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Content Writer

• Write a weekly City Cast Twin Cities newsletter with a clear point of view and a strong, engaging voice.
• Research and report on your beat, developing sources and staying ahead of trends.
• Write thoughtful, upbeat copy featuring good news, local tips, or special recommendations that leave readers feeling informed and inspired.
• Collaborate closely with the City Cast Twin Cities team and work with the Executive Producer through the editing process to sharpen structure, clarity, and impact.
• Take photos and source photos to craft a more visually interesting newsletter.
• Meet consistent deadlines and maintain high editorial standards.
• Bonus: Discuss your reporting and recommendations on the City Cast Twin Cities podcast when appropriate.

Writer – Twin Cities-Focused Newsletter

Producer

• Manage scheduling and communication with podcast hosts across the City Cast network about their appearances on the show
• Communicate episode prep expectations with city teams across the City Cast network, ensuring every guest arrives ready
• Coordinate the weekly pitch process: remind city teams of submission deadlines, send pitches to the show’s host for selection, and relay decisions back to the team
• Review weekly interview prep and provide light editorial feedback
• Occasionally vet pitches from listeners, including preinterviewing guests outside the City Cast network
• Produce episode recordings in Riverside
• Edit episodes in Descript for editorial clarity and narrative flow, flagging potential social clips and noting cuts that will carry through to the video version
• Edit podcast video in Adobe Premiere using Autopod
• Edit and mix audio in Adobe Creative Suite, applying Izotope effects for professional, polished sound
• Write and finalize show notes and episode title options, adapting both for each of the 14 city feeds
• Create episode thumbnails in Canva, including sourcing screenshots from Riverside, removing backgrounds, and building out the graphic
• Upload and schedule each episode to the CityCastUSA YouTube channel, including thumbnail, title, show notes, and playlist management
• Schedule each episode across 14 distinct Megaphone feeds weekly, customizing titles for each feed with careful attention to detail
• Conduct a final QC listen-through of the audio version and a review of the YouTube upload before each episode goes live
• Create social clips from podcast episodes for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook
• Write compelling captions and apply thoughtful tagging strategy tailored to each platform
• Handle all video editing for social content, optimizing format and pacing for each channel
• Serve as the primary point of contact for Your City Could Be Better listeners through our dedicated email account and social channels
• Engage and activate our audience across platforms, fostering a community of people who care deeply about their cities

Podcast Producer

Account Executive

• Persuasively articulate City Cast’s media offerings and competitive advantages to clients and prospects across the Austin area via in-person and Zoom sales calls.
• Establish and cultivate a network of C-Suite, senior-level media and client relationships in the market.
• Craft digital and audio programs that suit the marketing needs of the client.
• Maintain effective revenue-generating relationships with clients and media agencies and will provide the highest level of sales and marketing consulting services.
• Meet monthly revenue goals as outlined in the sales plan.
• Maintain the CRM database.
• Collaborate with City Cast colleagues in other departments and cities.

Senior Account Executive

Manager

• Collaborate with City Cast’s central marketing team to develop and execute a localized marketing plan and budget that includes partnerships, sponsorships, PR, social and other tactics
• Conceive of creative out-of-the-box marketing ideas, test them and capture their impact
• Helps ideate on swag or merch when needed for membership or marketing campaigns
• Serve as the local keeper of the marketing calendar, ensuring the team is ready to execute across all platforms at key campaign moments
• Work with Executive Producer to identify regular opportunities to weave members into content across platforms
• Work with HQ membership team to develop special local member incentives such as locally designed artists prints
• Develop creative ideas for attracting, engaging, and retaining members
• Work with Executive Producer to develop the social media strategy and content plan across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Reddit
• Handle all marketing and engagement aspects of the local social media strategy
• Coordinate with the central marketing team to execute giveaways and influencer campaigns
• Attend IRL events on City Cast’s behalf.
• Work in collaboration with the local Sales Executive to identify potential partnerships that blend sales and trade for mutual benefit
• Collect and create local content for marketing team to use in digital ads promoting City Cast Salt Lake
• Manage local PR outreach, building relationships with other local media outlets
• Plan and execute at least four member events per year with support from HQ membership team
• Manage local membership campaign execution
• Drive social community engagement daily across all platforms,
• Monitor all local audience-facing platforms and touchpoints to ensure consistency with City Cast’s brand, voice, and overarching marketing strategy
• Track, analyze, and share out social performance and growth metrics

