Executive Producer, Social

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.

We are looking for an executive producer, social
, to lead a dedicated team of social producers and commission and executive produce our news, features and opinion social media content off-platform.

This role will oversee the production of short-form video while also producing, editing and repurposing video, photography, text and graphics to bring our journalism to new audiences in creative and compelling ways. No subject is off-limits. We cover everything - including global politics, the climate crisis, culture, and pure human-interest stories.

This is a permanent, full-time position working a nine-day fortnight, which will include weekend work, early and late shifts.

• Oversee daily story selection and editing for off-platform journalism, focusing on Instagram and Tik Tok
• Direct and sign off concepts and design and work with producers and hosts on areas such as scripting, style and picture selection
• Ensure posts and videos meet the highest editorial and technical standards and legal compliance, making confident editorial decisions on verification, and copyright
• Work with the head of short-form and head of video to commission and project manage social-first longer term projects and investigations
• Train new staff and manage the rota with administrators
• Work with our head of production to spend budgets efficiently and remain within agreed budget
• Work closely with other teams to share resources and execute collaborative projects, including communicating closely with the reactive video team
• Work with senior team members, channel managers, colleagues in marketing and other departments to set strategic course for audience expansion
• Ensure communication is smooth and collaborative with our colleagues on other desks and social media teams in Australia and the US
• Put in place systems to improve workflow
• This role is office-based and will not include on-the-ground shooting

• Extensive experience in visual and social news storytelling
• Experience working in a newsroom
• Experience working with all major social media platforms, underpinned by a nuanced understanding of each platform's unique ecosystem, and how to make and optimise content performance for each platform
• Experience managing a team, supporting and developing junior colleagues
• Understanding of how to make text, photos, graphics and video work together visually on social media
• Understanding of the specific needs of social media audiences
• Strong writing skills with a flair for summarising long, complex information into engaging and concise copy
• Familiarity with content management systems and analytics of all major social media platforms
• Substantial experience editing video and producing and editing videos for social media from start to finish using Adobe Premiere
• Design skills with ability to produce static content with Adobe Creative Suite and Figma
• Knowledge of Adobe After Effects, and ability to shoot video is a strong advantage
• Journalistic training including knowledge of media law and OSINT
• Strong news sense
• Strong planning and organisational skills, plus experience juggling multiple deadlines
• Digitally savvy with an aptitude for picking up new technical skills and analysing data
• An understanding of the evolving ways people…