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About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead day-to-day production operations for a weekly scripted true crime podcast, as well development and ideation for ongoing and limited-run documentary series.
- Research cases, source materials, court records, timelines, archival content, and supporting documentation.
- Prepare hosts and producers with clear and comprehensive research packets, interview materials, timelines, and briefing documents.
- Develop story pitches, episode concepts, narrative structures, and editorial angles.
- Conduct interviews with sources, experts, contributors, and relevant stakeholders.
- Write interview questions, scripts (full narration and conversational), outlines, and other editorial materials.
- Collaborate with hosts, senior leadership, editors, and associate producers to maintain a consistent editorial voice and storytelling approach.
- Manage production calendars, workflows, schedules, deadlines, and deliverables across multiple projects simultaneously.
- Oversee the workstream of associate producers, editors, and collaborate with social editorial teams
- Manage all guest outreach and booking, coordinate recording sessions, and provide production support during remote or in-person recordings.
- Review edits and provide creative feedback on story structure, pacing, clarity, accuracy, and narrative flow.
- Identify opportunities to develop stories into larger investigations, limited-run documentary series, or multi-platform projects.
- Work closely with video, social, and marketing teams to develop companion content for YouTube and social platforms.
- Track audience feedback, consumption trends, and performance metrics to inform future editorial decisions.
- Uphold journalistic standards by conducting fact checking and collaborating with legal to ensure accuracy.
- Support the development of new scripted audio concepts, franchises, and documentary initiatives across the portfolio.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
What you’ll need- 4+ years of experience producing podcasts, non-fiction documentaries, investigative journalism, public radio, narrative media, or related content.
- Demonstrated experience producing highly researched, story-driven content from development through publication.
- Strong editorial judgment and a proven ability to identify compelling stories, characters, and narrative arcs from a bank of materials.
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills with the ability to work independently without direct oversight, and manage multiple deadlines simultaneously.
- Experience researching complex topics and synthesizing large amounts of information into clear, compelling editorial materials.
- Strong writing skills with experience creating scripts, outlines, interview guides, research briefs, and production documents.
- Experience preparing and conducting interviews, working directly with sources, contributors, and on-air talent.
- Strong talent coaching acumen, ability to work directly with on-air talenthosts on all aspects of interviewing, writing, and narration, providing constructive feedback.
- Understanding of narrative storytelling techniques including pacing, scene-building, tension, character development, and episodic structure.
- Comfortable handling remote recording workflows, including audio + video hardware and software, file organization, plus basic troubleshooting.
- Understanding of audio + video production and workflow softwares (Adobe Creative Suite, Descript, Streamyard); plus podcast + video platforms (Megaphone, YouTube).
- Familiarity with fact-checking processes and maintaining editorial accuracy.
- Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively across editorial, production, legal, marketing, and leadership teams.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail and editorial quality.
- Ability to work nights, weekends, or holidays as projects call for.
Benefits
Comp & perks- participation in a retirement plan
- life and disability insurance
- health, dental and vision plans
- flexible spending accounts
- 15 paid vacation days
- 2 paid personal days
- 9 paid holidays
- 40 hours of paid sick leave
- parental leave
- employee stock purchase plan
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Hard Skills & Tools
podcast productionnon-fiction documentary productioninvestigative journalismnarrative mediastory developmentscript writinginterview preparationfact-checkingnarrative storytelling techniquesproject management
Soft Skills
organizational skillsproject management skillseditorial judgmenttalent coachingcollaborative mindsetattention to detailability to work independentlyability to manage multiple deadlinesstrong writing skillsability to thrive in fast-paced environments