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Video Editor & YouTube Strategist
Viki
San Mateo, CA, United States
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Viki, a Rakuten Company (Japan Stock Exchange: 4755), is a global TV site with more than tens of millions of viewers a month watching the world’s primetime TV and movies, subtitled in over 200 languages by a community of fans. With billions of videos viewed and more than 1 billion words translated, Viki brings global entertainment to fans everywhere.
Viki is seeking a smart, hard-working and passionate Video Editor & YouTube Strategist to join our fun, globally minded team in San Mateo. Reporting to the Social Media Manager, this is a 3 month contract-to-hire position. This is a great opportunity to focus on the core of the business, content creation. We are seeking a candidate who can crack the YouTube code, specifically for Viki. This person should be a YouTube fanatic and will strategize the best practices for our brand and content to excel on YouTube. We want someone who will identify the trends around what content works and why, using data and objective analysis. This person will keep his/her eye on the pulse and keep teams up to speed on creative, copy and keywords that are gaining the most impressions on YouTube. This YouTube strategist will also cut clips from our content to flood YouTube (and social media) and will oversee our YouTube DMCA and compliance efforts. When someone searches for content, our goal is to have Viki be the primary brand seen online while keeping piracy in check.
If you’re organized, strategic, learn quickly and multi-task like a champ, we want to hear from you! Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
• Analyze trends on how clips are performing on YouTube
• Make recommendations on what clips are performing best and why
• Create copy and recommend new copy and keywords based on best performers
• Work with Growth Manager to boost best performing clips
• Create promotional clips from Viki’s premium content assets for display on YouTube and other social media outlets
• Oversee DMCA compliance on YouTube, including managing takedown strategy and contractors
Qualifications
• An Associate's or Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Video Production or related field
• Experience managing content, preferably on YouTube
• Video editing experience which includes cutting promos and trailers
• Vast knowledge of the following tools: Final Cut Pro (or Adobe Premier) Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
• Ability to provide deliverables on multiple projects at a time
• Great portfolio and excellent references
• Experience in post production video editing
• Experience with asset management of photos and videos with networked redundant backups
• Demonstrated interest in understanding and identifying industry trends
Bonus Points
• Experience with motion graphics, video compression and streaming video
• Love of world cultures, international TV and film
We are a small but diverse company, with more than 25 nationalities and 40 languages represented among our 100+ employees. Come help us break down barriers that stand between great entertainment and fans everywhere and help us make a difference as we grow.
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