Jobs at NPR

The Director of Individual Giving manages a portfolio of 100–150 major donor prospects, develops cultivation and solicitation strategies, and secures six- and seven-figure gifts. Responsibilities include moves management, donor discovery, proposal and impact-report creation, database maintenance in Salesforce, stewardship, and collaboration with NPR leadership, member stations, planned giving, and development teams. The role targets $5M+ in annual revenue and supports an organization-wide culture of philanthropy.

Coordinates enterprise-wide transformation initiatives by managing project roadmaps, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, deliverables, dashboards, and status reporting. The role connects cross-functional NPR and NPM teams, facilitates governance meetings, supports leadership, mitigates bottlenecks, and ensures initiatives remain on schedule across technical, financial, and station-relations stakeholders.

Legal externs support NPR’s Office of the General Counsel by conducting legal research, preparing memoranda, contracts, and other documents, participating in client and regulatory meetings, observing proceedings, and attending legal training. The role spans commercial, nonprofit tax, governance, technology, intellectual property, regulatory, constitutional, employment, and labor matters. Applicants must be current law students and secure academic credit for fall or spring placements.

Legal externs assist senior counsel with copyright research, fair use determinations, audio and video content evaluations, permissions agreements, licensing assessments, and rights management. The role is a full-time, summer, for-credit or stipend-eligible opportunity for current second- or third-year law students with coursework and knowledge in copyright law and fair use.

Leads and develops a team of mobile software engineers building NPR applications. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, Agile delivery, technical planning, code and design reviews, workflow automation, production incident response, vendor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires prior hands-on mobile engineering experience, proficiency in native iOS or Android technologies, release infrastructure, Git, and Agile/Scrum practices.

Join NPR's cross-discipline product team to build and maintain cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Automate deployments with IaC, administer Linux systems, manage databases and CDNs, optimize performance and scalability, maintain documentation, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability.

The IT Network Manager oversees network infrastructure, manages a team of engineers, and ensures high availability and security for real-time media transport in a collaborative environment.

Lead a data engineering team building and operating NPR's data warehouse, pipelines, BI, and personalization systems. Responsibilities include people leadership, hiring, cross-functional collaboration, Agile delivery, technical design and code review, automation for developer experience, incident response, and vendor management.

Lead NPR’s digital insights function to define measurement frameworks for a flagship app and video strategy; build and mentor an insights team; ensure data integrity and tagging governance; design mixed-methods primary research; translate analytics into executive storytelling and cross-functional alignment to drive product and monetization decisions.

Lead technical AI work to fine-tune, evaluate, and scale LLMs and ML pipelines for semantic metadata, recommendation and personalization systems. Build production-grade ASR, vector search, and BigQuery-based analytics; ensure model accuracy, ethical guardrails, bias mitigation, and secure cloud deployments while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead and modernize NPR's total rewards strategy and operations, overseeing benefits, retirement, compensation, vendor management, audits, compliance (ERISA, ACA, Form 5500), and HRIS/UKG configuration. Drive compensation analytics, annual planning, budget ownership, legacy systems remediation, data controls, and cross-functional partnerships with Finance, Legal, Payroll, and HRIS. Manage and develop the Total Rewards team and deliver communications and training.

Lead design and implementation of real-time, event-driven data ecosystems powering personalization. Define self-service data infrastructure, governance, and architecture standards. Provide cross-team technical oversight, mentor engineers, ensure production reliability and cost optimization, participate in deployments and on-call, and collaborate on roadmaps and OKRs.