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VP Creative Experiences

First Tube is looking for a proven passionate creative leader to continue to drive First Tube’s leadership position in brand-owned hybrid experiences.  If you believe that TV commercials and banner ads are being replaced with brands needing to create and own experiences that they can share with their target audiences this can be your dream job.

How You Make a Difference

• Deep understanding of how experiences are the biggest opportunity for brands and their target audiences to connect together in a meaningful way.
• Think 360.  You understand what is most important for IRL experiences (In Real Life) and where, when, and how that can translate to digital experiences based on specific business goals.
•  Deliver best in class campaigns, celebrating the innovative DNA of our brand partners to authentically connect with consumers.
• Lead and support a cross-functional team, driving clear creative direction & execution strategies with internal and external partners.
• Drive ongoing creative partnership with brand marketing teams to maximize long-term potential relationships.
• Create content programming formats that scale across digital and social platforms, strategically aligning to consumer behavior and culture
• Lead and collaborate across existing clients as well as new business opportunities.
• Work with the Sales and Integrated Marketing team to define, create and articulate concepts for presentations
• Proactively create live content programming and shoulder content concepts for new business outreach and potential clients.
• Communicate production design and basic treatments for content shoots

• Inform and drive senior management alignment on best practices in content formats.
• As an expert in the brand creative space, innovate and test new ideas. Use data insighting and efforts to help improve existing team resources and campaign outputs.
• Ensure best practices and a consistent brand voice and tone for each client.
• Convey information to diverse audiences often across multiple channels.
• Candidate will have a network of freelance graphic designers for use on brand specific projects.

Who You Are

• 8-10 years of experience
• Extensive digital experience and a proven track record of success in digital content creation required. Specific knowledge and experience within Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and/or Twitch is a plus.
• Demonstrated success as a conceptual thinker that understands complex issues and how to drive new concepts and creative solutions.
• Demonstrated success in brand marketing experiences leading fully integrated brand campaigns.
• Experience in live (streaming) content
• Deep consumer culture experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and inspire a broad range of individuals to work towards a common goal.
• Strong understanding and appreciation of music.
• Desire to be part of a rapidly growing business that you will have the ability to help shape

Who We Are

First Tube Media is a hyper-growth business that was founded in 2017 that combines a team of music experts, filmmakers, digital marketers, creative misfits, and technologists into one platform bringing the live industry together to create must-watch live digital cultural moments. The FTM platform enables talent, event creators, and sponsors to find each other and connect via a full-service approach operating premium live stream creation and proprietary distribution services that deliver endless online exposure and clear ROI.

Seniority Level

Director

Industry

• Entertainment
• Marketing & Advertising
•  Computer Software
•  Internet

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Functions

• Creative Direction
• Content Concepting
• Internal Communication and Cross-Functional Coordination

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Account Coordinator

Who You Are

First Tube Media is looking for a stellar Account Coordinator to join our team as we continue to grow. Proven organizational, project management and production experience is needed. The goal is to become a support to our internal Client Services and cross-functional teams.  In addition to taking on small content/editorial executions building strong and fruitful partnerships that drive strategic growth in our business.

A successful candidate for this role has played a role in project management, understands the social landscape, and has passion exciting work no matter how small the task.  A confident executor who is comfortable in a dynamic startup environment and will bring energy and passion to everything they do. This role reports directly to the Client Success team, with significant cross-functional collaboration across the entire company.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure the highest level of professionalism is maintained on assigned accounts, and work to meet and exceed the Client expectations.
• Support the Client Success leads across our roster of active programs on any specific tasks as needed – production research, fielding questions, building production decks, organizing client facing documents, agenda and tracker creation
• Document call and meeting notes and distill down information into clear action plans
• Deck creation, slide building and writing
• Monitor and incorporate feedback from the client and/or the internal team for continuous workflow improvement.
• Work cross-functionally with Sales, Talent, Production, Analytics, and Operations teams to ensure timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to client needs and objectives.
• Budget management and reporting along with client invoicing and financials

What You’ll Bring

• 0-2 years of digital project management with progressively increasing responsibility, including significant exposure to senior leaders
• A confident leader, exceptional communicator, and compelling presenter with an unbreakable resolve and excellent negotiation skills
• Analytically savvy, familiar with all digital marketing ROAS and other metrics our clients are looking to optimize
• Well-versed in all things Social
• Empathetic, humble and hungry
• Experience working in live and digital events are huge plus
• NYC based

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Account Manager

Who You Are

First Tube Media is looking for a stellar Account Manager to join our team as we continue to grow. Proven client account management experience across digital media programs, established success stories, demonstrated ability to increase revenue, and strategic thinking are vital in this position. The goal is to become not only a trusted advisor to internal media and account teams, but also a partner with the external vendor community building strong and fruitful partnerships that drive innovation and growth in our business.

