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Facebook Platform Manager

Remote from CA, PA, NJ, NY, DC, CT, VA, GA, OH, OR

Industry

Political News, Online Media

Duration

Ongoing

About TYT

TYT is America's largest online progressive news network and the #1 most engaged news and politics network. The award-winning network is one of the top multi-platform online content creators, generating over 500 million views a month.

Most recently TYT received the Audience Honor in the Shorty Awards for News and Media. The Damage Report with John Iadarola was recognized with the People’s Voice Webby Award in News and Politics. Additionally, Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey was recognized as the fastest growing TV news show by the Hicks Evaluation group. In 2021, TYT received the Audience Honor in the Shorty Awards for Best in Live Event Coverage for their coverage of the 2020 Election. The Damage Report with John Iadarola was a 2021 Webby Honoree for Social Media Presence. Dr. Richey was recently awarded with the Global Icon Award by the Black Media Honors and was recognized with an award by the White House for his work with gang-affected and gang-affiliated youth and social advocacy.

Cenk Uygur was recognized by Mediaite on their list of Most Influential in News Media 2021. Host Ana Kasparian was named to the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Media List and The Daily Dot’s 20 Women of YouTube list. The Young Turks was recognized with a Webby Honoree for News and Politics: Series and Channel, won the Audience Honor for Overall YouTube Presence in the 2018 Shorty Awards and the Webby People’s Voice Award for News and Politics - Series. Over the years, TYT has been recognized by the Streamys, Webbys, and Shorty Awards. The Young Turks was awarded the Imagen Vision Award and the Vote It Loud Fifth Estate: Champion in Media Award for Best in New Media in 2016. In 2015, The Young Turks was named to Variety’s FameChangers List (No. 7) and The Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen List (No. 1 in the News category).

TYT includes owned and operated and partner shows such as The Young Turks, The Damage Report, Indisputable, and more.

TYT’s 24/7 programming is available on YouTube TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Xumo, Twitch, Comcast Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex, Samsung TV Plus, TCL, Local Now, FuboTV, and more.

TYT is also available as a podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Amazon Music, and more.

Job Description

The Facebook Platform Manager will develop deep expertise and serve as the in-house expert on how to operate and grow business, on the platform. They will have a strong passion for learning, exploring, testing, and sharing platform capabilities and opportunities for TYT to improve performance. The Facebook Platform Manager will work independently and directly with representatives at the platform to learn about new / evolving platform features, and then make recommendations on which ones to deploy across TYT’s network of shows.

Primary Responsibilities

Serve as in-house expert on assigned platform by developing deep expertise on the features / capabilities that drive business growth (audience engagement, paid features, ad serving, analytic tools, community standards). Provide cross-department education on platform features. Develop and maintain relationship with platform representatives, and any third-party vendors, in order to learn about new / existing platform features and how to apply best practices for optimizing business performance. Track and report analysis of strategic initiatives. Identify and execute testing of third-party tools to improve performance. Support cross-functional strategic initiatives with Audience Development, Programming, Product, Marketing, and Operations by serving as subject matter expert on the platform. Shared accountability for achieving growth targets on the assigned platform. Understand key performance drivers and metrics and learn how various operations tactics impact results (e.g., viewership, engagement, watch time, revenue). Participate in training / certification programs offered by the platform and lead presentations to share the learnings internally with TYT teams Give guidance to Audience Development on testing opportunities and support the execution of tests originating from other departments.

Requirements

4+ years of previous experience managing or working directly with a Facebook page or network of pages. Experience with video distribution on Facebook. Technically proficient; interested and capable of learning new technologies. Strong leadership skills, including planning and delivery, constructive communication, conflict-resolution, and strategic thinking. Experience utilizing data for project management. Experience working within the business manager, evaluating performance, influencing content performance on the platform. A strong understanding of the platform’s analytic capabilities, how to extract and use the available data, very good comfort level analyzing the data and communicating findings. Driven by a strong desire to figure out how things work and how to drive performance results. Experience and comfort explaining complex platform features. Certification on the platform is a plus.

Additional

TYT is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Applying

[email protected], please include the job title “Platform Manager, Facebook” in the subject line of your email when applying.

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