Project Management Manager, Video Podcasts

This is a Full Time Job

Manager, Project Management, Video Podcasts

Job Summary:

This role supports a high-volume slate of approximately 15 podcast series per year. The Manager works closely with teams across Hulu, Disney Branded Television, ABC, Marvel, and more. The Manager sits at the center of the company's podcast productions, leading orchestration of workflows with other team members, including the Senior Producer and Creative Director.

Responsibilities
• Create processes that improve efficiency, keep costs down, and save resources and implement them to scale.
• Connect dots between teams and new verticals/ forecast obstacles and problem solve.
• Long lead planning of podcast post schedules.
• Manage post schedules with input from production, strategy, creative, finishing, mastering, and localization teams.
• Keep everyone on task and on deadline with weekly syncs, status updates, etc.
• Organize best practice guidelines across legal, design & brand systems, strategy, and creative to inform podcast franchise consistency.
• Handle creative/post contracts & invoices with vendors.
• Support Senior Producer with:
• Facilitating graphics, VO scripts.
• Securing pre-release episodes for talent prior to shoot, and editable episodes to vendor.
• Tracking approvals & feedback.
• QCing episodes for brand continuity, graphics & tech errors, etc.
• Oversee trafficking of masters and final episodes/marketing assets to various teams & platforms.
• Mastering & QC.
• Localization.
• On channel ingest.
• On channel showpage creation & deliverables.
• YouTube episodes.

Basic Qualifications
• 5+ years experience project managing video-driven content such as podcasts, talk shows, digital series, or unscripted formats.
• Demonstrated experience tracking podcast production from conception to launch.
• Ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional partners.
• Strong understanding of pre-production and post-production workflows, including scope of work creation, vendor contracting, mastering, QC-ing, and finishing.
• Exceptional communication and organizational skills, with the ability to navigate multiple shows simultaneously.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience project managing video podcasts or longform interview-driven content.
• Familiarity with the Disney ecosystem (Hulu, DBT, Marvel, FX, Nat Geo).
• Experience working across departments and teams.
• Proven ability to maintain high organizational standards.