Overview

Position Title:Digital Editor

Company:ITV

Location:Portsmouth, UK

Job Description:

The Group Technology Services teams are charged with ensuring a quality operational service across all the tools and systems, and with delivering ongoing improvements and upgrades in line with business priorities. Group Technology is central to our overall technology strategy and ensures we have the tools and tech to be Britain’s largest and most loved broadcaster.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for driving the teams’ technical roadmap, you will collaborate closely with our strategy leads to translate stories into code
  • Assist teams with the design of systems and pipelines to keep up with ITV’s large datasets
  • Take ownership from services to monitoring, maintenance and incident management
  • Support a strong engineering culture that provides technical innovation and professional development
  • Lead from the front – ensuring that your team follows our engineering best practices

Requirements:

  • Proven experience of growing digital audiences for a daily news or newspaper website
  • Knowledge and enthusiasm for the local news agenda
  • Experience of producing high-quality, accurate and distinctive digital news to tight deadlines and under pressure.
  • The ability to ensure copy is accurate and brilliantly presented, writing sharp, digital-friendly headlines and making use of the best pictures, video and other multimedia assets to drive engagement.
  • Proven track record of dealing with breaking news and developing stories.
  • A solid understanding of digital publishing including best use of SEO, social media and the ability to understand and act on Google Analytics data.
  • A confident decision maker with strong knowledge of media law & compliance and the ability to exercise excellent editorial judgment.
  • Experience of successfully working with multiple people and projects, with the ability to prioritise.
  • Evidence of putting equality and representation at the heart of everything you do
  • Passionate about digital publishing
  • A clear understanding Ofcom’s standards, as any content produced by ITV must meet industry regulation
  • Experience of working effectively as part of a team

About ITV

It’s an exciting time to join ITV. With the largest commercial family of channels in the UK and with our global footprint growing, we’re about to take not only our business, but also broadcasting, as we know it, to a whole new level.