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About the Role
WIRED is seeking a senior audio executive to lead and grow its flagship podcast feed, Uncanny Valley. This role involves overseeing two weekly podcasts, Uncanny Valley panel show and Big Interview conversation, and requires a leader with deep experience in audio journalism, talk formats, and a strong interest in politics, business, and tech. The Executive Producer will collaborate with global editorial teams to create compelling programming that embodies WIRED's brand.
Responsibilities
- Overseeing both shows, and actively producing at least one, including guest booking, coordination with video teams, show structure, performance, and edits.
- Providing close financial oversight of show budgets and direct management of contract producers and staff.
- Collaborating closely with Commercial and Consumer teams.
- Managing production and providing editorial direction and feedback to talent and staff.
- Identifying and recruiting ideas, potential guests, and contributors.
- Designing and implementing production processes to increase production quality, efficiency, and nimbleness.
- Producing lively, superbly-crafted episodes that meet WIRED’s exceptionally high standards.
- Collaborating with the podcast audience development team, including engaging in performance data reviews.
- Directing recordings on set, including approving camera framing, talent performance, capturing intro and outro segments, and partnering with a logistics team.
- Overseeing all audio and video edits and editing hands-on when needed, primarily in Descript.
- Ensuring every episode ships with platform-ready assets: full episodes, titles, clips, and thumbnails.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in audio, experience in talk formats and with the best practices of audio journalism.
- 5+ years of experience in a leadership role.
- Excellent listening skills, curiosity and empathy.
- Superior writing and communication skills.
- Demonstrated record of close work with high-level talent and skilled production staff.
- An ability to articulate what makes stories, conversations and podcasts great.
- A drive to understand and an ability to articulate what listeners want, and realize that in superbly produced audio.
- Exceptional planning ability, as well as the ability to think strategically.
- Deep familiarity with WIRED content, its writers, and its editorial POV.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and editorial judgment.
- An extended network of talent and production contacts.
- Superb taste, and an appetite for distinctive, adventurous conversations.
- Sharp understanding of the podcast media landscape for what makes a video episode or clip compelling.
Skills
- Audio production
- Talk formats
- Audio journalism
- Podcast production
- Video production coordination
- Guest booking
- Budget management
- Talent management
- Editorial direction
- Audience development
- ProTools
- Riverside
- Megaphone
- Descript
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7+ years of experience in audio
- 5+ years of experience in a leadership role
Salary/Compensations
- $145,000-185,000
Benefits
- Generous employee benefits package
- Discretionary bonus compensation
About the Company
- WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change to global security, from pandemic preparedness to the future of democracy, and tell stories of the people trying to solve these challenges and the role science and technology can play—for good or ill. WIRED reaches more than 30 million people each month through WIRED.com, our digital edition, the magazine, social media, and live events.
- At Condé Nast, we value diversity of background, views, and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, their skills, and their contributions. We recognize the power our brands have to influence and shape culture, catalyze action, and help make our world a better place for all.
Equal Opportunity
- Condé Nast is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status, and other legally protected characteristics.