Producer I

Summary

Join NPR's How I Built This podcast as a temporary Producer I! This role involves producing three weekly programs: a long-form podcast, an advice line podcast, and a radio show. Responsibilities include audio production, research, interviewing, and writing. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in long-form audio and a passion for business and entrepreneurship. This remote position reports to the Supervising Producer/Editor and is a union-represented role. The temporary position is for six months.

Requirements

• At least five years of audio editing and production experience, preferably in long-form narrative
• High proficiency in ProTools editing software
• Ability to shape, edit, and score audio with confidence and on deadline
• 4-5 years of experience researching and writing for audio: broadcast and/or podcast
• A passion for business and entrepreneurship
• Impeccable track record with fact-checking and experience with quality assurance on final scripts and audio
• Ability to learn production platforms quickly and handle multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines and changing conditions
• Ability to edit other people’s work and efficiently communicate what’s needed to improve it
• Ability to collaborate smoothly with others, demonstrating respect for diverse constituencies at NPR and beyond
• Highly supportive of cultivating and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace
• Ability to manage all of the above with minimal supervision

Responsibilities

• Edit, write, score, mix, and publish individual podcast episodes from raw interview to a fully-produced project
• Script and produce NPR’s HIBT/Planet Money radio show, refining and restructuring previously-published content
• Prepare and fact-check research material for the host, including comprehensive summaries of guest biographies
• Pre-interview and evaluate prospective callers for the HIBT Advice Line podcast
• Write and produce promotional copy for the podcast
• Generate and research pitches for future guests
• Occasionally perform backup editing, including overseeing fact-checking and final scripting of an episode

Benefits

• Access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents
• Paid time off
• Medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability insurance
• Voluntary retirement savings
• Remote work