Jobs at NPR

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.

Lead end-to-end mobile product design for NPR, driving strategy, personalization, and accessible design systems. Collaborate with product, engineering, research, and editorial teams to prototype, validate, and launch scalable, inclusive mobile experiences while mentoring designers and promoting evidence-driven practices.

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.

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 NPR's station-facing analytics service: produce insights, training, newsletters, and webinars; support stations on tracking implementation and dashboards; analyze network- and station-level audience data; document best practices and collaborate with cross-functional teams to inform product roadmaps.

Serve as the functional bridge between NPR business stakeholders and Salesforce technical teams: elicit and document requirements, author user stories and acceptance criteria, analyze impacts and dependencies, collaborate on solution design, lead UAT and training, coordinate project delivery, and promote governance and platform best practices to optimize NPR's Salesforce ecosystem.

Support product analytics for the NPR App, site, and video by designing measurement plans, implementing and QCing tags, querying BigQuery, building dashboards, diagnosing data issues, automating reports, and producing analyses and documentation for stakeholders.

Lead mobile analytics and experimentation for the NPR App: design and analyze experiments, extract insights from complex datasets, build reports and visualizations, write advanced SQL, partner with product and newsroom stakeholders, train colleagues, and deliver actionable recommendations to grow audience and revenue.

Lead and modernize NPR's benefits, compensation, and retirement programs. Develop total rewards strategy, manage HRIS (UKG) configuration and data integrity, own compensation planning and budgets, ensure compliance (ERISA, Form 5500, ACA), manage vendors, resolve legacy administration issues, and lead a benefits and compensation team while partnering across HR, Finance, Payroll, Legal, and auditors.

Lead and manage anchors, producers, and editors for NPR Newscast across broadcast and digital platforms. Oversee weekend operations, editorial planning, hiring/onboarding, talent development, and editorial standards. Collaborate on editorial and operational strategy, adapt workflows and technology, and represent Newscast externally. Occasional travel for reporting or team projects; may fill in for the Executive Producer as needed.