Limited Term Branded Content Producer

KQED is building a branded and sponsored content business around some of its most valuable digital properties, including Snap Judgment, Spooked, and a growing slate of social, video, audio, and multiplatform formats. The Branded Content Producer will lead the creative development and execution of sold campaigns while helping establish the workflows, production infrastructure, and partner network needed to grow this emerging business responsibly.

We are looking for a versatile, entrepreneurial producer who can work across the full lifecycle of branded content, from concept development through final delivery. As the first dedicated production hire for this business, this person will operate across multiple functions and build the operational foundation that future hires will support. The Branded Content Producer will sit within the digital video team and work in close partnership with KQED’s Sponsorship team.

This is a Full-Time Limited Term Role for 3 years. Salary Range: $92.068- $115085 Annually

QED envisions a public media organization with a culture that centers on human dignity, equity, and belonging. This will enable us to better serve and reflect the Bay Area through diverse and inclusive storytelling.

We value the contributions of marginalized people in society — including Black, Indigenous, and all people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people — and we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, and we strongly encourage members of these communities to apply.

KQED Code of Ethics https://www.kqed.org/about/code-ethics

The mission that drives us:

KQED provide citizens of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media. We provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the arts to everyone and engage audiences to share their stories. We help students and teachers thrive in 21st-century classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration- exposing them to new people, places and ideas.

This role will work hybrid between working in KQED's newly renovated headquarters and working remotely.

• Translate client objectives and KQED audience insights into platform-appropriate concepts, treatments, scripts, scopes of work, deliverables, timelines, and production budgets across video, social, audio, digital, and experiential formats.
• Turn around initial creative concepts within 48 hours of receiving an RFP, using a standard template that the Sponsorship team can present to prospective clients.
• Participate in pre-sale conversations as needed to present creative concepts, explain production approaches, and answer client questions.
• Assess the creative, operational, and financial feasibility of opportunities before they are sold, identifying assumptions, constraints, rights requirements, production capacity, and costs to reflect in the client agreement.

• Serve as the primary production contact for clients after a project is sold, leading kickoffs, setting expectations, presenting creative work, managing feedback and approvals, and addressing changes in scope, schedule, or budget.
• Own multiple projects simultaneously from kickoff through closeout, balancing client commitments, editorial standards, production capacity, budgets, and delivery deadlines.
• Maintain a clear view of active and prospective projects, schedules, budgets, deliverables, dependencies, and resource needs, and communicate risks to leadership and Sponsorship partners.
• Coordinate with Sponsorship, Legal, Business Affairs, Editorial, Marketing, Audience Development, Finance, Production Operations, and other internal…