Lead Producer, VMPN
A full time position
Fully remote: working with a USA-based team at Vox Media.
As the leading independent modern media company, Vox Media ignites conversations and influences culture. Across digital, podcasts, TV, streaming, live events, and print, we tell stories that affect our audience's daily lives and entertain as much as they inform.
Our portfolio features influential and respected editorial properties including Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Cut, Eater, Vulture, The Strategist, Polygon, SB Nation, Intelligencer, Curbed, Grub Street, and Recode. Off-platform, the Vox Media Podcast Network offers one of the largest collections of popular podcasts, and Vox Media Studios produces and distributes the award-winning nonfiction shows. Powered by innovative technology that scales quality, the Chorus publishing platform and Concert advertising marketplace answer the always-changing needs of modern audiences, creators and marketers.
Vox Media has been named one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies in Media,” an Inc. “Company of the Year,” Digiday’s “Best Company for Parents,” and one of the Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign.
As Lead Producer at the Vox Media Podcast Network, your work will span production and development: managing weekly delivery of popular talk/interview shows, and collaborating with teams across the company to pilot new podcasts.
For always-on shows, you'll collaborate with hosts to plan, script, record, and deliver episodes on a deadline that meet VMPN's standards of editorial excellence. On these shows, you may also oversee the work of Associate Producers/Engineers.
You'll also play a lead role in new show development, creating a project plan to guide strong pitches through the piloting process and internal evaluation (and potentially, up to launch).
This is a dynamic role that's ideal for a versatile producer: someone who excels at hands-on weekly production and has a background in producing successful talk shows, and also seeks to lead creative teams embarking on new projects and audio experiments.
What you’ll bring:
- Confidence in delivering a weekly show on deadline.
- Expertise producing across a variety of podcast formats and coordinating/supporting host talent, including hosts who are newer to podcasting
- Experience leading a show piloting or show development process with multiple stakeholders
- A portfolio that demonstrates an ear for great tape and inventive approaches to talk/interview show formats
- Proficiency in audio mixing
- A track record of developing stories that draw on diverse perspectives/source lists
- Strong collaborative skills, as well as the ability to delegate and prioritize effectively
- Experience/interest in the business-side processes entailed in podcast launches; enthusiasm for cross-team collaboration with marketing and audience engagement
About working at Vox Media:
This is a permanent, full-time position with excellent benefits—including flexible hours and generous parental leave. Vox Media strives to provide comprehensive healthcare options for our employees and to ensure that our healthcare and other benefits are LGBTQ-inclusive. You'll be joining a group of focused, hard-working, creative people who are passionate about doing work that's challenging and fun—and who strive to maintain a healthy work/life balance.
Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.
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