Jobs at The Guardian

Lead a small team producing a daily video podcast for audio, video, and social channels. Responsibilities include editorial decision-making, story commissioning, guest booking, scripting, recording, editing, studio and remote production, YouTube optimization, social strategy, team scheduling, audience development, and performance analysis. The role also ensures compliance with media law, maintains editorial standards, develops on-air talent, and collaborates with podcast and design teams.

Leads a team producing and commissioning social-first news, features, and opinion content for Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms. Oversees story selection, editing, scripting, design, video production, legal compliance, budgets, workflow, staff development, and cross-team collaboration. The role requires strong newsroom experience, social storytelling expertise, video editing, platform analytics, and knowledge of media law and OSINT.

Lead the Guardian’s social content across Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms. Create, commission, edit, and verify written, visual, and video content; pitch story ideas; make independent editorial decisions; uphold accuracy, copyright, and legal standards; collaborate with newsroom stakeholders and partners; use analytics to improve social video strategy; and establish best practices for visual style and tone.

Create, script, edit, and publish engaging social content across TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms. Repurpose Guardian journalism into video, photography, text, and graphics; pitch ideas; collaborate on multimedia projects; verify facts; follow editorial and design standards; monitor performance; and optimize content for audience engagement.

Support and develop hybrid cloud infrastructure, with a focus on AWS migration from on-premise environments. Manage Windows Server, Active Directory, Entra ID, VMware, networking, storage, and cloud services. Implement infrastructure security, resilience, monitoring, automation, and Infrastructure as Code. Collaborate with technology stakeholders, communicate technical issues and designs, and participate in a one-week-in-three out-of-hours support rota.

Develops data-driven journalism across breaking news, investigations, explainers, visual features, social posts, video, and newsletters. Responsibilities include sourcing, cleaning, and analyzing datasets; generating story ideas and rigorous insights; simplifying complex information; collaborating with reporters, editors, and visual journalists; and selecting effective formats for communicating findings. The role requires statistical literacy, quantitative research skills, current affairs knowledge, and awareness of AI’s opportunities and limitations.

Lead the production of innovative visual journalism across graphical, interactive, multimedia, and spatial formats. Edit and structure visual stories, analyze datasets and OSINT materials, collaborate with journalists, developers, designers, and data specialists, and manage cross-functional projects. Develop engaging copy, storyboards, visualizations, and new digital storytelling formats while exploring emerging technologies and ensuring projects are accurate, timely, accessible, and effective across platforms.

Develop and operate the Guardian’s multimedia production platform for audio and video teams. Responsibilities include building event-driven AWS services and integrations, maintaining cloud infrastructure and automation, supporting media-management systems, upgrading architecture, troubleshooting performance and reliability issues, and collaborating with editorial stakeholders, infrastructure teams, vendors, and engineers. The role also involves code review, knowledge sharing, documentation, security practices, and roadmap contributions.

Manage end-to-end publishing, scheduling, optimisation and channel housekeeping for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. Coordinate with editorial, video, audience and commercial teams to maximise reach and engagement, handle community moderation and crisis escalation, create UTM links and performance reports, and support new channel launches.

Coordinates daily Washington, DC office operations, including facilities liaison, supplies, deliveries, access protocols, meeting and interview logistics, visitor reception, onboarding, calendars, expenses, subscriptions, travel arrangements, event support, and team resource management. Provides basic technology troubleshooting and administrative support while maintaining an organized, welcoming workplace. The role is part-time, hybrid, and requires occasional early, late, and weekend work.

Drive programmatic advertising revenue growth for The Guardian US by developing agency, brand, trading desk, DSP, and technology partnerships. Build deal pipelines across preferred deals, private marketplaces, and direct partnerships; monitor campaign performance; identify renewal and upsell opportunities; and provide forecasting and reporting. Collaborate with sales, ad operations, yield, product, and marketing teams on inventory strategy and go-to-market planning while serving as an internal programmatic thought leader.

Leads the design, deployment, maintenance, and support of multimedia AV infrastructure across Guardian US offices. Responsibilities include managing conference rooms, digital signage, podcast and broadcast studio systems, field production equipment, endpoint support, live event audio/video mixing and streaming, hardware inventories, preventative maintenance, vendor coordination, and technology roadmaps. The role also establishes operational standards, system health metrics, and scalable processes while troubleshooting high-pressure newsroom and live-event issues.

Lead global editorial strategy and execution for technology coverage across US, UK and Australia. Coordinate investigations, breaking news and long-term projects, foster cross-region collaboration, drive audience growth across formats (video, newsletters, podcasts), mentor reporters, and build systems for seamless handovers and impactful global reporting on tech, policy, AI, platforms, cybersecurity and related beats.

Report original, enterprise-level political stories from Washington DC: break news and scoops, investigate government functioning and malfeasance, build national and global sources, collaborate with colleagues worldwide, and produce regular news features and occasional long-form pieces for a global audience.

The White House Enterprise Reporter will cover the inner workings and agenda of the Trump administration, producing various news stories and analysis. They should have a strong network in Washington and experience in political reporting for a national audience.

Lead the US editorial design practice to create immersive, accessible digital storytelling across web and app. Design visual story packages, interactives, templates and prototypes; collaborate with editors, photo editors, developers and contributors; improve reusable design systems and workflows; and balance fast-turn news treatments with ambitious feature projects to strengthen journalism across platforms.

Build and maintain BI dashboards and SQL-driven reports to analyze programmatic revenue and yield. Identify optimization opportunities across SSPs/DSPs/header bidding, support identity/addressability testing, assist forecasting and finance close processes, and translate findings for cross-functional stakeholders to drive programmatic monetization.