Supervising Creative Producer
T S W Wordsmith LLC
Creative Producer
PragerU
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $100,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Oversee creative direction and logistical execution of recurring series featuring PragerU personalities
- Produce and publish high-quality episodes multiple times per week for various talent
- Research daily topics and develop story ideas with the team
- Oversee filming, post-production, and publishing logistics
- Communicate team updates on behalf of the Head of Creative and flag issues with bandwidth, performance, or cross-departmental conflicts
- Review and approve live show and daily episode content
- Supervise editing of shorts and provide time stamps for repurposed content
- Manage social media for the series’ YouTube channel and related promotional channels
- Serve as liaison for talent on internal and external requests (campaign promotions, press, shoots, donor requests, etc.)
- Assist the Marketing comedy sketch team and support large-scale campaign strategies (e.g., NewsGuard, Earth Day, short documentaries) as they come up
Requirements
- 5–7 years of production experience, including 5+ years managing live webcast production (pre-, day-of, and post-production)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, start-up style environment and keep productions streamlined
- Strong organizational skills; able to manage multiple projects and coordinate across teams
- Proven problem-solving ability with creative, cost-effective solutions
- Effective leader and collaborator with other departments
- Team player: proactive, reliable, calm under pressure, and no-ego
- Strong creative instincts, editorial judgment, and critical thinking
- Ability to identify and break news stories through independent research
- Eagerness to improve the series with new segments, guests, and ideas
- Knowledge of video podcast production best practices
- General familiarity with camera, lighting, audio, and editing
- News junkie in the conservative media space
- Strong knowledge and interest in U.S. history and “culture war” issues
- An “idea machine” with the ability to pitch content ideas, show ideas, and episode topics
- Ability to argue both sides of an issue and clearly articulate major points
