City Cast is seeking a creative, strategic, and experienced Content Director to oversee 4-6 of its daily local podcast and newsletter teams. This key content leader will be responsible for ensuring that City Cast podcasts and newsletters are highly engaging, habit-forming, and essential daily listening and reading for locals in their cities. Our ideal candidate is a creative and dynamic leader with exceptional editorial instincts and the ability to bring out the best in people and products through coaching, feedback, and collaboration. The Content Director will be a thoughtful and diplomatic manager-of-managers who models effective conflict resolution and team building. Experience successfully collaborating with marketing and revenue teams is a plus. The Content Director will report to the Chief Creative Officer and will oversee 4-6 local City Cast teams, each composed of 4-6 staff.
Application Deadline: January 17th, 2025
Key Responsibilities:
- Help the city teams make their podcasts and newsletters continually better and more successful
- Ensure each City Cast podcast and newsletter meets our editorial, quality, and style standards
- Develop and disseminate key content insights and best practices across the network, helping drive the ambition, creativity, and audience appeal of our content
- Provide thoughtful, constructive, regular feedback to the city teams on a regular basis
- Work closely with Executive Producers and their teams to develop ambitious creative story and booking ideas, and to hone their visions for their local brands
- Ensure daily newsletters and web articles are consistent, accurate and formatted correctly
- Serve as a key interpreter of show and newsletter data; help identify meaningful trends and takeaways
- Work across the local editorial teams and membership team to develop and execute successful membership campaigns that utilize best practices while harnessing the authentic local sensibility
- Work across the local editorial teams and the revenue team to develop creative, distinctive sponsorship packages that meet our editorial standards while delighting advertisers
- Serve as an essential mentor and sounding board to Executive Producers as they navigate management challenges and staffing changes
- Lead key hiring processes during new show launches and staff turnover
- Help teams effectively “market” their daily episodes and newsletters via effective episode titles, subject lines, and article headlines
- Act as an essential liaison and connector across city teams and HQ
- Work with the CCO and your fellow Content Directors to innovate and shape the future of local journalism!
- Model and foster an inclusive, kind, supportive work environment that enables you and your team to do your best work, and hold staff accountable through constructive feedback, clear goals, and performance reviews.
- Recognize high performance and reward accomplishments.
- Create an inspiring team environment that upholds company values, with an open communication culture.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Interest in working in a nimble, fast-paced startup environment
- Exceptional creative instincts and the ability to explain your creative ideas clearly
- Experience coaching creative and editorial talent effectively; the ability to provide critical feedback directly and respectfully
- An understanding of what makes for compelling conversational podcast content
- An understanding of what makes for a great daily newsletter and short-form web articles
- A thoughtful and inclusive approach to leadership and mentorship
- Boundless creativity, a positive attitude, resourcefulness, and a passion for local media
- Experience producing podcasts
- Experience working on a daily turnaround
- Experience working at a remote-first organization
Required:
- At-least 2 years managing a creative or editorial team, ideally in audio
- Journalism degree or equivalent editorial experience
This position is full-time and remote, with competitive benefits. Our salary range is $120K - $135K, depending on experience. City Cast is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity, which involves attracting talented people from diverse backgrounds and traditions. Read more about our mission and values here. We encourage everyone to apply.
