTES, the CBS News Streaming Network, the first 24/7 digital streaming news network, the award-winning broadcasts CBS MORNINGS, CBS SATURDAY MORNING, the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH NORAH O'DONNELL, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, CBS WEEKEND EVENING NEWS, 48 HOURS and FACE THE NATION WITH MARGARET BRENNAN. CBS News and Stations provides news and information for the CBS Television Network, CBSNews.com, CBS News Radio and podcasts, Paramount , all digital platforms, and the CBS News Streaming Network, the premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service that is available free to everyone with access to the internet. The CBS News Streaming Network is the destination for breaking news, live events, original reporting and storytelling, and programs from CBS News and Stations' top anchors and correspondents working locally, nationally and around the globe. CBS News' streaming services, across national and local, amassed more than 1.01 billion strea