Jobs at POLITICO

Leads North American HR as a strategic advisor to the COO and senior leaders. Uses workforce data, attrition insights, and people analytics to guide retention, talent, performance, organizational effectiveness, and workforce planning strategies. Coaches executives, manages employee relations and change initiatives, leads talent and leadership development, and oversees the HRBP team. Partners globally across HR, legal, finance, and talent functions to ensure compliant, effective people practices.

Leads and develops the US Customer Engagement Specialist team, setting strategy, goals, processes, and performance expectations to improve product adoption, engagement, support, customer health, and retention. Builds scalable proactive and reactive customer success practices, coaches team members, uses customer data to identify risks and opportunities, and partners with Account Management, Product, Marketing, Technology, and Data teams to improve customer outcomes.

Manage POLITICO’s social accounts and execute strategies across Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms. Support breaking-news and policy coverage, collaborate with newsroom, product, technology, data, and audience teams, and identify workflow improvements. Analyze audience data, test approaches, recommend improvements, write compelling headlines and copy, support social-first video projects, and maintain journalistic standards while growing off-platform audiences.

Own AgencyIQ’s product roadmap, translating customer research, usage data, and market insights into B2B software and data product features. Lead AI-assisted prototyping workflows, regulatory data collection initiatives, technical requirements, evaluations, and delivery with engineering and research teams. Improve subscriber acquisition, engagement, expansion, and retention while enabling product managers to use approved AI coding tools and reliable development processes.

Supports digital and print advertising campaign activation, fulfillment, QA, troubleshooting, launch, monitoring, optimization, and performance analysis. Maintains campaign pacing, runsheets, inventory forecasts, benchmarks, and insights using data and visualization tools. Collaborates with Media Business and Design teams, and assists with ad technology platform evaluation, implementation, and administration.

Leads POLITICO’s global accounting function across US and European entities. Responsibilities include IFRS consolidation, accounting policy, statutory reporting, internal controls, audits, tax accounting, acquisitions, purchase accounting, carve-outs, automation, and global team development. The role partners with senior finance, tax, legal, and external advisers while overseeing complex multi-entity financial operations and supporting scalable finance infrastructure.

Build and deploy production machine learning systems for POLITICO’s newsroom and products. Develop classification, prediction, ranking, NLP, and model adaptation solutions; create data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and feature engineering systems; and collaborate with engineers, journalists, editors, and product teams to integrate reliable, cost-effective AI capabilities into production.

Serve as a strategic HR advisor and hands-on operator for a fast-paced newsroom. Responsibilities include organizational design, workforce planning, performance management, employee relations, talent development, succession planning, compensation coordination, onboarding, employee changes, people analytics, and HR process improvement. The role partners closely with newsroom leaders, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, HR Operations, Finance, and Legal to address workforce needs and risks.

Leads POLITICO’s Australian commercial business, including market entry, revenue strategy, enterprise sales, budgeting, forecasting, partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and audience growth. The role personally drives POLITICO Pro subscriptions, renewals, and account expansion across government, corporate, consultancy, legal, and public affairs organizations. Based in Sydney, the Country Manager represents POLITICO nationally, develops senior relationships, travels regularly to Canberra, and helps build the local team and long-term market presence.

Edit and review sensitive journalism before and after publication, resolve ethical and editorial issues, develop newsroom ethics policies and stylebook guidance, and help design journalist training programs. The role collaborates across a global newsroom to uphold fair-minded, nonpartisan journalism and maintain high standards of accuracy, integrity, and professional conduct.

Report on California state government, politics, policy debates, legislative negotiations, campaigns, and ballot initiatives. Break consequential stories, develop sources among lawmakers and Capitol stakeholders, identify emerging conflicts, and explain complex policy issues clearly. The reporter will generate enterprise stories and scoops, work under deadline pressure, coordinate with administration and policy reporters, and connect California developments to national political themes.

Lead POLITICO’s coverage of technology policy and politics in Washington. Set the editorial agenda, edit reporters, shape breaking news and enterprise stories, develop sources, explain complex policy issues, and connect developments across global technology centers. The editor will cover Congress, federal agencies, regulation, corporate influence, and technology industry policy while mentoring reporters and contributing to coverage across POLITICO’s website, newsletters, and Pro platform.

Reports on California technology policy and politics, including cryptocurrency regulation, social media, and personal data use. Writes breaking news, policy updates, newsletter content, and enterprise stories for state, national, and global audiences. Builds source networks among government officials, industry leaders, and advocates; collaborates with reporters across international bureaus; and delivers accurate, nonpartisan, agenda-setting journalism under tight deadlines.

POLITICO seeks an enterprising Tech Correspondent to report on technology policy, politics, regulation, and corporate influence across Washington and Silicon Valley. The role covers the administration, Congress, federal agencies, campaigns, and global technology policy, producing breaking news, enterprise reporting, newsletters, and digital stories. The reporter will build extensive source networks, explain complex issues clearly, collaborate across global teams, and deliver accurate, nonpartisan journalism on AI, antitrust, privacy, cryptocurrency, telecommunications, broadband, and emerging technologies.

Report on how technology companies, executives, investors, lobbyists, and political operatives shape policy and political strategy. The correspondent will break news, cultivate high-level sources, produce enterprise and investigative reporting, and explain complex technology, regulatory, and political developments. Coverage includes AI, antitrust, privacy, copyright, content moderation, cryptocurrency, semiconductors, export controls, and the technology workforce across Silicon Valley, Washington, Brussels, and other global centers.

Lead the editorial vision and daily production of California Decoded, editing coverage of technology, politics, policy, lobbying, elections and emerging technologies. Manage and mentor reporters, shape breaking news and enterprise journalism, coordinate with national and global teams, and identify stories with broader implications. The role requires strong editing, writing, news judgment, technology-policy expertise and a commitment to accurate, fair-minded journalism.

Lead POLITICO’s national political coverage of the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential campaign. Supervise and coach reporters, shape breaking news and enterprise stories, collaborate across newsroom teams, and use polling, campaign finance data, graphics, and interactive tools to create authoritative, engaging journalism. The role is based at POLITICO’s Arlington, Virginia headquarters.

Drives revenue and partnerships for POLITICO Live’s portfolio of summits, forums, receptions, dinners, roundtables, and custom experiences. Responsibilities include prospecting, developing sponsorship solutions, managing client relationships, leading presentations and negotiations, closing complex partnerships, responding to RFPs, forecasting revenue, and collaborating with editorial, marketing, account management, and events teams.

Develop editorial programming for POLITICO Live summits, policy briefings, and events. Research timely political and policy issues, identify newsmakers and experts, conduct interviews, create questions and conversation arcs, and write editorial and promotional content. Monitor breaking news, support moderators and speakers, collaborate with producers and bookers, and adapt programming through live event execution. Contribute to digital, video, and social storytelling that extends event reach.

Edit breaking news, newsletters, enterprise stories, live blogs, and long-form content for consumer and professional audiences. Fact-check and copy edit articles in the content management system, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and adherence to POLITICO and AP style. Optimize content for digital platforms and search, review multimedia and headlines, and collaborate with reporters and editorial teams. Provide flexible editing support during breaking news, major events, special projects, and staffing gaps.