Executive Producer, Stories of our Times London, England
Job description
The Team: Stories of our Times
Stories of our Times is the Times’ flagship podcast, and has become required listening as it tells one story in depth every day. From landmark, award-winning investigative series to one-off episodes telling compelling stories with production flair, Stories of our times is a high-quality showcase for Times journalism.
Your Role: Executive Producer
News Broadcasting is offering an exciting and rare opportunity to join The Times and The Sunday Times and News Broadcasting studios to manage and help lead the award winning Stories of our Times daily podcast team. The role will require creativity, experience in narrative podcasting and a news background.
Day to day you will:
Work alongside the existing executive producer to jointly lead and manage the podcast production team
Manage podcast production, including budgets, staffing and creative.
Produce industry leading regular original daily podcast programmes.
Lead and encourage other members of the team in best-in-class digital podcast practices.
Help oversee the development of landmark investigative mini-series within the Stories of our times brand
Work with the commercial team to produce content that generates revenue
Act as advocate for the project across the wider News UK corporation.
Due to the nature of the role, flexibility in the working hours is paramount.
What we’re looking for from you:
We are looking for an executive producer who is an efficient and confident communicator with extraordinary storytelling abilities, and who is proactive, has excellent writing skills and with creative ideas on how to make compelling content. Experience in multi-part series production would be an advantage.
Senior leadership experience with proven ability to manage a sizeable programme team
Strong editorial/narrative judgement with an excellent journalistic track record
Evidence of working as a producer to a high standard in a potentially stressful news environment
Ability to communicate on a leadership/executive level while managing the details of multiple daily productions
Audio storytelling with production on a successful podcast, news radio programme or relevant commercial podcasting know-how
Must have experience editing audio and be familiar with software.
Extensive experience in a fast paced digital environment, with an ability to anticipate and respond quickly to change.
Strong cross-departmental collaborative skills
Experience in investigative journalism would also be an asset.
We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend. talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Launched in June 2020 Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Aasmah Mir and Mariella Frostrup. And talkRADIO is redefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms, connected TV and beyond.
Life at News Broadcasting
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News Broadcasting supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
