“Our digital properties are leading the digital music revolution,” said Tyler Goldman, BUZZMEDIA CEO.  “Stereogum, Idolator, Buzznet, and PureVolume, along with our ten other music properties, are category leaders, engaging over 40 million passionate music fans. With the addition of Bill, Kim, and Nicole to our team, I’m confident that BUZZ Music will continue to capture the enormous and expanding global audience for music.”

As Vice President/General Manager of Music, Bill Jensen will oversee the editorial content and strategic development of BUZZMEDIA’s 14 music properties.   Jensen joins BUZZMEDIA from Village Voice Media, where, as Director of New Media, he led the transformation of VVM from a legacy weekly newspaper chain into a multi-platform digital powerhouse, increasing its revenue by 800% and growing its online traffic by 400%.   Jensen also led the development and marketing of VVM’s mobile applications, which have been downloaded to date by more than 1.5 million users in the Android and iTunes stores.

“Our portfolio of leading music properties provides must-visit daily destinations for tens of millions of active music fans,” Jensen said.  “People come to BUZZMEDIA properties to discover new music, to learn, and to get involved in the influential communities we’ve built around their favorite artists.  Digital platforms revolutionized music content, and BUZZMEDIA brands lead the category because we’re unique in our ability to provide exhaustive content in addition to a credible filter, authoritative voice and context.”

As Director of Music Content and Industry Relations, Kim Persse is the primary liaison between BUZZMEDIA and the artist community.   She was previously at AOL, where she helped lead overall content strategy, managed partnerships, and executed sales initiatives as Managing Editor for AOL’s music properties.

Nicole Cullinane is BUZZMEDIA’s new Executive Producer of Music Programming.  Cullinane comes to BUZZ from MTV Digital in New York.  She’s also worked as an editor for Time Inc. and Hearst, and written for AOL, New York, People, and Publishers Weekly, among others.

ABOUT BUZZMEDIA

BUZZMEDIA is the leader in pop culture and millennial audience reach – the  world’s fastest-growing digital media company with more than 100 million monthly unique visitors. The over 35 BUZZMEDIA brands – including Celebuzz, Stereogum, Videogum, Buzznet, TheSuperficial, Idolator, Just Jared, Just Jared Jr., PureVolume, Hype Machine, Absolute Punk, What Would Tyler Durden Do?, SocialiteLife, Go Fug Yourself, Pink is the New Blog, Gorilla vs. Bear, RCRD LBL, TheFrisky, Egotastic!, Concrete Loop, Brooklyn Vegan, Crunktastical, Punknews.org, and others- are category-leading, authentic, influential voices. BUZZMEDIA is currently the fifth largest Web destination among adults 18-24. Via comScore, the company is the second largest digital publisher in Entertainment News and the tenth largest in Music. BUZZMEDIA uses its massive reach, deep audience engagement, and understanding of the young adult audience to provide customized, innovative marketing and advertising solutions across its branded properties.

For BUZZMEDIA                                                                         

Gillian Sheldon – gsheldon(at)buzz-media.com

BUZZMEDIA is a community of pop culture addicts, music lovers and trendsetters who come together to share content around topics they are passionate about, particularly music, fashion and celebrity news.

We are looking for a Recruitment intern who is:

• Reliable to assist the Head of Recruiting in-office 2-3 + days a week/20 + hours    per week

Duties:

• Assist with candidate flow and set up phone interviews
• Reach out to candidates and provide directions and answer any pre-interview questions
• Gather paperwork from candidates
• Coordinate interviews with hiring managers and schedule accordingly
• Input and management of the Applicant Tracking System (will train)
• Post jobs on appropriate job boards and manage flow of candidates

Skills required:

• Must be a pop culture enthusiast and like to have fun at work
• Be organized and good with administrative duties
• Have an interest in learning about Human Resources and Recruiting
• Must have high energy level and positive attitude
• Strong writing skills are required
• Knowledge of calendars
• Must have a passion for knowledge, hungry for learning and willing to contribute
• Excellent with MS Suite of products, Mac and PC’s

Please send a cover letter and resume to careers(at)buzz-media.com

RadarOnline.com is a leading entertainment, celebrity news and gossip site. Re-launched in 2009, the site reaches nearly 2 million unique visitors per month and continues to deliver exclusive breaking news and gossip!

