Creative Producer

NEWJ (New Emerging World of Journalism Limited) is one of India’s fastest growing media-tech companies, founded by Shalabh Upadhyay and Kunal Chaudhary and backed by Jio Platforms Limited. It is a video-only, mobile-first publisher focused on creating and producing high impact video content for the smartphone obsessed young Indian.

Founded in 2018, the company’s mission is to tell stories that matter to India’s masses and remains committed to helping build a ‘Digital Bharat’ as well as grow the country’s Digital Knowledge Economy through impactful and India-centric storytelling. An important part of the mission is to reduce the urban-rural divide in India’s new media space by leveraging data and tech to serve one of the largest and fastest growing news markets in the world.

As a “social-first” publisher, NEWJ incorporates stories of all genres under an umbrella platform and is present in thirteen languages namely Hindi, English, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Urdu, and Malayalam. From politics (NEWJ Rajneeti) and entertainment (Filmy) to sports (Game On) and informative and explainer stories (Desified), NEWJ covers it all.

NEWJ aims to scale up its capabilities in visual storytelling with a focus on #BharatFirst and has aggregated over 16.9 billion views since inception reaching an audience of tens of millions across a dozen social media and OTT platforms. It offers its partners and clients 9 times higher engagement rate and 5.5 times higher view to audience ratio compared to average industry standards As many as 850 video stories produced by the ‘NEWJRoom’ have recorded over a million views each.

NEWJ was ranked 35th amongst the top 50 Global Digital Media Companies by Tubular Labs Ltd.

Who we’re looking for:

Creative Producer

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of creative projects, delivering them to agreed timelines and budgets
• Track and ensure the development of project-based documentation such as ideation decks, cost estimates, timing plans, production schedules, PPM documents and post-production briefs
• Lead clients and the internal team through project documentation such as ideation decks, scripts and PPM documents; ensuring they are completely informed on all aspects within the project
• Work closely with, and manage, project specialists such as creative, developers, UX, content producers (designers and copywriters)
• Assist in the sourcing and negotiation of specialist skill sets required for specific projects
• Work closely with the Creative Team Lead and Creative Director to ensure all projects run smoothly and are delivered to a high standard and on time

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 4-8 years of proven experience of project management and production
• A clear understanding and interest for all media channels, advertising and digital experience
• Experience in video production
• A good head for numbers – estimates and budget management are an important aspect of the role
• Outstanding people skills – a real team player who loves working collaboratively and has an instinct for liaising with creatives.
• High levels of organization with brilliant multi-tasking skills to manage multiple projects at once
• A self-starter with the ability to work independently