Senior Producer

• Researching for Guests
• Monitor You Tube, social media platforms, and cultural trends to identify emerging voices, outliers, and high-value potential guests.
• Analyse social, search, and audience trends to create a data-informed guest booking strategy, ensuring our podcasts remain timely, relevant, and engaging.
• Conduct in-depth research on potential guests ahead of pitching to Steven, including their expertise, background, and alignment with DOAC themes, spotting unique angles to make episodes stand out.
• Stay ahead of industry trends to identify untapped opportunities for featuring individuals who bring fresh perspectives to our audiences.
• Work closely with the research team to ideate and execute creative storytelling elements for episodes, including props, imagery, and other visual aids.
• When needed, proactively handle administrative tasks, such as securing release forms.
• Monitor and analyse guest booking trends, providing actionable recommendations to enhance overall processes and the guest experience.
• Identify when episodes warrant in-depth documentary-style research, evaluating opportunities for a deeper dive into compelling stories or underrepresented topics.
• Collaborate with the Head of Story Production to locate and secure contacts, experts, and contributors essential for producing high-quality content.
• Conduct advanced outreach to potential collaborators, building bridges to key individuals and organisations who can enrich the narrative.
• Develop workflows to manage the additional complexity of in-depth research episodes, ensuring seamless integration with the wider production team.
• Develop extended ideas to booked guests on how the episode could be elevated.
  
  E.g. external interviews, props etc.
• Pitch ideas in a formulated fashion to host.
• Plan, budget and execute ideas to the highest level whilst making sure there is an alignment of trends.
• Manage logistics and guest liaison on day of filming.
• Support the Production Director in the operations of DOAC filming, ensuring smooth processes across all guests and research.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with high-profile guests and their teams.
• Ability to analyse social, search, cultural, and audience trends to create a data-informed guest booking strategy.
• A keen interest in data You Tube, AI and how it can optimise guest booking and management processes.
• Exceptional organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.
• Availability to attend out-of-hours recordings, including evenings and weekends when needed.
• Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making skills, especially in limited time frames.
• Commitment to organisational tools and systems to optimise workflows and priorities.
• Passion for delivering seamless, memorable guest experiences and recordings that set the standard for excellence.
• Regular exposure or deep working knowledge of news and current affairs.

Demonstrates expertise in researching and identifying high-value guests through data-informed strategies, while effectively managing logistics and enhancing guest experiences. Strong ability to analyze trends and collaborate with production teams to create compelling content.

• Data Analysis
• Guest Booking Strategy
• Communication Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Trend Monitoring

• Researching
• Data Analysis
• Social Media Monitoring
• Audience Trend Analysis
• Guest Liaison
• Logistics Management
• Creative Storytelling
• Documentary Research
• Workflow Development
• Budget Planning

• Interpersonal Skills
• Problem-Solving
• Decision-Making
• Time Management
• Collaboration

• Cultural Trends
• High-Profile Guests
• Current Affairs
• Podcast Production
• Content Creation

• You Tube
• AI Tools
• Organizational Tools