POSITION TITLE: Web Producer
DEPARTMENT: Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Team
REPORTS TO: Manager, Web Production, Creative Services
DURATION: Full Time Contractor, duration thru 11/30/2010
LOCATION: Playa Vista, CA
X PRIZE FOUNDATION
The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured world headlines when Burt Rutan, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world’s first private vehicle to space to win the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE. The Foundation has since launched the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, and the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. The Foundation is creating and conducting competitions in four prize groups: Exploration (Space and Oceans), Life Sciences, Energy & Environment, and Education & Global Development. The Foundation is widely recognized as the leader in fostering innovation through competition. For more information, please visit www.xprize.org.
PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE AUTOMOTIVE X PRIZE
The goal of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE is to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles that will help break our addition to oil and stem the effects of climate change. Ten million dollars in prizes will be awarded to the teams that win a stage race for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPGe (miles per gallon or its equivalent).
The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE will place a major focus on affordability, safety, and the environment. The competition is about developing real, production-capable cars that consumers want to buy – not science projects or concept cars. This progress is needed because today’s oil consumption is unsustainable and because automotive emissions significantly contribute to global warming and climate change. For more information about the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, please visit www.progressiveautoxprize.org.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
The main function of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE Web Producer is to curate, aggregate, and create high quality content that is organized and accessible through our websites and social media services. In addition, the position will also provide for the advocating, educating, and coordinating the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE teams in the use, development, and posting of digital content to various sites, using various tools and managing those assets to maximize exposure and branding of the competition. The key responsibilities of this job are the following:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
X PRIZE and YOU
We offer a full range of employment benefits including medical, dental, short-term and long-term disability, LIFE, long-term care and an employee assistant program all paid in full by the organization for our regular full-time employees.
The X PRIZE Foundation was established in 1995, attracting leaders in the fields of Life Sciences (Genomics, Medicine, etc), Space, Energy, Environment, Social Welfare, Automotive Technology and more. This position is for someone who will be dedicated to making an impact here at the X PRIZE Foundation and ultimately in the world at large. We are a small and rapidly growing organization, who will value your ideas and advice and are looking for people who will thrive in our fast paced, small group environment.
X PRIZE CULTURE
Our goals are as lofty as they come; where only through entrepreneurial persistence and visionary thinking are solutions to seemingly insurmountable social, technological and environmental issues made possible.
While we externally strive to create a better world, we are internally working to build a culture that supports the kind of passionate, forward thinking people we need to help deliver radical breakthrough solutions to today's most critical and meaningful challenges.
To this end, we are working together to create an environment that fosters learning and growth and encourages creativity, transparency, and diversity.
The X PRIZE FOUNDATION offers a comprehensive compensation package to our employee’s which includes the following benefits:
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- Domestic Partner Benefit Coverage
- Year End Discretionary Bonus Program
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- 401K
- FSA
The X PRIZE FOUNDATION is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate in employment. Equal access to employment, services, and programs is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the organization.
Please note: Though submitting a resume to the X PRIZE FOUNDATION implies that you are interested in a position(s), it does not imply that you are an applicant. You are not considered an applicant until you have been contacted directly by a Human Resources representative requesting that you begin the designated application process, which may involve phone and/or in-person interview(s), job-related testing, and background checking.