Content Manager
China’s leading news app company seeks English content manager
Overview
- Location: Beijing
- Industry: Internet Services
- Employer: Bytedance Inc
Job Description
Bytedance, a leading internet company that has created China’s most popular newsfeed app 今日头条, is looking for media professionals to join as content managers. You can check out our app by searching “TopBuzz” in your App Store or Google Play.
Job Responsibilities:
- Monitor the web daily for the latest news and trending stories and identify quality news sources
- Send push notifications to users and manage your channel around the clock
- Review websites, YouTube channels and social media outlets based on content quality, popularity
- Write excellent and hooking titles and other copies
- Analyze performance statistics to identify problems and improve content strategy
Qualifications:
- At least 1 year’s professional experience in journalism/digital media/communications/PR related fields (if you don’t have that much experience, feel free to apply as an intern)
- A good understanding what content engages people and the trends among different demographic groups
- A heavy user of social media apps such as Instagram, VINE, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and many more up and coming apps.
- A heavy consumer of content from all kinds of outlets such as BuzzFeed, CNN, TheVerge, VOX, VICE and more
- Excellent English reading and writing proficiency. Good spoken/written Chinese is preferrable but not required.
- A constant drive to identify problems and solve them with creativity and strategies
- Flexibility with work hours (we rotate shifts.)
- A sharp sense for data and charts is highly desirable
To Apply: please send resumes and 2 writing samples to miaosi@bytedance.com. Writing samples should reflect your past writing experience and styles. PDFs, web links and graphics are all accepted.