Executive Producer, Marketplace

This is a Full Time Job


It's an exciting time to join Marketplace. We are an industry leader in telling meaningful and creative stories on the radio with close to 13 million listeners, and we're evolving into a multi-media enterprise centered around the ambition of raising the economic intelligence of all Americans. Marketplace is an ambitious shop, fueled by ambitious ideas. This is a place of creativity and unorthodox thinking. We don't take ourselves too seriously, even though we understand the critical importance of people understanding how the economy shapes the world around us.

We are looking for a strong editorial leader to take the reins of the Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace Tech and create dynamic franchises and coverage plans that will redefine these long-standing assets. This role pushes the boundaries beyond the productions to deliver storytelling, financial journalism, and engagement across our other broadcast and digital platforms.

Our mission is to raise the economic intelligence of the country and that means we make news about business and the economy easily understandable for everyone. Storytelling and diversity power this mission. We do so through clear writing, creative production, inclusive sourcing, and story selection. We deliver our content via social, video, online, and broadcast channels.

This role needs to be nimble, able to shift direction depending on what is happening in the news cycle. This position is a management role and will be responsible for leading, motivating, and guiding teams of journalists. In addition to managing the people, this role will also be responsible for planning special projects and special coverage as well as managing our day-to-day relationship with the BBC.

We are looking for someone who has demonstrated success in growing audiences across all platforms and who brings fresh ideas and new voices and approaches to business and economics coverage. This is a key role in the newsroom and will be a key part of the editorial leadership team at Marketplace.

Compensation Range: $128,561-$192,842 annually. The exact salary is determined by experience and education related to the role, organizational compensation structure, and internal equity.

Application Deadline: This position will be posted until is filled.

Location: New York

Your Role:
• Sets and implements editorial direction and planning.
• Lead strategy to achieve insightful, distinctive, original coverage of tech and the tech economy for audio and digital platforms.
• Work with Executive Editor and show producers to determine priorities, develop new coverage streams, series or other special coverage, and scheduling.
• Direct, mentor and develop show producers to encourage growth and succession.
• Ensures production standards are excellent.
• Assign and edit interviews and stories that meet or exceed Marketplace standards for originality, insight, and sound/digital quality.
• Assigns reporter stories ensuring forward-looking ideas and “on the business news” cycle.
• Serves as senior quality control staff member for program material.
• Leads efforts in the digital realm working closely with the MP digital team.
• Hire, supervise, train, and manage direct staff through coaching, mentorship, performance meetings and on-going feedback and work with HR on performance issues as needed.
• Foster a creative and productive work environment. Create development opportunities and development plans for staff and training to enhance skills and foster growth.
• Accountability to equitable and inclusive coverage that is diverse in source and story choices as well as geography of guests.
• Member of editorial management team charged with running Marketplace.
• Oversees programming pipeline.
• Initiates and oversees special programming coordinating with editorial leadership, marketing, digital, on-demand and other leaders across APMG.
• Develop and execute strategies on audience growth for MMR, MP Tech podcast and show.
• Leads recruiting and training; participates in departmental recruiting and training.
• Manages budgets as needed.
• Works closely with other departments in the company to maximize show potential.
• Represent Marketplace to external constituents to expand reach of Marketplace.
• Assists with fundraising as appropriate.
• Manage partner output from the BBC (Cast 1) and Tech sources and contributors.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree OR equivalent work experience.
• 10 of more years experience including five years at the management / supervisory level.
• Experience in radio news production, particularly news magazine programs.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:
• Solid news judgment, including an awareness of general news. Someone who thinks big and can create memorable journalism, but who also can manage the myriad details of daily and weekly production.
• The ability to think across platforms -- digital, radio, text, social – and understand how each adds to your editorial mission.
• Flexible under daily deadline pressure, able to work effectively and collaboratively with hosts and other staff.
• High journalistic standards and a vision of what they want the shows to be each day and over the long term.
• Must have sense for the Marketplace style, rhythm, and sound.
• Highly motivated, well organized, and flexible.
• Must care passionately about excellence in all aspects of the program. Must have tremendous energy, ambition, and drive to make Marketplace programs even better.
• Strong oral communication, interviewing skills; writing, and editing skills.
• Leadership and personnel skills and ability to develop high-performing teams.
• Experience managing a team.
• Ability to motivate, train and grow employees.
• Ability to consistently work well with others and to inspire and lead the staff.

Preferred Skills and Experience:
• Digital audio editing experience preferred.
• Background in business, finance, and the economy.
• Understanding and empathy of societal issues that revolve around money.
• National experience.
• Knowledge of public radio.
• Knowledge of the high-tech community and its impact on business and culture.

Reporting to this position:
• Producers (5-8)

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
• Must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to manage some work outside of standard office hours as needed.
• Physical Demands:
• Required to move about in an office environment and sit for extended periods of time
• Required to move about in the community
• Frequent use of hands for data entry/keystrokes and simple grasping.
• Working Conditions:
• Moderate noise level
• Occasional exposure to prevalent weather conditions

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We are committed to hiring a breadth of diverse professionals and encourage members of diverse groups to apply.