Content Development Executive - Daily Essentials
What's Quibi?
Launching next year, Quibi is the first entertainment platform that fits perfectly into any moment of your day. We’re on a mission to entertain, inform and inspire with fresh content from today’s top talent—one quick bite at a time. Founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, Quibi brings together the best of Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
Every day, we’re defining the next era of storytelling while reinventing what a start-up can look like. Our trailblazing team is laser focused on our core audience, producingawe-inspiring shows for an intuitive, mobile-first platform, and creating a culture where everyone is heard. Yes, it’s a tall order—and that’s what makes it so exciting. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and build something from the ground up, working here will never be just a job.
Summary:
Quibi has an immediate opening for a media executive to oversee the development and production of premium, short-form content for daily essentials.
What You'll Do:
- Work with a team of executives to identify, develop and oversee original Daily Essentials programming for more than a dozen potential categories
- Identify content trends and pitch shows to ensure Quibi is the leader in premium short form video
- Oversee creation and maintenance of partner RFPs, pitch materials, decks, and sizzle reels
- Build and maintain relationships with partners, producers, directors and production companies
- Communicate the development process to the creative and network community
- Work with product design and engineering teams to maximize the user experience of
- watching content created for mobile first
- Engage with Creative, Finance, Legal, Business Affairs, Product, Strategy, Post and external partners to ensure production of high quality content is delivered on time, on budget and as creatively envisioned
- Work closely, collaboratively and professionally with external partners to vet budgets and schedules
What You'll Need:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
- 5-10 years of experience developing and creating content with a digital video publisher, broadcast network, production company or related experience
- Vivid imagination and endless curiosity
- Team-player mentality, assertive, enthusiastic, highly motivated, and collaborative
- Strong relationships with content creators, agents, producers, and managers; ability to foster and build new relationships
- Strong storytelling and hands-on production skills
- Knowledge of, and deep interest in, content and target millennial demographic (target
- 25-35)
- Know how to ensure succinct, efficient and timely communication between external partners internal teams regarding all aspects of production, schedules and deadlines
- Ability to create workflows and systems that improve the production process for internal teams as well as external partners
- Willingness to work in Los Angeles and travel to New York