News Corp
Senior Associate/Manager, Strategic Projects (Chief of Staff track)
News Corp, New York, NY
Job Description :
**Job Title** : Sr. Associate/Manager, Strategic Projects
**Location** : NYC (Hybrid/ In-office 4 days per week)
**Reporting to:** CEO
Acting as a project manager and thought partner to the CEO, Executive Team and all colleagues with an aim to drive the best possible outcomes in line with key business objectives.
About Storyful Founded by pioneering journalists as the first social media newswire, Storyful was created out of the need to break the news faster and edit social content to add vital context to news reporting. Acquired by News Corp in 2013, Storyful has evolved into a premium news, video and social media intelligence partner for media, business leaders and marketing and communications professionals. Storyful's mission is to provide trusted, cross-platform content and context in a complex online information environment.
For news clients, we are the definitive source for eyewitness news and viral videos, playing an integral role in newsrooms around the world. For marketing and communications leaders, Storyful Intelligence delivers bespoke insights derived from unique access to social media data and pioneering technology, contextualized by expert analysts.
**Strategic Projects**
• Partnering with colleagues across all departments in the form of project leadership, project management, or strategic guidance to drive progress and ensure excellence against key strategic initiatives.
• Point person for managing CEO project list, providing a link to the status of key projects for the CEO and the Executive Team, as well as connecting teams across the business that are working on the initiatives.
• Areas of focus may include: special projects for the CEO and Executive Team, sales enablement and GTM transformation, new product launches, internal and external strategic marketing and communications initiatives, and guidance across key client accounts.
**Marketing/External Comms & CEO PR**
• Providing a review of all comms to ensure it is aligned to Storyful's core business strategy and ethos
• Identifying and vetting CEO speaking opportunities and interview requests
• Drafting external CEO speeches and presentations
**Corporate Reporting**
• Point person for annual Strategy and Budget deck preparation drafting and process
• Preparing quarterly CEO Reports on business progress and activities
• Supporting ad hoc reporting as required
**CEO Internal Presence & Comms**
• Creating first drafts of internal CEO comms in collaboration with CEO: weekly all-staff emails, company meeting comms, individual emails, etc.
• Creating agendas and identifying key priorities for weekly Executive Team meetings
• Planning and executing Executive team and Company offsites
• Assessing all inquiries directed to CEO and determining the proper course of action, as well as determining which meetings take priority and providing the proper preparation for each meeting
• Attending meetings in place of CEO as needed and guiding decisions in line with CEO priorities
**CEO Administrative**
• Scheduling meetings and coordinating calendars
• Booking travel and accommodations
• Filing monthly expense reports
**Required Experience and Qualifications:**
• Bachelor's degree and/or project management qualification is required.
• Minimum of 5+ years' experience supporting senior level/C suite leadership. Strategy background a plus, but not a requirement.
• Exceptional planning and organizational skills; high-levels of persistence and attention to detail
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Must be able to interact and communicate with individuals at all levels throughout the organization.
• Collaborative with the confidence and ability to engage stakeholders and senior leaders across different departments, within and outside the Company.
• Experience managing calendar and booking travel using a travel service online booking tool; and computer software applications (Google and Microsoft Office Suite).
• Highly proactive, intuitive, resourceful, self-sufficient, sharp, and capable of multitasking and working in a fast-paced environment.
• Must possess excellent judgment and work well under pressure and have strong attention to detail.
• Team player with a high level of initiative and a proactive approach to work, willingness to take ownership of tasks and issues and follow up to ensure that they are successfully brought to completion.
Job Category: Storyful - Executives
Pay Range: 85000 - 120000
We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.
For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
Storyful is the world's social media intelligence agency.
Founded by Irish journalists as the first social media newswire, Storyful was created out of the need to break the news faster and utilize social content to add context to reporting. Acquired by News Corp in 2013, Storyful has evolved into a premium service for media, brands and communications. We are the leaders in social media contextualization and verification.
We believe social media is the key to a deeper understanding of global events and cultural phenomena. Our goal is to help our partners understand the attitudes, behaviors and emotions behind the conversations and movements shaping the world.
