Teams at NPR

Leads NPR’s corporate and executive communications strategy, including institutional messaging, executive speeches, media relations, stakeholder engagement, and communications for major organizational initiatives. Oversees announcement planning, proactive media outreach, sensitive issue response, and executive appearance preparation. Manages and coaches communications staff, coordinates cross-functional partners, maintains the corporate communications calendar, and ensures consistent messaging that strengthens NPR’s reputation and communicates its mission and impact.

Lead NPR’s motion and video creative direction, evolving its visual brand across owned digital platforms, social video, and multimedia experiences. Build scalable design systems, video standards, templates, and production workflows; manage a two-person technical creative team; oversee equipment, agencies, freelancers, budgets, and quality. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Editorial, and Audience Insights to create accessible, distinctive, platform-native content and optimize it using audience data.

Produces and experiments with short-form social video for Planet Money and The Indicator, adapting audio journalism for visual platforms. Collaborates with editors, producers, hosts, and NPR social teams; shoots, edits, publishes, and evaluates video using audience data. Trains audio producers in video tools, storytelling, and analytics, while developing sustainable workflows, social strategy, captions, and supporting copy. The role requires editorial judgment, ethical compliance, cross-platform expertise, project management, and collaboration in a hybrid New York City setting.