Audience Development Manager

• Collaborate with City Cast’s central marketing team to develop and execute a localized marketing plan and budget that includes partnerships, sponsorships, PR, social and other tactics that have proven successful in other markets
• Conceive of creative out-of-the-box marketing ideas, test them and capture their impact
• Helps ideate on swag or merch when needed for membership or marketing campaigns
• Serve as the local keeper of the marketing calendar, ensuring the team is ready to execute across all platforms at key campaign moments
• Work with Executive Producer to identify regular opportunities to weave members into content across platforms
• Work with HQ membership team to develop special local member incentives such as locally designed artists prints
• Develop creative ideas for attracting, engaging, and retaining members
• Work with Executive Producer to develop the social media strategy and content plan across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Reddit
• Handle all marketing and engagement aspects of the local social media strategy
• Coordinate with the central marketing team to execute giveaways and influencer campaigns
• Attend IRL events on City Cast’s behalf. When we're a host or sponsor, ensuring that our brand is visible and consistent with our style guide, and that our presence is highly engaging to potential audience
• Work in collaboration with the local Sales Executive to identify potential partnerships that blend sales and trade for mutual benefit
• Adapt national creative campaigns for local audiences across platforms
• Collect and create local content for marketing team to use in digital ads promoting City Cast Madison
• Manage local PR outreach, building relationships with other local media outlets
• Plan and execute at least four member events per year with support from HQ membership team
• Manage local membership campaign execution, ensuring strong and compelling messaging across podcast, newsletter, and social
• Serve as the primary point of contact with the City Cast Madison membership base, engaging and activating members at member events and in a closed chat group.
• Drive social community engagement daily across all platforms, including monitoring and responding to comments and DMs on IG, TT, Spotify, YouTube, Reddit and other key audience touchpoints
• Monitor all local audience-facing platforms and touchpoints to ensure consistency with City Cast’s brand, voice, and overarching marketing strategy
• Track, analyze, and share out social performance and growth metrics

• plan and execute a localized marketing plan and budget
• conceive of creative marketing ideas
• serve as the local keeper of the marketing calendar
• work with Executive Producer to weave members into content
• develop special local member incentives
• manage local PR outreach
• drive social community engagement daily
• monitor local audience-facing platforms

Designer

• Design, adapt, update, and modify brand assets across social, video, web, email, events, swag and marketing campaigns
• Adapt creative concepts across formats and cities with consistency and polish
• Work closely with our Senior Graphic Designer to adapt the existing visual brand and style
• Occasionally support basic social and video ad creative, including layouts optimized for motion and performance
• Create and effectively manage a workflow for handling design requests across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Build and maintain reusable templates and toolkits
• Organize and maintain City Cast’s design system, including asset management, documentation, and access
• Apply and uphold City Cast’s visual brand consistently across all platforms and markets
• Serve as a trusted partner to Editorial, Marketing, Revenue, and city teams

Production Designer

Chief Marketing Officer

• Design and implement an onboarding program and ongoing coaching cadence for city-level Audience Development Managers that sets them up for success
• Create a library of actionable tools, templates, and training materials supporting core tactics such as localized PR, partnerships, sponsorships, event activations, local advertising, grassroots marketing, etc
• Own the national marketing strategy across the network and translate it into frameworks cities can apply locally to create effective local marketing plans, goals, and budgets
• Serve as strategic advisor and trusted coach to city teams, helping them navigate challenges and maximize opportunities
• Foster a culture of experimentation, shared learning, and continuous improvement across the network, while creating mechanisms for cross-pollination of ideas—identifying what's working, making it replicable, and spreading it across markets
• Own national marketing programs, identifying key network-wide campaign moments and developing beneficial partnerships that could expand our reach and add value to our brand
• Work in partnership with Chief Creative Officer on strategic planning, creative initiatives, brand development and aligning marketing results to overall network goals
• Develop strategic and innovative brand initiatives to grow and retain members, alongside our membership team
• Build out a thoughtful annual marketing plan that leverages what we’ve learned to date, building out key “tentpole” moments across the year and driving local and national efforts around them
• Oversee paid digital marketing efforts determining the right combination of full-time and outside resources needed to effectively reach our goals
• Oversee annual marketing budget, tracking spend and reallocating funds strategically as needed
• Establish a system for reporting on marketing performance and surfacing insights to city teams and leadership
• Lead a small marketing team with vision, ensuring each team member is focused effectively and developing professionally
• Clarify roles and goals of HQ team and localized marketing contributors to ensure operational efficiency and brand cohesion
• Deepen the entire organization’s understanding and integration of marketing across all teams, in order to tap into the bubbling creativity of the full staff
• Keep up with trends in podcast and newsletter marketing, surfacing and integrating new ideas, industry best practices, and technological disruptions on a regular basis
• Maintain a culture of collaboration, direct communication, and honest feedback, in line with City Cast’s values

