Job Title: Associate Producer, Video Podcasts
Location: New York, NY (4-5 days in office)
About The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast delivers smart, fearless journalism to millions of readers and listeners each month. We’re expanding our hit video podcast slate and looking for a creative, driven Associate Producer.
About the Role
The Associate Producer will play a key role in developing, launching, and producing new podcasts. This position is ideal for someone with creative vision, editorial skills, and strong video and audio production experience. You’ll report to a Senior Producer but will have ownership over show launches currently in development—from concept to execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Ideate, develop, and launch new podcast concepts in collaboration with editorial, audio, and business teams.
- Assist with planning and booking guests to ensure interviews and conversations are dynamic and engaging.
- Manage production timelines, guest bookings, scripts, and post-production workflows.
- Support on-air talent and build an understanding of the competitive landscape.
- Produce and edit episodes to a polished final product. Handle asset publication and optimizations across necessary platforms.
- Collaborate with the Senior Producer, talent and Executive Editor to refine show formats, creative direction, and promotional strategy.
- Integrate video and social extensions of podcasts across platforms, especially YouTube.
Qualifications
- 2–3 years of experience in podcast production, ideally in pop culture or lifestyle formats.
- Proven experience working closely with talent, editing podcasts and long-form video assets, and ability to manage the full production process independently.
- Strong creative instincts and a track record of pitching or launching successful shows.
- Comfortable presenting ideas and collaborating with editorial and business teams.
- Familiarity with YouTube asset publishing requirements and podcast video workflows.
- Proficient with audio and video production and editing tools including Adobe Suite’s Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Media Encoder, Audition, as well as ancillary tools Opus, Riverside, Autopod, CapCut, and Monday.com (or similar).
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a respected and influential news organization.
- Engage with a dedicated audience passionate about political news.
- Enjoy a collaborative and fast-paced work environment.
- Opportunities for career growth and development.
The pay range for this full-time position is $70,000-80,000, which represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary. The Daily Beast is a globally recognized publication headquartered in New York City. This is an in-office position based in our New York headquarters.
Additional Information
Don’t meet every single requirement listed here? If you’re interested in joining the Beast but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with this job description, we encourage you to give it a shot all the same. It might turn out that you’re just the right candidate for this or other roles. See more about our commitment to diversity at https://www.thedailybeast.com/company/diversity
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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What We Do
Independent. Irreverent. Intelligent. The Daily Beast delivers award-winning original reporting and sharp opinion in the arena of politics, pop-culture and power. Always skeptical but never cynical, The Daily Beast reaches more than 1 million readers a day. Tracy Connor is Editor in Chief and Heather Dietrick is CEO. The Daily Beast is based in New York and is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI).
