Executive Podcast Producer - Global Studios
At Global, we think big, work hard, and never stand still. We’re the proud home of the best media and entertainment brands on the planet, driven by our talented and passionate people. Our mission? To make everyone’s day brighter - our Globallers, our audiences, our partners, and our communities. Whether we’re in the studio, building world-class technology, or securing record Outdoor advertising partnerships, we make sure we’re doing it as a team.
Your Role: Executive Podcast Producer - Global Studios
Reporting to the Head of Production, you will be the creative and editorial lead for a portfolio of Global Studios shows. You’ll own their overall vision and continued development, setting the creative direction while leading and empowering the production team.
As the senior editorial voice on your titles, you’ll champion creative ambition, editorial quality and audience growth. You’ll build trusted relationships with talent and agents, evolve formats and create opportunities to grow shows across audio, video, social, live and other platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Creative and editorial leadership: Set and maintain the creative and editorial direction of assigned titles, overseeing ideas and planning through production, publication and review.
- Show development and growth: Use audience insight and creative thinking to evolve formats, create bigger moments and identify opportunities to deepen audience engagement across platforms.
- Team leadership: Lead, support and empower the production team, creating clear structures, production workflows and an ambitious pipeline of ideas.
- Talent relationships: Build trusted, constructive relationships with talent and agents, helping talent deliver their best work while protecting the creative vision of each show.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with colleagues across Video, Social, Marketing, Commercial and Production to develop shows into bigger brands.
- New content: Partner with the development hub to pilot and launch new shows, bringing strong editorial judgement and operational discipline to delivery.
What You’ll Love About This Role
- Think Big: Shape the creative direction of major Global Studios titles and find new ways to grow them beyond the core show.
- Own It: Take responsibility for high editorial standards, audience growth and the delivery of ambitious creative plans.
- Keep it Simple: Turn creative ambition, performance insight and production priorities into clear plans that teams can deliver.
- Better Together: Work closely with talented producers, presenters and colleagues across Global to create standout content.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
- Used creative and editorial insight to grow your shows.
- Established yourself as a trusted editorial lead for the production team and talent.
- Introduced regular performance reviews and used audience insight to improve the shows.
- Developed a clear editorial calendar, effective production workflows and a strong pipeline of ideas.
- Built productive relationships with Video, Social, Marketing, Commercial and Production colleagues.
- Created a clear management structure and maintained consistently high creative and editorial standards.
- Identified practical and creative opportunities to grow the titles and deepen audience engagement.
What You’ll Need
- Editorial leadership: Strong creative judgement and experience leading high-quality editorial content in a fast-moving environment.
- People leadership: Ability to lead, support and empower a production team, creating clarity, trust and accountability.
- Audience insight: Confidence using performance information and audience understanding to inform creative decisions.
- Relationship building: Experience developing trusted, professional relationships with on-air talent, agents and senior stakeholders.
- Creative development: A track record of evolving formats and generating ideas that build audience engagement across platforms.
- Organisation and delivery: The ability to balance creative ambition with effective planning, prioritisation and production discipline.
Skills Required
- Strong creative judgment and experience leading high-quality editorial content in a fast-moving environment
- Ability to lead, support, and empower a production team while creating clarity, trust, and accountability
- Confidence using performance information and audience understanding to inform creative decisions
- Experience developing trusted professional relationships with on-air talent, agents, and senior stakeholders
- Track record of evolving formats and generating ideas that build audience engagement across platforms
- Ability to balance creative ambition with effective planning, prioritization, and production discipline
Global Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Global and has not been reviewed or approved by Global.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days’ annual leave plus an extra work‑anniversary day, with the option to buy up to five additional days, points to broad time‑off flexibility. Enhanced family and accessibility leave further expand coverage.
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Healthcare Strength — Access to a 24/7 virtual GP, health and dental discount programs, long‑term sickness insurance, and life assurance at 4x salary indicate robust health protection. Free Headspace membership and nutrition coaching complement the core offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Discounted gym memberships, cashback benefits, discounted travel insurance, and access to company‑sponsored music events contribute lifestyle value. Feedback suggests these extras add to a fun, wellbeing‑oriented culture.
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What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold. Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers. Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities. On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