Director of Marketing – Audience Development

• Be the cultural pulse of the brand on social media, knowing what matters to the local community, who is influencing local culture, and what content matters most to our audience. Use this knowledge to inform local podcast and newsletter topics and also to inform HQ marketing approaches
• Work with Executive Producer, Creative Producers and Host to develop content and engagement approaches across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit
• Engage with our audience daily across all platforms, including monitoring and responding to comments and DMs on IG, TT, Spotify, YouTube, Reddit and other key audience touchpoints
• Identify and share back analytics, trends, wins, and learnings from social performance
• Monitor all local audience-facing platforms and touchpoints to ensure consistency with City Cast’s brand, voice, and overarching marketing strategy
• Develop approach to localized marketing plan and budget spend in conjunction with national marketing team
• Collaborate with the marketing by executing on partnerships, sponsorships, events and collaboration opportunities with local organizations and like-minded brands.
• Help execute PR opportunities at the local level.
• Collect and create local content for the marketing team to use in ads promoting City Cast Pittsburgh.
• Collaborate with the national membership team to optimize the local member experience
• Share back local insights, cultural dynamics, city trends, and innovative ideas with City Cast marketing and membership teams to inform our work nationally

• Write a weekly City Cast Portland newsletter with a clear point of view and a strong, engaging voice.
• Research and report on your beat, developing sources and staying ahead of trends.
• Write thoughtful, upbeat copy featuring good news, local tips, or special recommendations that leave readers feeling informed and inspired.
• Collaborate closely with the City Cast Portland team and work with the Executive Producer through the editing process to sharpen structure, clarity, and impact.
• Take photos and source photos to craft a more visually interesting newsletter.
• Meet consistent deadlines and maintain high editorial standards.
• Bonus: Discuss your reporting and recommendations on the City Cast Portland podcast when appropriate.

Writer, Portland-Focused Newsletter

• Write a weekly City Cast Denver newsletter focused on small businesses and local shopping, with a clear point of view and a strong, engaging voice.
• Create a timely shopping guide in each issue, curating smart, specific recommendations tied to the moment (for example: top spots for Broncos gear, Stock Show ’fits, or seasonal gift guides).
• Develop a complementary second segment each week, either profiling a specific local business or breaking down a trend affecting Denver’s small business ecosystem.
• Pitch a cohesive newsletter plan each week, ensuring that the shopping guide and second segment are connected thematically without feeling repetitive.
• Proactively identify, reach out to, and interview small business owners, operators, and experts for the profile and reporting portions of the newsletter.
• Write a thoughtful, upbeat outro featuring good news, local tips, or special recommendations that leave readers feeling informed and inspired to shop local.
• Collaborate closely with the City Cast Denver team and work with the Executive Producer through the editing process to sharpen structure, clarity, and impact.
• Bonus: Discuss your reporting and recommendations on the City Cast Denver podcast when appropriate.

Writer – Small Business Newsletter

Journalist

• Pitch original, timely story ideas that reflect what DC residents are talking about—and what they will be talking about next.
• Produce original enterprise and accountability journalism that holds power to account and helps residents understand what’s really happening in DC.
• Develop and own a signature coverage area — breaking news, cultivating sources, and becoming the go-to voice for that slice of DC life.
• Carry weight as a public-facing personality, representing City Cast DC with confidence, credibility, and warmth.
• Write a distinctive, voice-driven newsletter that delivers clarity, context, and urgency to readers.
• Contribute regularly on the City Cast DC podcast, preparing as needed, speaking clearly and engagingly about your reporting while bringing your local knowledge and personality to the conversation
• Create regular social media posts and videos that extend the reach of your reporting and connect with the City Cast DC audience.
• Contribute out of the box ideas about how to cover DC with vigor, creativity, and singular focus
• Occasionally record ads for sponsors across all platforms
• Contribute to regular efforts to grow support for the City Cast DC Neighbors membership program, including pitching during campaigns

Reporter

• Owning revenue generation and account strategy across named Retail, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Transportation, and Industrial accounts.
• Positioning CAST’s software intelligence platform to help customers improve development efficiency, remediate technical debt, gain command of their software estates, and accelerate modernization initiatives.
• Engaging directly with C-suite, C-1, and VP-level leaders including CIOs, CTOs, Chief Digital Officers, Heads of Engineering, Architecture leaders, and Line-of-Business executives.
• Driving executive-level conversations around digital transformation, platform modernization, operational resilience, and readiness for AI and Agentic AI.
• Building and executing strategic account plans that create recurring software and services revenue.
• Partnering closely with Tier 1 management consultancies, Big 4 firms, GSIs, cloud providers, and specialized advisory partners to influence large transformation programs.
• Developing new partner relationships while expanding existing ones to generate joint pipeline and closed business.
• Acting as a senior ambassador for CAST across enterprise verticals—establishing credibility, opening new markets, and positioning CAST as a strategic platform partner.
• Driving deals from concept to close while maintaining strong customer satisfaction and long-term value creation.

Writer – Twin Cities-Focused Newsletter

Podcast Producer

Senior Account Executive

Audience Development Manager

Audience Development Manager

Audience Development Manager

Production Designer

Director of Marketing – Audience Development

Audience Development Manager

Writer, Portland-Focused Newsletter

Writer – Small Business Newsletter

Reporter

SVP / VP, Strategic Enterprise Accounts – North America