Powered by a unique ability to gather and streamline data from all corners of an increasingly complex media landscape, our team of journalists and researchers deliver clarity in a world of confusion. Our mission is to dig deeper into the nuance inherent in social media to establish context, verify the truth and, ultimately, to help our partners make sense of the world.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets
**Job Title** : Sr. Associate/Manager, Strategic Projects
**Location** : NYC (Hybrid/ In-office 4 days per week)
**Reporting to:** CEO
Acting as a project manager and thought partner to the CEO, Executive Team and all colleagues with an aim to drive the best possible outcomes in line with key business objectives.
About Storyful Founded by pioneering journalists as the first social media newswire, Storyful was created out of the need to break the news faster and edit social content to add vital context to news reporting. Acquired by News Corp in 2013, Storyful has evolved into a premium news, video and social media intelligence partner for media, business leaders and marketing and communications professionals. Storyful's mission is to provide trusted, cross-platform content and context in a complex online information environment.
For news clients, we are the definitive source for eyewitness news and viral videos, playing an integral role in newsrooms around the world. For marketing and communications leaders, Storyful Intelligence delivers bespoke insights derived from unique access to social media data and pioneering technology, contextualized by expert analysts.
**Strategic Projects**
• Partnering with colleagues across all departments in the form of project leadership, project management, or strategic guidance to drive progress and ensure excellence against key strategic initiatives.
• Point person for managing CEO project list, providing a link to the status of key projects for the CEO and the Executive Team, as well as connecting teams across the business that are working on the initiatives.
• Areas of focus may include: special projects for the CEO and Executive Team, sales enablement and GTM transformation, new product launches, internal and external strategic marketing and communications initiatives, and guidance across key client accounts.
**Marketing/External Comms & CEO PR**
• Providing a review of all comms to ensure it is aligned to Storyful's core business strategy and ethos
• Identifying and vetting CEO speaking opportunities and interview requests
• Drafting external CEO speeches and presentations
**Corporate Reporting**
• Point person for annual Strategy and Budget deck preparation drafting and process
• Preparing quarterly CEO Reports on business progress and activities
• Supporting ad hoc reporting as required
**CEO Internal Presence & Comms**
• Creating first drafts of internal CEO comms in collaboration with CEO: weekly all-staff emails, company meeting comms, individual emails, etc.
• Creating agendas and identifying key priorities for weekly Executive Team meetings
• Planning and executing Executive team and Company offsites
• Assessing all inquiries directed to CEO and determining the proper course of action, as well as determining which meetings take priority and providing the proper preparation for each meeting
• Attending meetings in place of CEO as needed and guiding decisions in line with CEO priorities
**CEO Administrative**
• Scheduling meetings and coordinating calendars
• Booking travel and accommodations
• Filing monthly expense reports
**Required Experience and Qualifications:**
• Bachelor's degree and/or project management qualification is required.
• Minimum of 5+ years' experience supporting senior level/C suite leadership. Strategy background a plus, but not a requirement.
• Exceptional planning and organizational skills; high-levels of persistence and attention to detail
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Must be able to interact and communicate with individuals at all levels throughout the organization.
• Collaborative with the confidence and ability to engage stakeholders and senior leaders across different departments, within and outside the Company.
• Experience managing calendar and booking travel using a travel service online booking tool; and computer software applications (Google and Microsoft Office Suite).
• Highly proactive, intuitive, resourceful, self-sufficient, sharp, and capable of multitasking and working in a fast-paced environment.
• Must possess excellent judgment and work well under pressure and have strong attention to detail.
• Team player with a high level of initiative and a proactive approach to work, willingness to take ownership of tasks and issues and follow up to ensure that they are successfully brought to completion.
Job Category: Storyful - Executives
Pay Range: 85000 - 120000
We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.
For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
Storyful is the world's social media intelligence agency.
Founded by Irish journalists as the first social media newswire, Storyful was created out of the need to break the news faster and utilize social content to add context to reporting. Acquired by News Corp in 2013, Storyful has evolved into a premium service for media, brands and communications. We are the leaders in social media contextualization and verification.
We believe social media is the key to a deeper understanding of global events and cultural phenomena. Our goal is to help our partners understand the attitudes, behaviors and emotions behind the conversations and movements shaping the world.
Powered by a unique ability to gather and streamline data from all corners of an increasingly complex media landscape, our team of journalists and researchers deliver clarity in a world of confusion. Our mission is to dig deeper into the nuance inherent in social media to establish context, verify the truth and, ultimately, to help our partners make sense of the world.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets