Segment Producer

BUSINESS NEWS (ASIA) LLP; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

VERSANT Media, CNBC International division, seeks a Segment Producer to help build a live business-news program. You will collaborate with executive producers, senior/junior producers, and operations to craft segments, book guests, and deliver timely and engaging coverage of markets.

The role emphasizes editorial judgment, strong storytelling, and willingness to work a demanding schedule, including weekends, to meet daily deadlines.

Qualifications

• Exemplary editorial judgment.
• Self-starters with superior contacts under daily deadline pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a strong storytelling sense.
• Willingness to accommodate a demanding production schedule, including weekends and some holidays.

Responsibilities

• Develop and produce live and taped guest segments.
• Generate original content ideas daily from diverse sources.
• Identify and book compelling guests.
• Conduct pre-interviews and arrange hits.
• Write copy and teases for segments.
• Secure sound bites and video to support segments.
• Help create, visualize and produce segments for the show.
• Bring new ideas to the show for segments and franchises.
• Maintain relationships with news sources.
• Support Line Producers in show production.

Skills

Editorial judgment

Self-starter

Interpersonal skills

Deadline discipline

Job description

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

CNBC INTERNATIONAL

CNBC is the world’s number one business and financial news network. Its mission is to help the influential and aspirational make astute decisions to get ahead by providing live market updates, breaking news, in-depth analysis and exclusive interviews.

CNBC’s vast portfolio includes CNBC.com, the online destination for global business; CNBC PRO, the network’s premium subscription service that provides real-time global market data and market analysis, as well as a growing slate of live and virtual events where consumers can experience CNBC’s award-winning journalism, live.

With headquarters in New Jersey, London, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi, CNBC provides a truly global 24-hour business briefing for senior business leaders, the financial community and those with assets to invest or protect. Today the channel is available in more than 392 million homes worldwide. CNBC also boasts a growing audience across its social media and digital video platforms.

Visit www.cnbc.com for more information.

OVERVIEW

The Segment Producer will work closely with Executive Producers, senior and junior producers, and CNBC Operations to build a live news TV program for CNBC International. You will draw on your experience as an accomplished news producer with strong editorial knowledge of business and financial markets to meet the challenges and fast-paced demands of this role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll do…

• Develop and produce live and taped guest segments.
• Generate original content ideas daily, tapping into a broad array of sources.
• Identify and book compelling guests.
• Conduct pre-interviews of guests and arranging hits.
• Write compelling copy and teases.
• Secure elements such as sound bites and video to support segments.
• Help create, visualize and produce segments for the show.
• Bring new and creative ideas to the show for segments and franchises.
• Develop and maintain good relationships with news sources.
• Assist Line Producers in the production of the show.

Qualifications

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Exemplary editorial judgment.
• Successful candidates will be self-starters with superior contacts who can work effectively and creatively under daily deadline pressure.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, combined with a strong sense of how to visually tell a compelling story.
• Willingness to accommodate a demanding production schedule and flexibility to work weekends and some holidays when and as required.

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES

While not essential for this role, candidates with experience or proficiency in the following attributes tend to excel in this position.

• Three (3) or more years of experience booking and segment producing in a live television environment, with demonstrated writing, research and communication skills.
• Familiarity with CNBC News standards.
• Strong understanding of the markets and prior experience at a financial news network.

The responsibilities associated with this position are not limited to the above description and may be modified at any time by the Company.

Additional information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT 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.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [e-mail].

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.