Assistant Producer

at  Travelzoo

Travelzoo is seeking an Assistant Producer in our Chicago office. Our Production team is responsible for developing the deals we recommend for our members. This requires a balance of activities, including research, writing, evaluating, test booking, consulting with clients, working with Sales, and recommending the best offers to our Publishers for approval. The ideal candidate will have a media background and a passion for exploring the world.

Do you feel…

• Motivated to build client relationships that result in the best offers for our members, while balancing the clients’ need to see top performance for their offers
• Capable of researching offers to determine their true value and concisely convey why we recommend them for our members
• Keen on sifting through a variety of offers to find the very best ones and push them forward
• Excited to test book and update ongoing deals and pitch your best deals to Publishers
• Ready to work closely with Sales counterparts to develop new client relationships and grow current ones
• Able to monitor and analyze performance; make adjustments and recommendations in order to ensure our members see the best deals and clients’ expectations are met

You are ideally…

• Degree educated, preferably in Journalism, Advertising, Communications, Marketing or Hospitality
• A rising professional with 1-2 years of experience, including direct experience in a related field (Digital Media, PR, Advertising)
• A high performer with strong work ethic and sound judgement
• An excellent communicator with strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills
• Fluent in another language beyond English preferred; experience living internationally even better
• Someone with a proven passion for travel, including experience booking personal travel

• Empathetic with a hands-on and innovative working style

  What’s in it for you…

• Broaden your horizon by working with a global team and potentially in a different country

• Experience one of our travel deals first-hand each year, with additional vacation days and a travel budget – we call it the Travelzoo Experience
• We recognize your achievements with our employee awards
• Enjoy working like an entrepreneur? Our flat hierarchies will provide you with this opportunity
• Travelzoo supports a hybrid working model which allows US-based employees to work remotely two days per week, with three weekly in-office collaboration days
• Is life-long learning important to you? We offer online and offline learning options
• We offer competitive compensation and benefit packages

If you are excited about this opportunity and feel intrigued by our values of “leading by example”, “warm heart”, “cool head” and “working hands”, then we would like to get to know you

Please refer the Job description for details