A successful candidate for this role has built collaborative client relationships from the working level up to the CMO, is excited about our vision for social-first video, is comfortable in a dynamic startup environment, and will bring energy and passion to everything they do. This role reports directly to the senior leadership team, with significant cross-functional collaboration across the entire company.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure the highest level of professionalism is maintained on assigned accounts, and work to meet and exceed the Client expectations.
• Spearhead the day-to-day communication with assigned client partners, with FTM company support – fielding questions, solving problems, giving campaign updates, and providing data/context as needed. Document all learnings both from client interactions and from an internal process standpoint.
• Serve as one of the client’s primary contacts, leading kick-off and weekly status calls as they relate to program-specific work; prepare and present project reporting, analyzing performance relative to the campaign objectives and providing actionable recommendations.
• Be a seasoned presenter to persuasively articulate the strategy, value and expected impact of program recommendations and execution plan.
• Monitor and incorporate feedback from the client and/or the internal team for continuous workflow improvement.
• Work cross-functionally with Sales, Talent, Production, Analytics, and Operations teams to ensure timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to client needs and objectives.

What You’ll Bring:

• 2-5+ years building amazing customer relationships in roles with progressively increasing responsibility, including significant exposure to senior leaders
• A proven leader, exceptional communicator, and compelling presenter with an unbreakable resolve and excellent negotiation skills
• Analytically savvy, familiar with all digital marketing ROAS and other metrics our clients are looking to optimize
• Well-versed in all things Social
• Empathetic, humble and hungry
• Experience working in live events and talent management are huge plus
• NYC based

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Sr. Account Manager

Who You Are

First Tube Media is looking for a stellar Sr. Account Manager to join our team as we continue to grow. Proven client account and program management experience across digital media programs, established success stories, demonstrated ability to increase revenue, and strategic thinking are vital in this position. The goal is to become not only a trusted advisor to our amazing client roster but also to our internal teams and external vendor community, building strong and fruitful partnerships that drive strategic growth to our business.

A successful candidate has experience project managing multiple detail oriented digital projects on tight timelines and built collaborative client relationships.  This person is excited about social-first video, is comfortable in a dynamic startup environment, and will bring energy and passion to everything they do. This role reports directly to the VP of Client Success with significant cross-functional collaboration across the entire company.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure the highest level of professionalism is maintained on assigned accounts, and work to meet and exceed the Client expectations.
• Day to day spearheading and project management with assigned client partners: fielding questions, solving problems, giving campaign updates, and providing data/context as needed.
• Serve as one of the client’s primary contacts, leading kick-off and weekly status calls as they relate to program-specific work; prepare and present project reporting, analyzing performance relative to the campaign objectives and providing actionable recommendations.
• Be a seasoned presenter to persuasively articulate the strategy, value and expected impact of program recommendations and execution plan.
• Monitor and incorporate feedback from the client and/or the internal team for continuous workflow improvement.
• Work cross-functionally with Sales, Talent, Production, Analytics, and Operations teams to ensure timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to client needs and objectives.
• Deck creation, slide building and writing
• Budget management and reporting along with client invoicing and financials
• As the project lead you will have and be able to communicate generalist knowledge of planning, production, talent, digital strategy, media, promotion, branding, design and creative

What You’ll Bring

• 5-7+ years building amazing customer relationships in roles with progressively increasing responsibility
• A confident leader, exceptional communicator, and compelling presenter with an unbreakable resolve and excellent negotiation skills
• Expertise in project management tools such as Asana, Airtable, Monday.com (etc.)
• Analytically savvy, familiar with all digital marketing ROAS and other metrics our clients are looking to optimize
• Well-versed in all things Social
• Empathetic, humble and hungry
• Experience working in live and digital events are huge plus
• NYC based

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Event Production Manager

First Tube Media is looking for a proven Event Production Manager to support our events with some of the world’s leading talent agencies, record labels, management companies, artists and athletes. This position includes responsibilities around building and executing concert productions in both non-traditional and traditional venue environments.

Responsibilities

Overseeing event production for experiential concert based events

• Interface directly with artist management, talent agencies & venues for tech advances.
• Oversee and manage all production vendors.
• Manage and hire local labor and event staff for events as needed.
• Manage and communicate event budgets with team leads.

Production Management

• Venue and staff contracting / invoice collection and organization for internal processing.
• Ideate and produce experiences that inspire audiences to connect, learn and collaborate.
• Put repeatable processes in place that help the team plan and manage multiple parallel projects.
• Partner with internal teams to define their production strategy, success metrics, and requirements for activities that occur within marquee FTM events.
• Bid, hire, and manage all production partners—through negotiating realized savings to event programs.
• Create budget controls to drive accuracy in forecasting and estimating. Ensure compliance of internal regulations and policies.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints.
• Deliver production plans with internal teams and vendor partners.
• Exceptional communication skills to manage leadership reviews, team meetings, and post event debriefs.
• Ability to work across time-zones
• Travel: 2-3 times per month, 3-4 day stays

Who You Are

• 3+ years event production management.
• An exceptional communicator, strategic thinker with an unbreakable resolve.
• Analytically familiar with many production vendors across the US.
• Well-versed in all things production.
• Empathetic, humble and hungry.

