FB hiring producer for motion picture content

The social networking giant is looking for a film producer, which was posted to LinkedIn six days ago. The producer  is to develop, script, produce and edit shareable motion picture content. 

Facebook is also hiring a “software engineer, film” whose job will be “integrating footage from creative teams into our content rendering engine to produce new personalised videos.” “Last year we started to invest in more original video content to help seed the ecosystem. We plan to do  more in 2017,” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO said. 

Facebook makes personalised videos for its 1.9 billion users on anniversaries of notable events in their lives. “There’s also a listing for a production lead for media partnerships, based in Los Angeles. This person will work with ‘creators, studios and media companies around the world to produce video programming  that is well-suited for new and emerging consumption patterns and mobile and social viewing experiences’,” the report said. 

The company’s CFO David Wehner noted that Facebook was “kick-starting” the production of longer-form content on its sites. YouTube already has gained enough ground that has been working with user-generated video for a decade.