DATA AND FUN FACTS:

A Highly Engaged and Social Audience

• 2.7 minutes per average visitor
• 4+ social networking profiles (193 Index)
• Fans/followers of brands (192 Index) and celebs (177 Index)

Pop Culture, Shopping and Music Influentials

• Provide frequent advice online on shopping (215 Index), websites (178 Index) & politics/current events (162 Index)

Heavy Online Spenders: Music, Hotels and Auctions

• In the last 6 months, they spent heavily on music (214 Index), auctions (322 Index) & hotels (176 Index)

WHAT THE MEDIA SAYS:

Radar Online is the ultimate destination for breaking celebrity news and cutting edge pop culture.

- Gawker

Radar Online is the fastest growing celebrity website with hot-off-the-web exclusive content.

- MarketWatch

Nielsen @plan Rel 4, 2010

Candidate can (and should) have an insatiable passion for any genre of music, but we ask that they have a working knowledge of pop music and the big artists we cover on a daily basis – Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna, Kanye, Lil Wayne, Britney, Adele, Jay-Z, etc.

He or she will be extremely detail-oriented and help the Idolator team produce fun and newsworthy pieces on a daily basis. This is a hands-on experience – you won’t be getting coffee for anyone. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to, updating our social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.), researching new projects, covering/reviewing live shows, blogging weekly about TV shows (ie. Glee, The X Factor) and possibly interviewing music acts.

Please email nicole(at)buzz-media.com with a resume and cover letter, letting us know why you think you’d be a great fit. Please contact us ASAP if interested, as we’re looking to fill the position right away. Internship can be for school credit or to gain experience working with online media. Must be able to come into the Hollywood office a minimum of two times a week.

Looking for interns who are:

Reliable, trust- worthy, highly motivated intern to assist with production of talent/super user online content. Well versed in pop culture, music and fashion. Must be available to work in the office two days a week.

Skills Required

• Must be interested and have some background of social media, promotions, marketing
• Have an eye for trends in youth music, fashion and pop culture
• Knowledge of Photoshop is a plus

The production intern will be responsible for:

• Assist producing various talent’s online content
• Assisting with production at video/photo shoots
• Researching trends in music, fashion, pop culture
• Talent fan site outreach and seeding
• Utilizing Stumbleupon to drive traffic back to Buzznet
• Offering researched ideas and theories on ways to grow external traffic

Please contact Buzznet’s Producer Kate Cordova on kcordova@buzz-media.com with a cover letter and resume.

This is a big job and the reward potential is huge; the Senior Product Manager’s work will service hundreds of major brands and agencies that rely on BUZZMEDIA’s properties and ad products to drive sales across BUZZMEDIA’s huge audience.

Desired Skills & Experience

Responsibilities:

• Develop and align product strategy and roadmap with corporate KPIs
• Write business and product requirements to evaluate, build and market
• Collaborate with the UI, business development, marketing and engineering teams on PRDs/Agile user stories, UI specs, development schedules and launch plans
• Work with external partners on product releases and serve as a representative of the company’s product to key partners and investors
• Coordinate the communication of product launch features and customer benefits and ensure they are clearly explained to internal stakeholders
• Actively monitor key product metrics and KPIs
• Act as category expert within the company, backed up with competitive and market analyses
• Evaluate existing and new products to provide constructive ideas for change

