LA Times Studios — El Segundo, California. On-site, full-time.

The Senior Podcast Producer leads the planning, development, and execution of complex or high-priority content and production projects from concept through delivery. This role combines sound content judgment, creative direction, and production expertise to deliver accurate, engaging, high-quality content aligned with company objectives and audience needs. The Senior Producer is accountable for content quality, production execution, and timely delivery and serves as the primary production decision-maker within established guidelines. This position manages production priorities, coordinates cross-functional resources, resolves complex content and production issues independently, and supervises assigned production staff.

Responsibilities
– Lead complex or high-priority productions from concept through delivery, with accountability for quality, execution, timelines, resources and budgets.
– Develop story ideas, formats and creative approaches; translate company objectives into production plans.
– Oversee research, scripts, outlines and production materials, ensuring accuracy, clarity and company standards.
– Direct production workflows; coordinate staff, talent, technical resources and cross-functional partners; resolve competing demands.
– Exercise independent judgment on complex content and production challenges and escalate sensitive matters.
– Supervise production staff, set expectations, delegate, coach and evaluate performance; participate in hiring and disciplinary actions with management and HR.
– Collaborate with distribution, marketing and audience teams to adapt content across platforms and implement improvements based on insights and results.
– Partner with leadership on future programming, formats, resources and workflow improvements.
– Other duties as assigned.

Requirements
– Nine or more years of progressively responsible content or media production experience.
– Three or more years supervising production staff, including assignments, coaching and performance evaluation.
– Experience leading complex productions or concurrent projects from concept through delivery.
– Strong independent content judgment involving sensitive subjects, risks and competing priorities.
– Strong writing, storytelling, verbal communication and creative direction skills.
– Experience coordinating talent, staff, technical resources and cross-functional partners.
– Working knowledge of relevant production workflows and tools, content standards, editorial integrity and quality control.
– Ability to manage competing deadlines and flexible production schedules.

Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Media Studies, Film/Television Production or a related field. Experience producing across formats and platforms, developing new programming, managing budgets, applying audience metrics and improving workflows and teams.

Additional Responsibilities
– Shape podcast formats, narrative arcs, interview approaches and scripts with hosts, reporters and editors.
– Direct studio, remote and on-location podcast recordings; guide hosts and guests and coordinate audio and video needs.
– Oversee audio editing, mixing, sound design, scoring and video edits.
– Oversee publishing: titles, descriptions, show notes, metadata and release schedules across podcast and video platforms.

Additional Requirements
– Professional audio and video podcast production experience, including weekly, seasonal or narrative series.
– Strong podcast storytelling, interview development, host preparation and script editing.
– Proficiency with Adobe Audition, Premiere Pro, Riverside or comparable tools.
– Knowledge of audio editing, mixing, sound design and podcast delivery standards.
– Familiarity with hosting, RSS feeds, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.
– Knowledge of journalistic sourcing, fact-checking and editorial review for news and investigative programming.

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Experience launching original series; investigative, documentary or serialized narrative podcasts; sponsorships and branded segments with editorial standards and disclosures; music and archival permissions; transcripts and captions.

The L.A. Times Studios, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified applicants regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The expected pay scale is $115,000 to $125,000, based on skills, experience, training, licenses, certifications and business needs. It is not typical to be hired at or near the top of the range. The employer recommends adding @dayforce.com as a safe sender for application correspondence.