Job Opportunities at Mathrubhumi
About the company
Today, the Mathrubhumi Group is not only a fast growing publishing house of repute but also a corporate entity in the mass communication industry, and has struck deep roots in the hearts of Malayalees wherever they are. It has also put an indelible stamp on the art and cultural horizons of Kerala.
Vacancies to which recruitment
is going to happen
Support Engineer, App Developer,Web Developer,SEO Executive,Content Creator (News),Graphic Designer,Video Editor,Content Producer,Copy Writer,Senior Social Media Strategist,Social Media Strategist,Social Media Strategist – Content Marketing,Data Analyst
More information regarding each post such as Function/Department, Job Purpose,Responsibilities,Requirements,Educational Qualification,Experience are mentioned below. Interested and appropriate candidates can apply to the post they are looking for.
Support Engineer
Function/Department: Digital Media, Media Business
Job Purpose:
Maintain server and desktop infrastructure across various locations and cloud. Ensure that its users can easily access applications. Troubleshoots issues at server, PC, devices, and related applications.
Responsibilities:
- Perform ongoing performance tuning, system upgrades, regular patching, security remediation and resource optimization as required.
- Perform / oversee daily system monitoring, verify the integrity and availability of all IT Infrastructure, systems, and key IT processes.
- Provide Systems Engineering support of production and non- production environments.
- Document known solutions to internal and external knowledgebase
- Work on technical projects
Requirements:
- Strong troubleshooting skills at Networking, Application and Database level
- Understanding of Load Balancer, CDN, Clusters, Container environment
- Technical awareness and ability to quickly understand new technologies
- Should have sufficient knowledge of internet protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP/S, SFTP, DNS
- Knowledge in Server Security, Firewalls Setup, DNS management and Port Blocking
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Ability to learn quickly and achieve goals in timely manner
Educational Qualification:
BTech in Computer Science or a related subject, Amazon cloud certification
Experience:
2-year work experience with Linux-based servers, monitoring and investigating issues in the cloud environment
Web Developer
Function/Department: Digital Media, Media Business
Job Purpose:
Code the design and layout of a website according to specifications. As the role takes into consideration user experience and function, a certain level of both graphic design and computer programming is necessary.
Responsibilities:
- Website and software application designing, building, and maintaining.
- Directing or performing Website updates.
- Developing or validating test routines and schedules.
- Maintaining and understanding of the latest Web applications and programming practices.
- Identifying problems uncovered by customer feedback and testing, and correcting.
- Evaluating code to ensure it meets industry standards, is valid, is properly structured, and is compatible with browsers, devices, or operating systems
- Determining user needs by analyzing technical requirements
Requirements:
- Solid knowledge and experience in programming applications
- Proficient in: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and NoSQL
- Sound knowledge in Libraries and Frameworks: ReactJS, NextJS, GraphQL, Bootstrap and jQuery
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Solid ability in both written and verbal communication
- Able to develop ideas and processes and clearly express them
- Able to solve complex problems
- Ability to learn quickly and achieve goals in timely manner
Educational Qualification:
BTech in Computer Science or a related subject
Experience:
2-year work experience as a website developer preferably in react.js
App Developer
Function/Department: Digital Media, Media Business
Job Purpose:
Develop high performance native applications for mobile phones and tablets. The primary focus will be to implement new user interfaces and features together with automated unit and integration tests.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build advanced mobile applications.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies
Requirements:
- Proven working experience in software development
- Working experience in app development
- Have published one or more apps in the app store
- A deep knowledge in Swift /Java/Kotlin/Flutter
- Experience working with frameworks
- Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
- Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies
- Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle
- Ability to learn quickly and achieve goals in timely manner
Educational Qualification:
BTech in Computer Science or a related subject
Experience:
2-year work experience as mobile app developer
SEO Executive
Function/Department: Digital Media, Media Business
Job Purpose:
Monitor search algorithms set by search engines to keep up with changes in the SEO landscape. Develop and integrate content marketing strategies. Use social media to distribute content.
Responsibilities:
- Work with editorial team to drive SEO in content creation.
- Work with the development team to ensure SEO best practices are properly implemented.
