Multimedia Producer

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox TV Stations

FOX Television Stations owns and operates 29 full power broadcast television stations in the U.S. These include stations located in 14 of the top 15 largest designated market areas, or DMAs, and duopolies in 11 DMAs, including the three largest DMAs (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago). Of these stations, 18 are affiliated with the FOX Network. In addition to distributing sports, entertainment and syndicated content, our television stations collectively produce approximately 1,200 hours of local news every week. These stations leverage viewer, distributor and advertiser demand for the FOX Network’s national content.

JOB DESCRIPTION

FOX Chicago is seeking a Multimedia Producer to own the lifecycle of our Creative Services Department's digital video production projects and contribute to the Station's digital audience engagement marketing strategy. The Multimedia Producer will be responsible for planning, producing, editing, and optimizing digital shows, documentaries, and segments for our connected TV (CTV app), website, YouTube, TikTok, and other social media platforms. You may find yourself directing a live show on Digital or shooting and editing a documentary.

You will also play a significant role in our digital audience engagement, helping to grow our brand and promote various shows and on-air.

Do you love creating compelling talent on social media and being on the cusp of emerging trends? When it comes to data, you are excited to spot trends and use it to improve the digital content and brand experience to grow the audience.

The Multimedia Producer works with the Creative Department and the FOX Chicago Digital Team to produce a variety of content and campaigns, ranging from digital and social content promoting the Station’s talent, brand, and products to producing daily live shows, specials and monthly shows for CTV. This position reports to the FOX Chicago VP, Programming & Development. The role requires a creative self-starter with deep understanding of digital and social media content marketing and longform video production with a knack for tracking and analyzing audience data to adjust and execute strategies, keeping audience engagement, brand pillars, and an exceptional user experience top of mind.

Primary responsibilities:

• Work with Creative Department, Audience Development Manager, Digital content producers, talent and production teams to plan and execute digital audience engagement and promotional campaigns.

• Pitch, storyboard, shoot, produce, edit, and optimize long form video for CTV app FOX

Local specials, shows, documentaries, and segments for YouTube

• Plan, produce, edit, and post short form or graphic-based social media content for brand

and show promotion campaigns for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook Reels

• Act as a steward and advocate for the overall FOX Chicago brand and audience across all

platforms

• Program the FOX LOCAL/CTV stream schedule and interface with the user experience in

mind

• Produce shows that may simulcast on Digital and Linear

• Work with Audience Development Manager to analyze data for audience engagement, audience experience, and measure video content and campaign KPI success across platforms

• Contribute to digital news, video producer daily duties as needed and provide linear

promotional support occasionally

Skills:

• Experience editing short and long form video content and promotions for digital

platforms

• Demonstrated aptitude for strong and engaging storytelling across a variety of mediums

• Knowledge of content marketing and creation best practices for YouTube, TikTok,

Instagram, etc.

• Knowledge of digital trends and video content creation best practices for YouTube,

TikTok, Instagram; experience with FAST channels/CTV a plus

• Strong news judgment and knowledge of current events and social media trends

• Video-focused search engine optimization (SEO) and content optimization knowledge

• Video camera photography, audio, and lighting experience

• Video storytelling and storyboarding

• Strong writing and copy-editing skills

• Video and graphics edits in Premiere, Photoshop, After Effects

• Digital content and audience data analysis: Experience with Adobe Analytics, Tableau,

and/or Excel or Sheets tracking and analysis preferred

• Excellent organization, communication, and project management

Qualifications:

• 2-3 years shooting/editing, reporting or producing in a TV or digital news video production

environment

• Degree in communications, media, journalism, or similarly applicable areas of study

• Must submit portfolio with clips of long and short form digital video content

• Schedule flexibility is a necessity in the case of breaking news on nights

and weekends.