Who We Are

First Tube Media is a hyper-growth self-funded profitable business that was founded in 2017 that combines a team of music experts, filmmakers, digital marketers, creative misfits, and technologists into one platform bringing the live industry together to create must-watch live digital cultural moments. The FTM platform enables talent, event creators, and sponsors to find each other and connect via a full-service approach operating premium live stream creation and proprietary distribution services that deliver endless online exposure and clear ROI.

Seniority Level

Associate

Industry

• Entertainment
• Marketing & Advertising
•  Computer Software
•  Internet

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Functions

• Event Production
• Production Advances
• Budget Management
• Vendor Relations

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Assistant Motion Graphic Artist

The Assistant Motion Graphic Artist is responsible for providing hands-on design and animation for our video, streaming and social-based projects.

Working alongside our Senior Motion Designer and Design Director, you’ll help design and execute visual identities and animated storytelling across our slate of programming. The ideal motion designer will maintain a high visual standard, and a strong attention to detail.

You’ll help design and build show identities and graphics packages, from show opens, transitions, and lower thirds.

The ideal candidate must have a strong design sensibility, experience in a deadline driven environment, technical skills with graphics and animations and the ability to handle larger and more complex projects.

Must have an awareness of current business and industry trends, the ability to produce broadcast quality graphics quickly and efficiently, strong communication skills, excellent teamwork, and the ability to take direction.

1-5 years of experience creating and developing graphics.

Experience working knowledge but not limited to Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator. C4D and Premiere experience is a huge plus.

We move fast, so it’s important you’ll be able to prioritize appropriately, always communicate and collaborate with team members effectively and efficiently.

Qualifications

•   Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of related experience.
•   Excellent knowledge of animation production.
•   Fluent in After Effects.

Skills

•   Strong 2D design skills.
•   Strong creative skills.
•   Ability to work in a team environment with other animators.
•   Ability to take direction.
•   Background in broadcast is a plus.
•   3D experience is a plus.
•   Editing experience, a plus
•   Front-end web development is a plus.

About First Tube

• First dedicated live experience platform for brands
• Create must-watch cultural moments for brands to own and sponsor
• Founded in 2016, growing quickly with a team of 25+
• Premier customers include Mastercard, Grubhub, Tito’s Vodka, Bacardi, InBev, and more
• In partnership with premier talent for live experiences including Post Malone, Gavin Degraw, Jennifer Hudson, Kid Leroi, Megan Thee Stallion
• Reaching hundreds of millions of viewers monthly

Who We Are

First Tube Media is a hyper-growth self-funded profitable business that was founded in 2017 that combines a team of music experts, filmmakers, digital marketers, creative misfits, and technologists into one platform bringing the live industry together to create must-watch live digital cultural moments. The FTM platform enables talent, event creators, and sponsors to find each other and connect via a full-service approach operating premium live stream creation and proprietary distribution services that deliver endless online exposure and clear ROI.

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Talent Team Coordinator

First Tube is looking for a stellar Talent Coordinator to support our internal Talent Services + cross functional teams. Proven organizational, project management and production experience is needed. You will support content executions big and small, help build strong and fruitful partnerships with artists for live content programs on behalf of our partner brands.

A successful candidate for this role has played a role in project management, understands the social landscape (both from a strategy + logistic execution lens), and has passion for work no matter how small the task.  A confident executor who is comfortable in a dynamic startup environment and will bring energy and passion to everything they do. This role reports directly to the Talent team, with significant cross-functional collaboration across the entire company.

How You Make A Difference

• Ensure the highest level of professionalism is maintained on assigned projects, and work to meet and exceed expectations.
• Support the Talent Marketing + Management leads across our roster of active programs on any specific tasks as needed:
  • Inputting talent-focused information into program decks
  • Organizing Talent-Facing Documents in Program Onboarding + Artist Reporting
  • Internal Process + Document Organization + Management
  • Meeting Agendas + Program Tracking/Management
  • Manage artist & Influencer activations and deliverables on site.
  • Schedule Meetings and Coordinating Team Schedules
  • Document Meeting Notes + Create Action Plans
  • Talent, Internal + Brand Facing Communication and Workflow
  • Social Channel Back-End Access Knowledge + Coordination of Access Calls/Meetings
  • Travel to film shoots and activation as required – 3-5/month of travel