- Recommend changes to website architecture, content, linking and other factors to improve SEO positions.
- Review and analyze sites and articles for areas that can be improved and optimized
- Prepare detailed strategy reports
- Identify powerful keywords for articles and sites
- Write effective SEO content for articles, websites, and social media accounts
- Keep updated on SEO strategies and algorithms
- Compile and present SEO guidelines
- Execute tests, collect, and analyze data, identify trends and insights to achieve maximum search visibility and reach
- Optimize articles and landing pages
- Perform ongoing keyword discovery, expansion, and optimization
- Research and implement search engine optimization recommendations
Requirements:
- Prior experience in content marketing, content growth and SEO
- Working knowledge of search engine optimization practices
- Outstanding ability to think creatively, strategically, and identify and resolve problems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skill
- Ability to work within a team and independently
- Knowledge of tools like Google Keywords Trends and Search Console
- Experience with website optimization tools
- Strong organizational, time management, and analytical skills
Educational Qualification:
Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline from a recognized university. Qualification in Journalism will be an added advantage.
Experience:
2-year work experience as seo executive/analyst
Content Creator (News)
Function/Department: Social Media
Job Purpose:
Content creators are to ideate, create and publish contents to adhering to the business KPIs
Responsibilities:
- Creating, writing copy (clear, customised, concise), Writing captions, translations, scripts and creating content for social media, website and other digital platforms (in Malayalam (primarily) and English) based on periodically assigned targets.
- Network with programme producers or other content creators and editing and uploading of the content ensuring quality as per guidelines we have for our websites and social media.
- Responsible for monitoring the quality of Web & Social media content.
- To periodically analyse (including cross team feedback) and report content performance, create plans to improve, get approvals and execute the same. Reports of the same to be managed.
- Organized self- starter, self- motivated trouble shooter with the ability to work independently, multi- task, and handle time sensitive material in a fast- paced work environment
- Brainstorming content ideas with members of the product team and Content Creation Team.
- Must maintain a good working knowledge of all social media platforms and industry standards
- Liaison efficiently and seamlessly within the team, department and the organisation to enable his team towards meeting the brand KPI’s
- Creative & imaginative with excellent communication skills.
- Get relevant certifications to improve the performance at task
- Get proficient in creating all necessary content collaterals
- Ensure promptness in uploading contents to social media & web
- Planning and managing contents for eventful days.
- Contribute towards improving the processes within the system
Requirements:
- A keen eye for aesthetics and details.
- An expert level command over the English and Malayalam Language
- Experience with content creation, videography, presenting, and/or editing videos.
- Understanding of Digital & Social Ecosystem, be up to date with latest trends
- Team Player
- Excellent interpersonal as well as written and verbal communication skills.
- A good multitasker who can work within tight deadline
- Content creation adhering to the guidelines
Preferred Qualification:
Masters in any discipline/ MCJ/ Degree in any discipline with a diploma in Journalism
Experience:
0 – 3 years
Graphic Designer
Function /Department: Social Media (News)
Job Purpose:
To ideate and create with Content Creators, Copywriters, Video Editors and the Social Media Managers to conceptualise and create effective digital visualisations.
Responsibilities:
- Design creation of ads and other digital assets - Expert with proficiency in multiple design software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
- Knowledge of graphic design principles, layout, images, typography, colour and branding to ensure objective is achieved and quality required is maintained
- Ability to work independently and handle many projects simultaneously - must be able to meet aggressive deadlines for creative-driven work.
- Ability to determine requirements, recommend and create visual solutions based on the brief and sometimes by creating own brief.
- Excellent people skills and flexibility in dealing with changing schedules and multiple points of view
- Ensuring Content Quality & hygiene standards which are optimized for social media
- Consult with brands/clients' marketing, copywriting, editorial and sales teams to create cohesive designs that reflect brands/clients' corporate cultures/goals/message
Requirements:
- A keen understanding of the news ecosystem
- Proven graphic designing experience with highly creative mind and innovative thinking capabilities
- Advance knowledge with design software and technologies (such as Illustrator, Photoshop)
- A keen eye for aesthetics and details.
