Producer (Audio) London, England
Job description
At Penguin Random House Audio, the UK’s leading audiobook publisher, we are dedicated to making the very best audiobooks. Working with exceptional talent, producers and studios, we publish award-winning and bestselling audiobooks such as Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club series, Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other, Stephen Fry’s Troy and Dr Julie Smith’s Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
We have an exciting opportunity to join this fast-paced team as a Producer working in our in-house and external studios.
The Opportunity
Reporting into our Senior Producer, this role will play a lead role delivering high-quality and innovative audiobooks across Penguin Random House working across our production, studio and post-production teams.
Day to day, you can expect to be
Directing and engineering recording sessions for a number of Penguin Studios productions, working across a broad range of genres.
Leaning into author care and talent management; ensuring everybody who records in Penguin Studios has a great experience.
Meticulously preparing for every recording, reading each text and preparing detailed notes on pronunciation, character and tone.
Briefing and monitoring post-production on your own titles, including reading proof reports, listening to final masters and advising on sound effects, music and other design elements.
Regularly feeding back on recording learnings, promoting a culture of sharing information across the wider team.
Undertaking any research to support productions or compiling pronunciations for books with extensive foreign, specialist or complex language.
What you’ll bring
We’d love to hear from you if you combine a love for literature and hands-on experience producing audio within different genres and styles.
You’ll have:
Between 1-3 years’ experience in audio production whether that be in audiobooks, radio, or podcasts
An understanding of audio technology, including recording interfaces, recording software, microphones, and compressors.
Experience directing actors and readers for the best possible audio performance.
New ideas and creativity around how to produce innovative and market-leading audiobooks.
Confidence working with senior stakeholders across projects.
The ability to juggle various projects at any one time.
If you’d like to help to shape the future of audiobooks, the fastest-growing area of publishing, please apply to us with a CV and cover letter by midnight on Thursday 23rd February.
What you can expect from us:
Salary: Circa £33,000 depending on how your skills and experience align with the role, plus bonus and benefits
While our offices are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility about where you work is just as important for doing your best work and for your wellbeing. For this role, all recordings and some meetings will need to be attended in person at our offices in Embassy Gardens. We are open to discussing the exact balance of office to remote working (e.g. for text prep) through the recruitment process.
Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:
- 27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
- Medical cover
- Life assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Generous pension scheme
- Summer working hours (role dependent)
- Volunteering policy and charity matching
- Employee Assistance programme
- Mentoring programme
- Extended gender neutral parental leave
- Access to books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK
- Each site has trained mental health first aiders
- We plant a tree for every new employee to our business
Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.
As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we’re part of the 'offer an interview' scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can’t take all eligible candidates to interview. We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at http://[email protected]. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here: www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/applying-for-roles-with-a-disability
We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org/
Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.
Company: The Random House Group Limited
Country: United Kingdom
State/Region: London
City: London
Postal Code: SW11
Job ID: 246082