Who You Are

• 0-2+ years of digital project management with progressively increasing responsibility, including significant exposure to senior leaders
• A confident leader, exceptional communicator, and compelling presenter with an unbreakable resolve and excellent negotiation skills
• Well-versed in all things Social
  • Influencer + Talent Management and Activation
  • Tactical back-end experience in gaining access for publishing, reporting + paid media
• Empathetic, humble and hungry
• Experience working in live and digital events are huge plus
• NYC based

Who We Are

First Tube Media is a hyper-growth business that was founded in 2017 that combines a team of music experts, filmmakers, digital marketers, creative misfits, and technologists into one platform bringing the live industry together to create must-watch live digital cultural moments. The FTM platform enables talent, event creators, and sponsors to find each other and connect via a full-service approach operating premium live stream creation and proprietary distribution services that deliver endless online exposure and clear ROI.

Seniority Level

Entry l

Industry

• Entertainment
• Marketing & Advertising
• Internet

Employment Type

Full-time

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Sales Development Representative (SDR)

The following outlines shared expectations for the Sales Development Representative working directly with the CEO and the Chief Revenue Officer and COO at First Tube Media. Everything in this description is directional and responsibilities can (and will) evolve over time.

As a sales development representative for First Tube Media, your work focuses on outbound sales strategy. In addition to passion for media, technology, livestreaming, music and culture, you can confidently communicate and share product or service information with outside prospects. Candidate must be highly organized and will spend a lot of time making phone calls, sending emails, preparing target lists and managing our CRM. Lead generation is your main responsibility, moving leads through a sales pipeline. A sales development representative identifies challenges and provides practical solutions to prospects. You provide positive insights as a product knowledge specialist.

You will get to work for a diverse range of people and industries. Your main function is to be a driven problem solver, identifying potential clients. Building relationships with prospects will be the central part of your job. You must have impeccable communication skills, as well as being focused on lead generation and strategic outreach.

Job Description

• Interface directly with potential prospects and clients
• Take a brief and early stage internal brainstorm and translate into a proposal deck
• Become lead user of programs like HubSpot and Growbots or any internal CRM system to write sequence/drip emails and both manage and test those email campaigns
• Target new business and use Growbots type resource to find right contacts both manually and through the scaled system (i.e. go through our top target list and find 2-3 key clients for each that we can manually reach out to).
• Doing outreach (day in day out) getting CEO, CRO (and other sales executives) to the table to have conversations and move business to close
• Responsible for answering and qualifying any inbound leads from the website
• Help to develop strategic lists of potential prospects for FTM in various industries and categories
• Work closely with our COO to advance our modeling process for proposals
• Demonstrated ability to work solo as well as being a productive team member, making outbound calls/emails every day
• Have a strong work ethic and are eager to learn and make new connections with prospects
• Clearly communicate First Tube’s value proposition and learning about client needs to see if there’s a good fit

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field
• 1-2 years of relevant business development experience
• Able to promote/sell ideas persuasively
• Able to think strategically and tactically while maintaining a positive attitude in the face of criticism, rejection or failure
• In-depth experience collaborating with cross functional teams (customer success, talent, legal, finance, marketing, operations etc.)

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Lead Developer

FT Live is First Tube’s core offering that enables brands to create compelling livestreaming experiences on and across multiple consumer-facing platforms. We currently have several products for live events for brands, including a VMS, broadcast streaming, AVOD, SVOD, ticketing, multi-platform syndication, and a social live experience. The next version of our SaaS offering will be a seamless and integrated video streaming platform with a common backend and a full analytics suite for B2B customers, plus a new set of campaign management tools with web3-derived features.

Your Role:

This mission-critical technology role is responsible for designing and implementing the architecture and platform on which FT builds these new features and services in livestreaming, analytics, and emergent product lines, including web3. You will collaborate with the head of product, other developers, and an event production team to ensure we have the best-in-class platform for creating, implementing, and quantifying the ROI of our customers’ campaigns.

You Will Also:

• Manage a small team of back and front-end developers, including web3 development
• Actively build and maintain all backend services, including application, deployment, databases, cloud resources, monitoring, backups, and alerting
• Collaborate with trusted vendors for key external processes, such as data aggregation
• Ensure high-availability and high-accuracy processes are in place, including around third-party API management
• Participate actively in exploring web3 and other emerging technologies, and shaping our point-of-view on how we can leverage them
• Perform code reviews, build and maintain CI/CD pipeline
• Manage and maintain our internal workflow tools, including bug tracking
• Work directly with and manage key vendors and technology partners, including external development resources
• Be an in-house leader on agile development practices, working closely with head of product to identify, scope, and prioritize work to be done