- Understanding of Social Ecosystem & be up to date with latest trends
- Excellent communication skills
- Team Player
Preferred Qualification:
Degree/Diploma in relevant stream
Experience:
1 – 3 years
Video Editor
Function /Department: Social Media
Job Purpose:
Work closely with various stakeholders in the social media team to manage all aspects of the raw footage and audio to deliver high quality and impactful video content as per the requirements of various social media platforms.
Responsibilities
- Video Production – Scripting, Storyboarding, Editing & Audio Editing
- Advanced knowledge of FCP, Adobe After effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
- Ability to work independently and handle many projects simultaneously - must be able to meet aggressive deadlines for creative-driven work.
- Ability to recommend and create visual solutions based on the brief.
- Excellent people skills and flexibility in dealing with changing schedules and multiple points of view
- Ensuring Content Quality & hygiene standards which are optimized for social media.
Requirements
- Highly creative mind and innovative thinking capabilities
- Understanding of Social Ecosystem & be up to date with latest trends
- Advanced knowledge of software to be used
- Team Player
- Good communication (written and verbal) skills
Preferred Qualification:
Degree/Diploma in relevant stream
Experience
1 - 3 years
Content Producer
Function /Department: Social Media
Job Purpose:
Ideate and produce with the social media team, objective and engaging social media concepts, campaigns and videos adhering to the editorial guidelines, polices and requirement of the brand/department.
Responsibilities
- Brainstorming, ideating, documenting social media concepts, campaigns and video ideas with members of the product and design teams.
- Work with the team to produce, publish, promote the above mentioned social media concepts, campaigns and videos in a time bound manner.
- Has to be aware and has to maintain the various technical guidelines, community guidelines of the brand/department and various social media platforms to ensure optimum performance in all the work that is done
- Be skilled in writing in English and Malayalam.
- Optimising social media productions with regards to language, tone, message, based on our target audience behaviour & social platform.
- To maintain a great and nurturing work environment in the department and among the colleagues.
- Has to take in and give feedbacks to ensure the department is on course it’s targets and goals
Requirements
- An expert level working understanding of how social media productions are done
- Highly creative mind and innovative thinking capabilities
- A keen eye for aesthetics and details.
- An expert level grasp over the English and Malayalam Language
- Team Player
- Understanding of Social Media Ecosystem & be up to date with latest trends
- Excellent interpersonal as well as written and verbal communication skills.
- A good multitasker who can work within tight deadline
- Content creation adhering to the guidelines and polices of the brand/department
Preferred Qualification
Masters/ Degree in any discipline
Experience
1 to 3 years’ experience in digital content production
Copy Writer
Function /Department: Social Media
Job Purpose
Copywriters are to ideate and create with the social media team objective and engaging concepts, copies, content, scripts etc fit for social media for campaigns, creatives and videos adhering to the editorial guidelines of the brand/department.
Responsibilities
- Brainstorming visual and copy ideas with members of the product team and Design Team.
- Creative & imaginative with excellent communication skills.
- Ability to write clear, customised, concise & grammatically correct copy for various social platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and Instagram, YouTube and more.
- Be skilled in writing in English and Malayalam.
- Optimising social media posts with regards to language, tone, message, based on our target audience behaviour & social platform.
- Ideate and develop marketing content like contests, social media ads, classifieds, landing pages, banners and websites etc. for various social media platforms.
- Working together with Social Media Manager to ensure page quality wrt to the online reputation management.
- Experience in Web Content Writing.
- Writing creative taglines, slogans, scripts, storyboard for ads & contents.
Requirements
- Highly creative mind and innovative thinking capabilities
- A keen eye for aesthetics and details.
- An expert level grasp over the English and Malayalam Language
- Team Player
- Understanding of Social Ecosystem & be up to date with latest trends
- Excellent interpersonal as well as written and verbal communication skills.
