Associate Content Producer - Applied Science JobAssociate Content Producer - Applied Science
Job ID: 2013-14832
# of Positions:1
Posted Date:1/16/2013
Job Location:US-CA-San Francisco
Position Type :Regular Full Time
Category:Professional Development
Overview
Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.
Pearson, the world''s leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit .
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
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Responsibilities
Media Project Management
- Manage development of book-specific web sites and course management systems, interactive media, and online projects in coordination with book development and production from signing through go-live/release to make media an integral part of the book story.
- Manage schedule coordination, product design and implementation, and tracking of project details.
- Facilitate the creation of media for class-testing, market seeding, and sales presentations as needed.
- Additional duties as assigned
Media Strategy
- Communicate with marketing managers, sales representatives, and learning technology specialists to get feedback regarding market needs and to provide updates on Pearson and competitors'' products.
- Work with Marketing Manager to prepare competitive analyses and product feature descriptions for media products.
- Additional duties as assigned
- Work on market research projects in collaboration with the market research team, including the creation of surveys and the planning of focus groups for assigned projects; includes writing questionnaires and follow-up questions.
- Evaluate potential media projects and advise acquisitions editors upon request.
- Support acquisitions editors in signings where media plays a critical a role.
Responsibilities:
- Write media plans, including key website and project planning documents, launch memos, and multimedia asset spreadsheets.
- Disseminate media information to book team members as appropriate.
- Create Requests For Proposals (RFP) and solicit bids from vendors, as necessary
- Set up, own, and monitor budgets and schedules for media projects.
- Hire and manage cross-functional teams, including media vendors, content-providers, freelancers, full-service project management vendors and quality assurance vendors as needed, and write freelancer contracts and agreements.
- Facilitate communication among acquisitions editors, marketing/sales managers, and in-house technical teams to develop products accordingly.
- Communicate product details to marketing managers and learning technology specialists in advance of product releases to help field customer inquiries.
- Gather anecdotal evidence from sales reps, and report on media-related sales.
- Create and update process documentation.
- Additional duties as assigned
Sales/Marketing Support:
- National sales meeting preparation support (review marketing materials, provide samples as necessary, create walkthrough scripts of media, etc.)
- Review and provide feedback on multimedia references in brochures, prefaces, or back cover copy.
- Respond to queries within 24 hours by either providing a solution, or directing queries to the appropriate person.
- Resolve queries as they are escalated from sales reps, professors, as well as Customer Technical Support.
- Upon request, attend national conferences. Responsibilities may include: research competitor media, coordinate focus groups, demonstrate Pearson media, attend educational lectures on how media is being used in and out of classroom.
- Spend a minimum of one day each year to speak directly with professors, attend lectures, meet with students, etc.
Qualifications
Minimum requirements:
- Two years or more of experience in project management, preferably producing multimedia media projects, managing cross-functional teams
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Collaborative, team player
- B.A. or B.S. required
Preferred qualities:
- The candidate does not need programming skills, but an understanding of technical product management including products using Flash, Shockwave, Java, HTML, and XML.
- Familiarity with user interface design and best practices
- An interest in science and/or technology
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