What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Producer position at Medscape?
MedscapeLIVE!, a Medscape Company, delivers MD and HCP audiences across all therapeutic areas. Access MDs and HCPs through MedscapeLIVE! Events.
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Position Summary:
The MedscapeLIVE! Technical Producer is a key contributor to the overall success of the live business unit, the technical producer supports live events both domestically and globally. A key component of the position is to operate as a video tech during live events, controlling the switch to screens and DSM’s and the ability to deploy and manage Audience Response Systems (ARS) at live/virtual and hybrid events. Demonstrating extremely strong technical knowledge and hands-on experience to support the production staff at medical conferences, webinars and virtual conferences are the essential skills required for the MedscapeLIVE! events Technical Producer.
What You’ll Do:
- Operate PPT during live events,switching between ppt/video/ARS to screens and DSM’s
- Develop and maintain standard operating Audience Response procedures for live/ virtual/hybrid conferences and symposiums
- Streaming experience and expertise on multiple platforms
- Create reports, dashboards, and other tools to effectively collect feedback from attendees and measure progress toward team and organizational goals
- Work on location and virtually on various video conference platforms to create live/simulcast webinars and virtual conferences
- Strong project management skills and the ability to multitask in an event driven environment
- Interact with professionals in the medical community to gain insight from the learners to advance our technology solutions
- Support the production team in a variety of technical capacities in addition to ARS oversight
- Create documentation on various instructional technologies
Who You Are:
- Strong team player that takes on challenging projects with a positive attitude
- Communicates well with medical professionals and has a desire to produce high quality live events
- In addition to being a team player, also a self starter who can take on a project and run with it
- Someone who is comfortable in a highly deadline-driven environment, and able to pivot quickly between tasks and adapt to rapidly shifting priorities
- Thrives in a role that relies on accuracy, attention to detail and consistency of work
- Conversant in Webdev as well as video production
- Someone who will support the production team in leading the ARS integration at live and virtual meetings and help in the overall technical workflow in delivering in person/virtual and hybrid events
- Able to trouble shoot hardware and software in stressful situations
- Strong background knowledge with live production hardware and software
Qualifications:
- 5 years working in multimedia deliverables and experience working on live/virtual and hybrid events
- Set up, configure, and operate a wide range of audiovisual equipment, with a primary focus on video components such as cameras, video switchers, projectors, and monitors.
- Experience with PPT and operating a switch during live events
- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of systems, tools, work routines and procedures related to meetings, events, hybrid events, and remote productions
- Experience and implementation of Audience Response Systems
- Digital content and video editing skills, Adobe Suite
- Experience in data asset management
- Webdev and familiarity with Javascript, HTML and CSS a plus
- Excellent organizational skills for tracking events timelines and budgets, expertise in Excel and Microsoft Suites, Smartsheet as well as other organizational tools
- Experience working on different streaming platforms, Livestream, Vimeo, VMix
- Streaming knowledge and expertise
- Comfortable with all aspects of Zoom and remote recordings
- Willing to travel domestically/globally
- Up to 50% travel may be required
