What are the responsibilities and job description for the Deputy Head of Audio/Video position at POLITICO?
POLITICO has combined its audio and video operations into a single, high-impact global unit, and is looking for an editorial leader to continue its growth. As Deputy Head of Audio & Video, you’ll help launch, oversee and grow a portfolio of shows across all POLITICO geographies—amplifying our newsroom’s reporting and reaching new audiences with optimized formats on the platforms they use.
You’ll report to the VP of Audio/Video and work closely with editorial leadership to ensure every show meets POLITICO’s brand and journalistic standards. You’ll manage and develop producers across audio and video and help build a best-in-class team. Our team works across video and audio and publishes across platforms, including social media. The ideal candidate will have familiarity with all these spaces, but may have more expertise in certain areas.
What You'll Do
Leadership & Strategy
Experience
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About Us.
POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.
Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.
Our 1,100 publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.
Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.
These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.
POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. Learn more about Axel Springer.
You’ll report to the VP of Audio/Video and work closely with editorial leadership to ensure every show meets POLITICO’s brand and journalistic standards. You’ll manage and develop producers across audio and video and help build a best-in-class team. Our team works across video and audio and publishes across platforms, including social media. The ideal candidate will have familiarity with all these spaces, but may have more expertise in certain areas.
What You'll Do
Leadership & Strategy
- Refine and execute the company’s audio and video strategy in partnership with editorial leadership
- Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing team; set clear goals, roles, and timelines
- Provide editorial guidance and foster a collaborative, creative culture with high standards
- Set and run audience-growth strategies: distribution best practices, platform optimization, social media, and external partnerships
- Oversee end-to-end production of key shows; keep complex, multi-part workflows moving
- Develop platform-specific formats and efficient production systems across audio and video
- Partner across the newsroom to identify and pilot new podcast concepts; define a visual identity for podcast video
- Track and analyze performance metrics and translate them into actionable growth plans
- Stay ahead of industry trends; evaluate and integrate new tools and techniques where they add value
- Collaborate with Communications, Marketing, and Social to evolve portfolio-wide growth strategies
- Work with the Live Events team to extend POLITICO’s live journalism through audio/video.
Experience
- 7 years in audio production, including 2 years in a leadership role (or equivalent combination of experience)
- Experience launching and running successful audio or video shows
- Experience in journalism and deep knowledge of its norms and standards
- Strong grasp of the audio landscape and, ideally, working knowledge of digital video.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and inspire multidisciplinary teams
- Expert organizer who can manage multiple projects, balance competing priorities, and hit deadlines
- Excellent communicator who collaborates effectively across stakeholders
- Relationships with distribution platforms and experience working with external partners to reach new audiences.
- Sharp editorial judgment with a record of developing standout shows and compelling visual/audio storytelling
- Creative problem-solver who can navigate complex technical or production challenges under tight deadlines
- Fluency in podcasting, social, and video trends and how they translate to audience growth
We value our people. Click here for more on what we offer and what it’s like to work for POLITICO.
About Us.
POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.
Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.
Our 1,100 publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.
Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.
These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.
POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. Learn more about Axel Springer.
