Senior Producer, Times Podcasts

Job Description

As a Senior Producer in our podcast team, you’ll be responsible for generating, driving and overseeing our output on all platforms with the same scope, ambition and rigorous standards as the other journalism produced by The Times and The Sunday Times.

Working primarily on our flagship news show, The Story, this will involve cooperating with reporters, correspondents and section editors on both individual episodes and multi-part series. This is an exciting and demanding full-time role and will require regular Sunday working. You’ll be part of a small, supportive and successful team working sometimes unpredictable hours and under tight deadlines to meet the demands of that day’s story.

At times, you may work on other of our slate of shows.

You’ll have proven editorial and legal judgement, experience of audio / multi-platform production and be a team player. The role combines programme-making, people management, platform expertise, and data-led analysis of our audience and subjects, as well as the ability to constantly adapt to changing circumstances to deliver the best version of our news, investigative and current affairs reporting.

• Work with your Executive Producer and Producers to execute the show’s strategy across seven days and multiple formats

• Identify growth opportunities across platforms, formats, and audiences, aiming to surprise our existing audience and appeal to new audiences

• Collaborate with other editorial, platform and marketing teams to align audience goals with broader brand objectives

• Work creatively to produce podcast content for daily, weekly and serialized publication. As a Senior Producer, you will be responsible for outputting around two episodes per week with all the editorial, legal and other responsibilities this entails

• Maintain the highest editorial and production standards, including liaison with our legal and compliance teams

• Liaise with those teams working elsewhere within the papers and on other of our podcasts

• Be part of consequential and complex editorial decision-making processes, often under pressure of a deadline and escalating these when necessary

• Be part of the team’s continued evolution, including working on new formats, new ways to telling stories, bonus and afternoon editions and field production / reporting

• Be committed to realising the best quality podcast content not just nationally but internationally

• Work independently to manage your own work and generate a flow of fresh ideas for both new subjects and the treatment of subjects as required

• Potentially work unsociable hours, including weekends

• Experience of daily news, investigative and/or current affairs reporting, ideally within a newspaper or media organisation

• A strong understanding and practical experience of British media law. This is non-negotiable.

• Understanding of podcast research, production and storytelling, including narrative and non-narrative models

• Deep experience of podcast or audio production, including the use of Descript, Adobe Audition and ideally Adobe Premiere

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate it into new approaches to content making

• Experience of working well under pressure and the ability to constantly adapt in a changing work environment and/or demands of that day’s story

• Experience of working to strict editorial standards and legal requirements within a media environment

• Experience of working well within a team

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