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields
• 7+ years experience in full-stack web development, preferably in B2B/enterprise
• Experience as a technical leader where you were responsible for the performance of a development team
• Mastery of at least one major programming language and proficiency in others, e.g., Python
• Proficiency in web3/blockchain and Solidity programming
• Expertise in analytics products, pulling data from disparate sources that will be rendered in multiple visualization tools for both internal and external users
• Demonstrated knowledge of web applications, API design, and normalization of data from multiple APIs and other sources
• Experience in creating event-driven architectures
• Deep understanding of public cloud services, including AWS and Google Cloud, including instantiating and managing data warehouses
• Understanding of how to develop and apply machine learning models to large datasets
• Demonstrated ability to create and manage automated testing and monitoring strategies to ensure quality and reliability
• Knowledge of web application security concepts and practices

Bonus Points:

• Experience working with social media platform APIs
• Active participation in the web3 ecosystem
• General understanding of livestreaming, video content management, and relevant metrics
• Understanding of the marketing technology business
• Experience in leading hack-a-thons with cross-functional teams

About First Tube

• First dedicated live experience platform for brands
• Creates must-watch cultural moments for brands to own and sponsor
• Founded in 2016, growing quickly with a team of 25+
• Premier customers include Mastercard, Grubhub, Tito’s Vodka, Bacardi, AB InBev
• History of high-profile partnerships with premier talent for live experiences, including Post Malone, Gavin Degraw, Jennifer Hudson, Kid Leroi, Megan Thee Stallion, and more
• Our work reaches hundreds of millions viewers monthly

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every single box. First Tube is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but you don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Digital Project Manager

FT Live is First Tube’s core offering that enables brands to create compelling livestreaming experiences on and across multiple consumer-facing platforms. We currently have several products for live events for brands, including a VMS, broadcast streaming, AVOD, SVOD, ticketing, multi-platform syndication, and a social live experience. You will collaborate with the head of product, technical lead, other developers, and a web3 ideation team to ensure we have the best-in-class platform for deploying and maintaining web3-based products for our customers.

This role is the project management lead for our digital development team. You will collaborate with the head of products to craft a roadmap, lead our agile methodology, and report on every aspect of our development, ensuring we are focused on quality while balancing scope, cost, and time constraints.

In this role, you will:

• Provide end-to-end project management including resource balancing, project status reports, and lead internal communications and briefings
• Coordinating project timing and regular communication with the head of products for resource allocations
• Collaborate with internal teams to design, develop and implement digital projects
• Deliver projects on time ensuring quality standards are met
• Communicate with the team and ensure all members are on board with delegated tasks
• Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues
• Seek opportunities for improvement and suggest new projects
• Create detailed schedules, reports and communications related to assigned projects as requested
• Works directly with the VP, Products to ensure essential tasks related to various digital projects are handled in a timely, appropriate manner

Qualifications:

• Proven work experience as a digital project manager or similar role
• Solid experience with software development life cycle using both agile and waterfall project methodologies
• Scrum Master certification
• Expert user of project management tools (e.g., Asana, Aha)
• Familiarity with Content Management systems and HTML/CSS
• Knowledge of web2 and web3 technologies
• Expert in business applications, including Google Workspace
• Solid technical background with an ability to address accessibility and compatibility issues
• Thorough understanding of user experience development

Bonus Points:

• Media agency experience is a big plus, or experience in B2B with media or consumer brand customers
• Excellent organization, attention to detail and strong time management skills
• Ability to stay organized, solve problems, manage workload and carry projects through to completion
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and team management skills
• Desire to continually learn more about the craft, the business and the industries we serve

About First Tube:

• First dedicated live experience platform for brands
• Creates must-watch cultural moments for brands to own and sponsor
• Founded in 2016, growing quickly with a team of 25+
• Premier customers include Mastercard, Grubhub, Tito’s Vodka, Bacardi, AB InBev
• History of high-profile partnerships with premier talent for live experiences, including Post Malone, Gavin Degraw, Jennifer Hudson, The Kid LAROI, Megan Thee Stallion, and more
• Our work reaches hundreds of millions of viewers monthly

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every single box. First Tube is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but you don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Web3 Technical Product Manager

FT Live is First Tube’s core offering that enables brands to create compelling livestreaming experiences on and across multiple consumer-facing platforms. We currently have several products for live events for brands, including a VMS, broadcast streaming, AVOD, SVOD, ticketing, multi-platform syndication, and a social live experience. You will collaborate with the head of product, technical lead, other developers, and a web3 ideation team to ensure we have the best-in-class platform for deploying and maintaining web3-based products for our customers.

Your Role:

This role is the technical product owner of our web3-based product suite, plus product management support for FT’s full livestreaming and analytics platform. You will work with the VP, Products to turn our high-level business requirements into epics and user stories.

