Primary Responsibilities
- Lead the creative and strategic vision for the company’s episodic content slate, spanning scripted series, unscripted formats, limited series, and multi-season franchises.
- Own long-range slate planning and portfolio balance across original concepts, adaptations, and acquired formats aligned with brand, mission, and growth objectives.
- Provide senior creative leadership across all development activity, overseeing scripts, pitches, series bibles, format design, showrunner collaboration, and series packaging.
- Partner with Production to move projects from development through greenlight and into pre-production, ensuring creative, financial, and operational readiness.
- Drive audience growth, subscriber engagement, and retention by aligning episodic programming with measurable performance and platform objectives.
- Build and maintain high-level relationships with writers, showrunners, producers, talent, and studios, representing the company across the industry.
Experience & Requirements
- Senior leadership experience in scripted and/or unscripted series development, production, or studio environments
- Proven ability to identify, shape, and advance episodic projects from concept through greenlight
- Exceptional storytelling judgment, with deep expertise in script evaluation, series structure, character development, season arcs, and format design
- Strong understanding of industry trends, audience behavior, and market dynamics across episodic content
- High level of financial literacy, including the ability to evaluate budgets, resource requirements, and slate economics
- Proven cross-functional leader with strong communication and relationship management skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, mission-driven, entrepreneurial environment aligned with conservative media values
- Collaborative, strategic executive with excellent interpersonal skills
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What We Do
Not every company kicks off in a converted garage and expands into one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment - but then again, no other company is the Daily Wire. Built from the ground up by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing, the Daily Wire started as a side gig and morphed into a political news and commentary powerhouse in just 7 short years. Now, the Daily Wire is producing entertainment content, investigative journalism, multiple chart-topping podcasts, and - you guessed it - some fire memes. And we’re not stopping there. Our team is constantly moving, innovating and growing. We adapt to any and all obstacles with a team of creative geniuses that are all aligned in creating unparalleled content that provides a voice for facts and for freedom. We don't just echo whatever’s trending - we set trends. When you join the Daily Wire team, your finger isn’t just on the pulse. From the studios of CANDACE and The Ben Shapiro Show to the newsroom of some of America’s most influential writers, you are the pulse. And if that interests you, we’re all ears.
