Programming Channel Editor, Sports

Full Time Job
Pluto TV, a Paramount company, is the leading free streaming television service in America, delivering 250 live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Pluto TV is available on all mobile, web and connected TV streaming devices and millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital series. Headquartered in West Hollywood, Pluto TV has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago and Berlin.

About Paramount

Paramount creates entertainment experiences that drive conversation and culture around the world. Through television, film, digital media, live events, merchandise and solutions, our brands connect with diverse, young, and the young at heart audiences in more than 180 countries.

Working for the Programming Team, the Channel Editor, Sports 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.
• Working live events and managing scheduling changes etc associated with live content
• Knowledge of best practices in metadata creation and copywriting.
• Crafting appropriate assets that follow the current events of the news world.
• 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 Sports/Live Sports 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.

Citizenship

Citizens of Pluto TV have the privilege of entertaining millions of people. We are entrepreneurs looking to revolutionize the future of TV. While our planet is small, our ambition is boundless. The stakes don€™t get much higher.

Becoming a Citizen is hard work. We need self-starters that thrive in changing environments, who treat company resources like their own, and who deliver seemingly impossible outcomes at warp speed. It€™s the only way we stay ahead of the giants looking to take the opportunity we have earned. We are selective but once chosen, you€™re in.

Why You Should Become a Citizen of Pluto TV

As stated, becoming a Citizen is hard work but the rewards of citizenship are plentiful. Work with the smartest people on some of the most complex projects of your life, while profoundly impacting both Pluto TV and the broader world of entertainment. Share in the epic quest to define the future of television as we know it. Big commitment, big impact, lasting change.

As a Citizen, you will enjoy generously-sponsored medical benefits, a generous vacation policy, 401K retirement plan, social and team events, and more!