- A good multitasker who can work within tight deadline
- Content creation adhering to the guidelines
Qualification
Masters/ Degree in any discipline
Experience
1 - 3 years experience writing copy or content for social media
Senior Social Media Strategist
Function /Department: Social Media
Job Purpose:
- To strategize the way forward for the social media brands/department, aligning the strategy to the short term and long term goals of the said brands and make regular course corrections to the same
- To ideate, plan and collaborate with the product, sales and the social media teams to execute the strategies towards attaining the KPI’s.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and manage social media strategies towards the brand goals and KPI’s
- Introspect & brainstorm creative ideas that drive strategy, content & campaigns
- Coordination with the product teams for their requirements in order to meet their respective deadlines and manage their end to end social media
- Stay up to date with the latest social media best practices and technologies
- Work with content creators to ensure content is informative and appealing
- Plan, create & execute campaigns, calendars and schedules
- Review and approve content on a daily basis
- Monitor and analyze the effectiveness of content and campaigns
- Aware of UI/UX, SEO techniques and can manage and analyze organic traffic.
- Working knowledge of keyword research, competitive research & analysis, content optimization.
- Good communication and organizational skills, eye for detail, aesthetics and brand identity and a goal-oriented mindset tuned to achieving objectives.
- To flag and counter strategize anomalies related to the brands on the digital realm.
- To review, audit and prepare periodic reports of the brands performance aligning to the preset goals and KPI’s.
- Ensure cross brand ideation and support
Requirements
- Positive attitude, detail and customer oriented with good multitasking and organizational ability
- Planning & Prioritisation
- Understanding of Social Ecosystem
- Good communication (written and verbal) skills
- Creative thinking
- Strong Analytical Capabilities
- People Management skills
- Decision Making skills
Educational Qualification
- Analysis and management certifications - At Least 3 (Google Analytics, Facebook Blueprint, YouTube Certification, Google Ads etc)
- Strong hold over the English and Malayalam language
- Hands-on experience in content management across social channels
- Hands-on exposure to the campaign, goal setting, tracking and targeting.
Experience
5- 7 years
Social Media Strategist
Function /Department: Social Media
Job Purpose:
- To strategize the way forward for the social media brands, aligning the strategy to the short term and long term goals of the said brands and make regular course corrections to the same.
- To ideate, plan and collaborate with the product, sales and the social media teams to execute the strategies towards attaining the KPI’s.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and manage social media strategies towards the brand goals and KPI’s
- Introspect & brainstorm creative ideas that drive strategy, content & campaigns
- Coordination with the product teams for their requirements in order to meet their respective deadlines and manage their end to end social media
- Stay up to date with the latest social media best practices and technologies
- Work with content creators to ensure content is informative and appealing
- Plan, create & execute campaigns, calendars and schedules
- Review and approve content on a daily basis
- Monitor and analyze the effectiveness of content and campaigns
- Aware of UI/UX, SEO techniques and can manage and analyze organic traffic.
- Working knowledge of keyword research, competitive research & analysis, content optimization.
- Good communication and organizational skills, eye for detail, aesthetics and brand identity and a goal-oriented mindset tuned to achieving objectives.
- To flag and counter strategize anomalies related to the brands on the digital realm.
- To review, audit and prepare periodic reports of the brands performance aligning to the preset goals and KPI’s.
- Ensure cross brand ideation and support
Requirements
- Positive attitude, detail and customer oriented with good multitasking and organizational ability
- Planning & Prioritisation
- Understanding of Social Ecosystem
- Good communication (written and verbal) skills
- Creative thinking
- Strong Analytical Capabilities
- People Management skills
- Decision Making skills
Preferred Educational Qualification
- Analysis and management certifications - At Least 3 (Google Analytics, Facebook Blueprint, YouTube Certification, Google Ads etc)
- Strong hold over the English and Malayalam language
- Hands-on experience in content management across social channels
- Hands-on exposure to the campaign, goal setting, tracking and targeting.
Experience
3- 5 years
Social Media Strategist – Content Marketing
Function /Department: Social Media
Job Purpose:
To work with the respective content team to develop and execute inbound and outbound marketing strategies to build a brand identity and online presence through the creation and dissemination of multimedia content online; involves developing content strategies, rolling out PPC campaigns etc.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and manage social media marketing strategies towards the brand goals and KPI’s
- Creating, developing & implementing effective long- and short-term paid search strategies with good ROAS.
