About React Media
We are creatives on a mission to examine and celebrate global culture through colorful, fresh perspectives and honest human stories.
React Media is a pioneering multi-platform media company creating authentic, culturally impactful content to a massive millennial + Gen Z audience and highly engaged community of over 67 million unique people monthly.
Based in Burbank, CA, React Media’s award-winning studio creates widely popular short-form and long-form video programming that generate over 300 million views per month.
Our legacy digital brands include REACT, REPLAY, People vs Food, and Try Not To with new verticals slated to launch in 2021.
Position Summary
This position reports to the Head of Current Creative and works closely with the creative and production team members.
This role is freelance, expectations are for them to join development meetings, pitch series/episodes, if greenlit they will work with the internal production team to produce their content for React Media’s O&O channels.
React Media is a documentarian of all things internet and pop culture.
We are looking for an experienced digital creative who loves the internet and pop culture as much as we do.
Someone who is capable of executing stellar short form content from pitch to launch.
The ideal candidate is a thorough researcher that is excited to dig in, use what they learn to write, and shepherd concepts from the spark of an idea to a polished video.
They are collaborative, enthusiastic, and love to create.
A Good Fit Will Be
Someone with incredible passion for digital entertainment and short form storytelling.
A consumer of social media who enjoys following –
– and maybe participating in –
– trends on the various social platforms.
Someone who participates!
A person who voices their perspective and listens to others.
A person who is comfortable sharing and receiving feedback!
They are willing to put it on the table: Some conversations will be uncomfortable, but everyone will be better for having had them The kind of person who shows up for others.
When someone needs help, they are the type of person who volunteers Someone who recognize others’ contributions and can celebrate team success Someone who checks in with teammates and colleagues to understand their perspectives and needs on a given project
Key Responsibilities
Pitching and developing shows that speak to React Media’s audience, across platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat and more!
Work with the Executive Producers and Head of Programming and the company’s creative and production teams to help create original shows and formats that are innovative and aligned with the goals of their distribution channels Writing, producing, directing, and overseeing post-production of their greenlit projects Ensure output of high-quality content that entertains and/or educates Works to hit deadlines and communicates so that they are being met by all team members in the creation process Works with internal teams to prepare and stick to an episode/series budgets and reports financials appropriately Collaborating in regular creative pitch & development sessions to ensure tone and voice of work aligns with React Media’s as well as adheres to platform standards and practices Reviewing and digesting episode/series analytics to understand how to shape and improve future potential creative Communicate with points of contact, as well as asking for assistance and guidance Maintaining department documentation and communicating changes to all relevant team members
Qualifications
Experience in creating digital content is a must (please share your website/body of work/reel) Experience physically writing, directing, and producing content
– understanding of how budgets meet creative ideas A portfolio of successful digital/linear content you have created Strong working knowledge of social platforms (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, TikTok etc.) Strong awareness of YouTube & internet culture, memes, vernacular, pop culture etc.
The intuition for creating compelling and entertaining content, identify the ingredients that make a hit show and utilizing available resources with maximum efficiency Excellent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills Strong administrative skills and familiarity with all G Suite Applications
– working knowledge of Slack, and Frame.io are a plus Ability to ensure all deadlines are met appropriately, and that communication flows freely
React Media’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
We are creatives on a mission to examine and celebrate global culture through colorful, fresh perspectives and honest human stories.
React Media is a pioneering multiplatform media company creating authentic, culturally impactful content to a massive millennial + Gen Z audience and highly engaged community of reaching over 67 million unique people monthly.
Based in Burbank, CA, React Media’s award-winning studio creates widely popular short-form and long-form video programming formats that generate over 300 million views per month.
Our legacy brands include:
REACT
– Entertainment, Pop and Internet Culture & Human Reaction
PEOPLE VS FOOD
– Humans + Food, Food & More Food!
(COMING SOON)
– Science, Education & Exploration
A media company, production company, and new breed of TV network, React Media creates innovative and entertaining programming for a global audience across both owned and operated and partner channels.
React Media creates original content across multiple genres: scripted, non-scripted, animated, sketch, interactive, branded entertainment, VR, along with their well-known React shows, which helped define an entire genre of online video.
As a production company, it has created and produced shows for television networks and premium SVODs including TruTV, Nickelodeon, Freeform, YouTube Premium and Facebook Watch, as well as always having several shows sold into development to major digital and traditional networks including feature film “F The Prom” that is available on Netflix.
The company has a constant flow of partnerships on shows being developed for television and original branded content.
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