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a product manager for massively adopted consumer Internet services
• Deep experience with advertising products and services (both ad products themselves and injection, targeting and serving frameworks) across multiple channels and mediums
• Strong experience presenting and collaborating on product design and definition with cross-functional teams
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science; MS CS or MBA a big plus
• Outstanding body of work that demonstrates high quality, innovative deliverables and an exceptional understanding of consumer Internet behavior
• Familiarity with collaborative tools such as wikis, bug-tracking systems and commonly used corporate software
• Solid understanding of prominent Web, advertising, social, mobile, and video platforms
• Ability to work with partners and other external parties in a professional and polished manner
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities based on market trends & and sales initiatives
• Able to understand complex technical concepts
• Excellent command of English

Please send cover letter and resume to careers@buzz-media.com

BUZZMEDIA is the largest independent publisher of all things entertainment and music. We own and operate over 40 high traffic website brands with over 100 million visitors a month, including celebuzz.com, thefrisky.com, theSuperficial.com, wwtdd.com, stereogum,com, purevolume.com, buzznet.com and many others. Our Headquarters are in the heart of Hollywood, and we have offices in NYC and San Francisco. We are growing with lots of new initiatives and are seeking to add superstars and overachievers to our group. Our culture is fast paced and fun! We offer competitive salaries and stock options as well as great benefits that include vision, dental and a cafeteria of options for Healthcare, plus a 401K.

We are looking for fashion interns who are:

• Interested in fashion and familiar with both high fashion and “Buzznet” type fringe fashion (ie Jeffrey Campbell, Sober is Sexy, Tokyo Lux etc)
• Well versed in fashion blogs and websites
• Reliable, enthusiastic

Skills required:

Please contact Buzznet’s Fashion Editor Yasi Salek on ysalek@buzz-media.com with a cover letter and resume.

Marketing & Promotions Intern:

Buzznet’s marketing department seeks a highly motivated intern to assist with promotions, social media, and content distribution.  The ideal candidate should have prior experience in marketing or publicity for a new media company or website (ideally in the entertainment/music realm).  He or she should be familiar with Buzznet.com and the BuzzMedia family of websites.

The marketing intern will be responsible for:

• Assisting marketing manager with contests and promotions including (but not limited to):
  • Contest landing page production
  • Winner selection and outreach
  • Prize fulfillment
• Assisting the marketing manager daily with growing external referrals through distributing Buzznet content to external sites and social networks and maintaining Buzznet’s external marketing practices by:
  • Fansite outreach and seeding
  • Facebook marketing (posting content to facebook walls and fan pages)
  • Utilizing Stumbleupon to drive traffic back to Buzznet
  • Tumblr posts + submissions
  • Uploading live concert photography to Buzznet’s Flickr, Friendsorenemies, Tumblr and other properties
  • Maintaining marketing department’s Fansite database/contact sheet
  • Offering researched ideas and theories on ways to grow external traffic

The marketing intern should ideally be available to work from the Buzznet office in Hollywood 1-2 days per week plus 2-3 hours from home on the remaining week days.

Please contact Buzznet’s Marketing Manager Elise Feuerbacher at efeuerbacher@buzz-media.com with a cover letter and resume.

We are looking for Pop Culture interns who are:

• Reliable intern to assist the Pop Culture Editor in-office 2-3 days a week

Skills required:

• Must be a pop culture enthusiast and knowledgeable of a range of celebrities
• Research upcoming movies and TV shows for the current season
• Recapping current, popular TV shows
• Writing timely news pieces on movie/TV/celebrity news that are of interest to the Buzznet audience
• Building and maintaining a current season guide to TV and movies
• Strong writing skills are required
• Knowledge of Photoshop is a plus
• Follower of a specific TV show is a MAJOR plus

Strong writing skills important. Please contact Buzznet’s Pop Culture Editor Patty Gopez on pgopez@buzz-media.com with a cover letter and resume.

Skills:

• FCP 7
• After Effects
• Graphic Design
• Photoshop
• Other post production skills including sound editing, color correction, compression and work flow organization

Please send a cover letter and resume to jsanto@buzz-media.com