A proven innovator in developing customized, high impact advertising programs, UGO Entertainment has earned a reputation for creativity, execution and unparalleled customer service among its world-class client base.
The company operates from its headquarters in New York City.
AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
UGO
Entertainment is seeking an enthusiastic, resourceful and results-driven
Audience Development Manager to attract new users and drive traffic to the most
timely, relevant and best performing content published across UGO’s network of
owned and operated web sites, mobile applications and off-site
destinations. This position requires extensive knowledge of online
marketing/distribution strategies and tactics. The successful candidate
will demonstrate a proven track record of heroic traffic driving achievements.
Responsibilities:
· Attract new users to UGO’s owned & operated websites:
o Coordinate and execute UGO’s social media content strategy, manage efforts to acquire traffic from crowd-sourced traffic sources and maintain and evolve UGO’s link exchange partnerships.
o Track and optimize existing syndication relationships, identify new opportunities, and collaborate with senior business development leadership to execute new content distribution partnerships.
o Own daily and long term SEO strategy and implementation as it relates to editorial feature development. Leverage keyword research, competitive analysis and SEO link building campaigns to establish new SEO footholds for the company.
· Increase engagement, page view consumption and on/off-site video streams:
o Aggressively grow fans and followers on the company’s social outposts
o Program, monitor and optimize in-network promotional levers and company’s email newsletters.
o Evaluate performance of 3rd party integrations and seek out new tools that increase page view consumption, time on site and user retention
o Identify new opportunities to drive growth of the company’s viral video assets, and build subscribers to the company’s video-viewing destinations on YouTube, Metacafe, 5Min, Vimeo and other sites.
· Provide business intelligence around audience development and content performance for editors and regular reporting and analysis for the executive team.
Qualifications:
· 5 to 7 years of online marketing experience for a publisher/online media brand is a MUST.
· Demonstrated engagement and experience, including building personal networks of friends, fans and followers.
· Solid understanding of all digital media community vehicles including blogs, wikis, widgets, RSS feeds, and apps.
· Ability to perform in-depth quantitative analysis and communicate findings.
· Strong understanding of Web analytics, preferably Omniture SiteCatalyst.
· Subject matter expertise in Search Engine Optimization
GAMES EDITOR – 1UP.COM
The Games Editor will be a
member of 1UP’s editorial team, and will be responsible for working with the
rest of 1UP’s staff, developing and executing story ideas, and planning
day-to-day content related to video games and the game industry. This
position is based in the San Francisco office.
Key Responsibilities
· Writing creative, memorable, researched, and newsworthy previews, reviews, news stories, blog posts, and features
· Generating both quick-turnaround stories and ambitious story ideas
· Working with freelancers and other staff members to post content on a daily basis
· Editing content on a daily basis
· Arranging coverage with game PR/developers
Requirements
· Deep knowledge of games and the game industry -- from the companies involved, to the people who make games, to how the industry works, to the industry’s history, to what games are coming on the horizon
· Strong grasp of the English language and grammar rules
· Solid organization and communication skills
· A desire to produce better editorial coverage than you commonly see online
· Willing to travel to cover events
DIGITAL MEDIA (ENTERTAINMENT/VIDEO GAME)
We are currently seeking an Account Executive to join the West Coast Sales team in San Francisco. This is a great opportunity to have a direct impact on the day-to-day business of a leading interactive media organization.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain & grow designated list of running accounts and prospect new business in the Pacific Northwest region (SF, Portland, Seattle)
- Identify client & agency digital media buying decision makers and develop relationships at all levels through high volume of face to face calls.
- Stay current on digital media & entertainment industry trends, possess deep understanding of customer's product(s) and specific marketing needs, and have the ability to leverage all information to maximize revenue.
- Assemble strategic digital advertising programs across UGO Entertainment properties to meet client objectives.
- Work closely with internal support teams to insure successful campaign execution.
Required Experience:
- Entertainment/Videogame Industry knowledge and experience is a MUST.