You Will Also:

• Ensure all work is aligned with strategic initiatives and that those initiatives are sufficiently defined
• Work with the VP, Products to prioritize work, then lead the scoping/estimation process with dedicated and external resources
• Populate a shared product management workflow with new and updated initiatives, epics, stories, bug assessments
• Collaborate with dev and design resources to create rapid prototypes of new features for stakeholder and expert user review
• Lead user acceptance testing (UAT) efforts alongside your frontend development counterpart
• Be an in-house leader on agile development practices, including training non-technical staff on how to participate in those processes

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering, or 4+ years of equivalent experience in technical product management
• Expertise in managing agile processes and 4+ years experience as a product owner, ideally in B2B/enterprise settings
• Understanding of API structures and how to build products on top of multiple APIs from disparate sources
• Proficiency in web3 standards and development, including Solidity-based products
• Functional experience in defining and managing metadata-based workflows
• Active consumer of livestreaming products and services; bonus points if you have experience as a content creator, e.g., Twitch, YouTube, or experience working with video production teams

Bonus Points:

• Experience with LIVE/VOD video-centric products
• History of building analytics products with strong visualization components
• General understanding of the marketing tech space
• Some experience in external-facing product documentation, such as white papers
• Expert user of Aha, Asana, JIRA, other product/project management tools

About First Tube:

• First dedicated live experience platform for brands
• Creates must-watch cultural moments for brands to own and sponsor
• Founded in 2016, growing quickly with a team of 25+
• Premier customers include Mastercard, Grubhub, Tito’s Vodka, Bacardi, AB InBev
• History of high-profile partnerships with premier talent for live experiences, including Post Malone, Gavin Degraw, Jennifer Hudson, The Kid LAROI, Megan Thee Stallion, and more
• Our work reaches hundreds of millions of viewers monthly

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every single box. First Tube is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but you don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected] 

Frontend Developer

FT Live is First Tube’s core offering that enables brands to create compelling livestreaming experiences on and across multiple consumer-facing platforms. We currently have several products for live events for brands, including a VMS, broadcast streaming, AVOD, SVOD, ticketing, multi-platform syndication, and a social live experience. The next version of our SaaS offering will be a seamless and integrated video streaming platform with a common backend and a full analytics suite for B2B customers with automated syndication.

Your Role:

This mission-critical development role is responsible for (1) brand-facing tools for our customers, especially analytics and data visualization, and (2) consumer-facing products we provide to brands to craft their fan experiences, including livestreaming products. You will collaborate with the head of product, other developers, and a production team to ensure we have the best-in-class platform for creating, managing, and quantifying the ROI of our customers’ campaigns.

You Will Also:

• Help establish the visual vocabulary for our analytics product, working with product and UI/UX resources to generate new and better ROI insights
• Work with product and production teams to streamline our live workflows and consolidate around a core set of customer options
• Perform code reviews and lead UAT sessions with internal team and customers
• Scope and build proof-of-concept prototypes for stakeholder review and expert user feedback
• Participate actively in exploring emerging presentation layer technologies and how we can leverage them, including AR/VR, membership-based services

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of experience in computer science, software engineering, human/machine interface design, or related fields
• Deep experience in building on top of and integrating with REST APIs
• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Hands-on experience developing applications for highly available, scalable systems, preferably B2B/enterprise applications
• Understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and CSS media queries
• Demonstrated experience with Go, Python, Java, C/C++ or other programming languages
• Deep understanding of the underlying design philosophy and implementation of common web frameworks (Vue/React/Angular)
• Experience with UI/UX design using design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD
• A portfolio of well-crafted, data-visualization-focused products we can review as part of the interview process
• Masterful understanding of frontend/backend application architecture and protocols
• Familiarity with product and software development lifecycle process, including agile frameworks

Bonus Points:

• Proficiency in building web2 and web3 offerings
• Degree in computer science or human/machine interface design
• Experience with social media platform APIs and resultant analytics
• Understanding of the marketing technology business
• General understanding of livestreaming, video content management, metadata
• Experience with Unity and/or Unreal Engine, or other 3D tools, e.g., Niantic Lightship
• A strong point of view on the evolution of the “metaverse”

About First Tube:

• First dedicated live experience platform for brands
• Creates must-watch cultural moments for brands to own and sponsor
• Founded in 2016, growing quickly with a team of 25+
• Premier customers include Mastercard, Grubhub, Tito’s Vodka, Bacardi, AB InBev
• History of high-profile partnerships with premier talent for live experiences, including Post Malone, Gavin Degraw, Jennifer Hudson, The Kid LAROI, Megan Thee Stallion, and more
• Our work reaches hundreds of millions of viewers monthly

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every single box. First Tube is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but you don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Web3 Developer

FT Live is First Tube’s core offering that enables brands to create compelling livestreaming experiences on and across multiple consumer-facing platforms. We currently have several products for live events for brands, including a VMS, broadcast streaming, AVOD, SVOD, ticketing, multi-platform syndication, and a social live experience, as well as new web3-based offerings that will be integrated with the rest of the product suite.

