Location
Bangalore South | India
Job description
LexiConn is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Sub Editor (Sports) who will contribute in curating content for our client in secondment which is an artificial intelligence based product company that delivers personalized content to the lock screens of smartphones.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Write accurate and high-quality sports content across publishing platforms.
- Work on new-age content creation tools
- Ideate on fresh sports content on a daily basis
- Plan and execute marquee sports events like IPL, World Cups etc.
- Work on a variety of sports - cricket, football, tennis, hockey, F1 etc.
- Develop new ways of delivering sports content to highly active users.
- Work to enhance the quality of our content within tight timelines.
- Work on AI-supported tools and an evolving CMS with skill and agility
- Simplify communication and rework copy (as needed) for varying demographics.
- Edit copy for varying lengths and adhere to various platform-specific guidelines.
- Ensure alignment of content to brand requirements and tonality.
Ideal Profile:
- Have an experience of 0.5-3.5 years working in a newsroom, preferably with sports writing experience.
- Someone who lives and breathes live sports!
- Have a keen grasp on cricket, football, tennis and Indian sports and follow it with a keen eye.
- Updated about the current on goings across a wide spectrum of other sports (football, tennis, F1, Olympic sports etc), well-versed with where to look for content and aware about the who’s who.
- Know the language of how to write for sports and be snappy with your copy.
- Know what image will best describe your story.
- Have general news awareness across categories (tech, nation, world, auto, etc.)
- Amenable to work on any given day, including weekends and holidays, to address the news cycle well. Glances content teams work 365 days a year, while individuals in the team work on 5 of 7 days.
- Outstanding in your ability to use language and grammar well, without being verbose, for a new-age content platform.
- Passionate about working in a fast-paced environment, where role dynamics, expectations and work nature can evolve almost on a quarterly basis.
- Comfortable with using basic video and image editing software to process basic multimedia work.
- Fantastic at time management and deeply committed to meeting deadlines.
- A team-player with exceptional interpersonal skills, who is always willing to get your hands dirty, and get the job done.
- Work deeply with cross-functional teams to deliver the best results.
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