- 5 years in digital media, including minimum 2 years proven sales experience & success
- Established working relationships/contacts with Advertising Agencies in San Francisco & Pacific Northwest.
- Strong leader, goal-oriented, sales-driven, team-player media professional
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
- Excellent presentation development & delivery skills.
- BA/BS degree or equivalent training & experience.
Editorial Intern
We're currently seeking undergraduate interns to join our Editorial team on the frontlines of fantasy entertainment. This is a great opportunity for a prospective writer/editor to learn the daily responsibilities and skills of a crack Editorial team for an Enterprise-class website.Interns will run a track of apprenticeship under our expert channel editors, learning the publish process from budget meeting inception, through search engine optimization and social media execution. The program has rolling dates, and we are willing to work with a qualified candidate's schedule.
IMPORTANT: This is an unpaid position. Only current students available for course credit need apply.
Job Responsibilities Include:
- Assist editors in all facets of content production
- Assemble photo galleries from studios, wire services and various outlets
- Building news and feature articles with supplied assets, learning best practices and valuable search engine optimization training
- Transcriptions, some Photoshop work and social media outreach
- Write the occasional post incorporating everything you've
learned
- A cohesive understanding of the gaming and entertainment news space - we want talented fans
- Familiarity with AP style and an ability to write and edit coherent copy at a professional pace
- HTML, Photoshop, Microsoft Word on PC and the Internet at
large
- Know what you're talking about - you will be quizzed
- Have an opinion - justify your take on why Vader can kill Gandalf eloquently
- Have some knowledge of HTML and Web production
- Familiarity with blogging platforms or experience with web publishing systems
- Alternate universes, graphic novels, concerts tees and other
nerdery a plus
Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
Java Developer- Consultant
UGO Entertainment, a unit of the Hearst Corporation, has been exclusively online for over ten years, creating quality lifestyle content for Gamers. The company's flagship website, UGO.com, and its owned and operated properties engage a massive audience of over 35 million monthly unique visitors with a distinctive editorial voice and a passion for all things central to the Gamer lifestyle: Movies, TV shows, Music, Comics, Technology, Gadgets, Gear, Girls, Sports, and of course, Games.We have earned a strong reputation as a trusted publisher; delivering customized, high impact and high touch online advertising programs for our world-class client base. We focus on attracting the coveted 18-34 male demographic. The company operates from its headquarters in New York City.
We're currently seeking a contract bases strong Perl developer who will be an integral part of a development team building our next generation web-publishing platform. This platform utilizes Perl, HTML: Mason and MySQL. Additionally, there is some legacy content that requires knowledge of PHP coding. The ability to quickly understand requirements, documentation and contribute code towards various project deliverables in a timely and professional manner is required.
Core Skills: JAVA J2EE, STRUTS, Hibernate, JSP/JSTL, SQL
Responsibilities:
Assist writing server side code for the 1up Java based CMS platform, creating reliable, scalable code and working as a member of a larger programming/engineering team and acting as team lead for smaller projects.
Ability to interact and gather requirements for product development from editorial and creative team members.
Able to coordinate with project managers for timely deliverables for yourself and team.
Requirements:
- A good understanding of thread synchronization and concurrency without relying on a framework.
- An understanding of how asynchronous event models work. What an event is in relation to a listener and its broadcast mechanism.
- Hibernate best practices. Triggers for proxy hydration and triggers for cache evictions.
- Thorough knowledge of the Java programming language and standard Java APIs.
- SQL knowledge such as performance considerations for indexing, joins, grouping, etc.
- The ability to design subsystems, refactor existing code and work independently.
- Best practices for object oriented programming (OOP) such as: polymorphism, inheritance, delegation, encapsulation, and specialization.
- Performance characteristics of Java standard data-structures.
- Basic HTTP request/response server architecture knowledge.
- Ability to lead a development team on smaller projects
Experience working in distributed environments (server cluster), knowledge of IBatis, Javascript, AJAX, JQuery are bonuses.
If you're interested, submit your resume with cover letter to jobs@ugo.com. Please include "Java Developer" in the subject line of your message.
Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
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