Your Role:

This development role is responsible for leading the development of any and all blockchain/web3-derived offerings. You will collaborate with the head of product, technical lead, other developers, and a web3 ideation team to ensure we have the best-in-class platform for deploying and maintaining web3-based products for our customers.

You Will Also:

• Actively suggest, build, and manage all web3 services, including application, deployment, databases, cloud resources, monitoring, backups, and alerting
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define new offerings, both at the platform and campaign level, i.e., our toolset plus new products for customers that we can leverage as replicable products
• Ensure high-availability and high-accuracy processes are in place, including around blockchain management
• Perform code reviews, build and maintain CI/CD pipeline for web3 initiatives
• Be an in-house leader on web3 and blockchain in general, working closely with the head of product to identify, scope, and prioritize new opportunities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields
• 4+ years experience in web2 development, preferably in B2B/enterprise
• 2+ years experience in web3 development, especially in Solidity-based offerings
• Portfolio of existing web3 work you can provide and show in detail
• Active participation in the web3 space, e.g., NFT ownership, Discord participation
• Demonstrated knowledge of web applications, API design, and normalization of data from multiple APIs and other sources
• Deep understanding of public cloud services, e.g., Google Cloud
• Demonstrated ability to create and manage automated testing and monitoring strategies to ensure quality and reliability, specifically for web3 products
• Knowledge of web application security concepts and practices

Bonus Points:

• Experience with developing and integrating products using Unity and/or Unreal Engine, or other 3D tools
• Understanding of the marketing technology business
• Experience in leading hack-a-thons with cross-functional teams

About First Tube:

• First dedicated live experience platform for brands
• Creates must-watch cultural moments for brands to own and sponsor
• Founded in 2016, growing quickly with a team of 25+
• Premier customers include Mastercard, Grubhub, Tito’s Vodka, Bacardi, AB InBev
• History of high-profile partnerships with premier talent for live experiences, including Post Malone, Gavin Degraw, Jennifer Hudson, Kid Leroi, Megan Thee Stallion, and more
• Our work reaches hundreds of millions of viewers monthly

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every single box. First Tube is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but you don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Backend Developer

FT Live is First Tube’s core offering that enables brands to create compelling livestreaming experiences on and across multiple consumer-facing platforms. We currently have several products for live events for brands, including a VMS, broadcast streaming, AVOD, SVOD, ticketing, multi-platform syndication, and a social live experience. The next version of our SaaS offering will be a seamless and integrated video streaming platform with a common backend and a full analytics suite for B2B customers with automated syndication.

Your Role:

Reporting to the technical team lead, this development role is responsible for helping define the architecture and platform on which FT builds these new features and services in livestreaming and analytics, then implementing those offerings. You will collaborate with the head of product, other developers, and an event production team to ensure we have the best-in-class platform for creating, managing, and quantifying the ROI of our customers’ campaigns.

You Will Also:

• Actively build and manage backend services, including application, deployment, databases, cloud resources, monitoring, backups, and alerting
• Collaborate with trusted vendors for key external processes, such as data aggregation
• Ensure high-availability and high-accuracy processes are in place, including around third-party API management
• Participate actively in exploring emerging technologies and how we can leverage them
• Perform code reviews, provide key inputs into the CI/CD pipeline
• Participate in our key internal workflow tools, including bug tracking
• Work directly with and manage key vendors and technology partners, including external development resources

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related fields
• 4+ years experience in full stack web development, preferably in B2B/enterprise
• Mastery of at least one major programming language and proficiency in others, e.g., Python
• Deep expertise in analytics products, pulling data from disparate sources that will be rendered in multiple visualization tools for both internal and external users
• Demonstrated knowledge of web applications, API design, and normalization of data from multiple APIs and other sources
• Experience in creating event-driven architectures
• Deep understanding of public cloud services, including AWS and Google Cloud, including instantiating and managing data warehouses
• Understanding of how to develop and apply machine learning models to large datasets
• Demonstrated ability to create and manage automated testing and monitoring strategies to ensure quality and reliability
• Knowledge of web application security concepts and practices

Bonus Points:

• Experience working with social media platform APIs
• General understanding of livestreaming, video content management, and relevant metrics
• Understanding of the marketing technology business
• Experience in cross-functional hack-a-thons
• Understanding of how to develop and apply machine learning models to large datasets

About First Tube:

• First dedicated live experience platform for brands
• Creates must-watch cultural moments for brands to own and sponsor
• Founded in 2016, growing quickly with a team of 25+
• Premier customers include Mastercard, Grubhub, Tito’s Vodka, Bacardi, AB InBev
• History of high-profile partnerships with premier talent for live experiences, including Post Malone, Gavin Degraw, Jennifer Hudson, Kid Leroi, Megan Thee Stallion, and more
• Our work reaches hundreds of millions viewers monthly

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every single box. First Tube is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but you don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]

Media Director

First Tube is looking for a proven Media & Analytics professional to lead our relationships with some of the world’s leading marketers. This position includes responsibilities for Media & Analytics activities including onboarding new media vendors, support (pre, live, and post media campaigns), analysis & analytics, and strategic consultation, as well as the key outcomes of this work – ie, renewals and upsells.