- Tracking daily, weekly & monthly KPIs to identify opportunities for improvement
- Introspect & brainstorm creative ideas that drive inbound and outbound marketing strategies & campaigns
- Staying up-to-date with PPC/SEM trends and techniques, and applying them where relevant.
- Work with content creators to ensure content is aligned towards marketing goals
- Plan, create & execute campaigns, calendars and schedules
- Expert knowledge of keyword research, competitive research & analysis, content optimization.
- Good communication and organizational skills, eye for detail, aesthetics and brand identity and a goal-oriented mindset tuned to achieving objectives.
- To flag and counter strategize anomalies related to the brands on the digital realm.
- To review, audit and prepare periodic reports of the brands performance aligning to the pre-set goals and KPI’s.
- Ensure cross brand ideation and support
Requirements
- Proven work experience in Content marketing.
- Experience with multiple platforms, e.g. Google Ads, Facebook Ads.
- Ability to predict audience preferences with an editorial mindset.
- Hands-on experience with SEO and web traffic metrics
- You’ll need strong analytical and numeracy skills, and be confident translating large amounts of data into comprehensible or visual reports.
- Excellent communication, both verbal and written, and experience presenting reports and optimisations.
- Project management skills and attention to detail.
- Positive attitude, detail and customer oriented with good multitasking and organizational ability
- Creative thinking
- People Management skills
- Decision Making skills
- Knowledge of Data Studio and/or other data visualization tools is a plus
Preferred Educational Qualification
- Analysis and management certifications - At Least 3 (Google Analytics, Facebook Blueprint, YouTube Certification, Google Ads etc)
Experience
Minimum 3 - 5 years' experience as a PPC Manager or Digital Marketing Specialist focused on SEM.
Data Analyst
Function /Department: Social Media
Job Purpose:
Forecast trends & develop analytical models to steer the department on course to achieve its targets by using online analytic data, market research data, process and procedure data etc.
Responsibilities:
- Knowledgeable and experienced in Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, Crowdtangle, YouTube Insights, TweetDeck, App store analytics and various tools for performance management and goal tracking
- To design and develop a performance driven system for the team and individuals to audit relevant aspects of their KRA’s
- To monitor, alert and report towards the departments objectives
- Strong analytical skills and experience with measurement and reporting.
- Effective in written and verbal communication
- Hands on experience in data visualisation tools like Google Data Visualisation tools, the office suites, VB etc and slice and dice as per the business requirement.
- Ability to create and share automated reports for business KPIs across verticals to drive effective decision making.
- Should be able to collaborate with business teams to capture dynamic consumer behaviour so as to correctly aligns its business KPI’s
- Develop data driven methodologies providing cross channel insight into the effectiveness of our various campaigns
- Proactively monitor social, web and mobile data to identify customer struggle/pain points, providing regular reporting and identifying ways of improving user experience
- Take ownership of analytical projects end to end from extracting and exploring data, generating hypotheses, building a structured analysis, and rigorously evaluating methods and results
- Page level and Event level tracking using relevant tracking mechanisms.
- Provide continuous analysis and recommendations to meet the department goals and benchmarks on Social Media Platforms
- Coordinate with the Social Media Manager and the Marketing/product teams to plan, schedule, execute, correct course and generate reports for FB advertising campaigns
- To flag anomalies related to any brands on the digital realm in advance
- Providing constructive criticism to content creators to help them make improvements.
- Researching new social media trends and tools.
- Keeping abreast of current events and pop culture to better understand user behavior.
Requirements
- Ability to solve unstructured business problems
- Alignment to strategic planning
- Understanding of Social/digital Ecosystem and its terminologies & Being up to date with latest research and data visualisation trends
- Effective communication (presentation, written and verbal) skills
- Strong analytic & critical thinking skills
- Accuracy and attention to details
- Interest in psychology and consumer behavior
- Knowledge of programming languages like R and Python is a plus.
Preferred Qualification
Google Analytics, YouTube, Facebook Blueprint certifications are preferable.Knowledge of programming languages like R and Python is a plus.
Experience
1 – 3 years’ experience
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