A successful candidate for this role has built collaborative client relationships from the working level up to the Head of Customer Success, is excited about our vision for social video, is comfortable in a dynamic startup environment, and will bring energy and passion to everything they do. This role reports directly to the senior leadership team, with significant cross-functional collaboration across the entire company.

Responsibilities:

Define and Optimize customer’s Media Campaigns

• Standardize & Grow the template for onboarding media activities for new customers and campaigns
• Determine how to define, drive, and demonstrate the value delivered to clients. Delivering against KPIs.
• Drive adoption of new media products; adding them to our core areas of excellence. Improve on our utilization of key media platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.
• Building custom digital campaigns to reach an artist’s key demographic and engage their target audience.
• Gain customer buy-in for joint case studies and references
• Create and organize the reporting of all Ad Spends back to the client
• Present data virtues to the client on learnings and happenings in reports in a complex and understandable way

Help build and develop the Media & Analytics team

• Foster collaboration within the team and across the company, building mutual respect and trust for the Media and Analytics disciplines.
• Encourage continuous learning within the team, and identify opportunities to develop critical skills across the team
• Ensure that all key stakeholders deeply understand our customers’ businesses and objectives, as related to media and marketing goals, and are positioned to serve as trusted advisors
• Understand how to utilize, organize, and amplify data points for future campaigns; taking the knowledge of previous campaigns

Media & Analytics Leadership within our competitive marketplace

• Create a company-wide culture where Media & Analytics is seen as a competitive advantage for customers of First Tube
• Inform the First Tube product roadmap based on your input, and input elicited from our customers and the marketplace.
• Define new data collection and analysis processes
• Design and execute operational reporting highlighting key customer success drivers
• Craft the creative vision behind the aesthetics of the platform, and work with designers directly to accomplish clear and concise objectives.
• Negotiate compensation and project details for outside contractors related to marketing and promotions

Own key Customer Success metrics

• Reduced Gross Churn, increased Net Dollar Retention and Gross Billings.
• Cultivation of referenceable clients and marketable case studies
• Revenue through cross-sell and up-sell activity

First Tube Social Marketing Strategy

• Set and achieve strategic goals related to social media metrics.  Including the creation of the graphics and copy on all posts
• Oversee, build and implement SEO campaigns and display advertising
• Coordinate with FTM PR releases & news – to expand reach and influence of FTM with the prescribed social platforms, with the key result of increased inbound sales inquiries.
• Interaction with users on all social media platforms to help establish leads and build brand awareness
• Analyze the long-term needs of the company’s social media strategy and offer quarterly reports to the management and executive teams that outline any necessary changes to the digital marketing plan
• Copywriting for email marketing and digital campaigns as a whole.
• Working with artists to identify goals and implementing a strategy to encourage brand recognition, build a following, and convey a consistent message.
• Responsible for the uploads of creative on all of First Tube Social channels.
• Run highly targeted paid campaigns to develop leads for First Tube as a whole.  The reporting that follows with these ads.
• Handle all organization of First Tube data
  • This includes:
• • Creation of individualized Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube (respective) Business Managers.
  • The crafting of banners on all outlets
  • Organization of all leads from the pipeline to be converted into data drivers for our paid campaigns.

Industry Outreach

• Foster relationships between First Tube and media channels, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. The goal is to gain access to assistance and standing with each of the platforms, for instance ( First Tube as an approved advertiser on…)
• Handle all username changes and verifications for all platforms on the client end.  Added value presented back to the client.
• Contacts within the Music Industry to gain artist access when their teams have been unresponsive.
• Work directly with sales and development/customer success teams to foster + develop leads at Director/Manager level with potential revenue drivers and business opportunities

Who You Are:

• 7+ years building amazing customer relationships in roles with progressively increasing responsibility, including significant exposure to CMOs / other senior leaders
• A proven leader, exceptional communicator, and compelling presenter with an unbreakable resolve and excellent negotiation skills
• Analytically savvy, familiar with all digital marketing ROAS and other metrics our clients are looking to optimize
• Well-versed in all things Social
• Empathetic, humble and hungry
• NYC based

Job Functions:

• Media Buying Oversight
• Creative Oversight
• Media Analytics & Program Delivery
• Project Management
• Business Development

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every single box. First Tube is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but you don’t meet every single qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway.

SEND APPLICATIONS TO [email protected]