Senior Vice President, NPR Content Strategy & Business Development

Location: Hybrid role requiring at least 3 days per week in the Washington, D.C. office; residence required in the D.C. metropolitan area, including Washington, D.C., Maryland, or Virginia.

Salary: $290,000–$350,000 USD annually, plus benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a mission-driven multimedia organization producing news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations.

What you will do

• Lead the strategy for external content partnerships, enterprise distribution, and revenue-generating alliances.
• Identify, negotiate, and close content distribution, co-production, syndication, and IP licensing deals.
• Expand distribution through digital news aggregators, streaming platforms, newsletter networks, public media systems, and audio ecosystems.
• Structure operational agreements and joint ventures while protecting editorial standards and independence.
• Oversee contract lifecycles, intellectual property rights, licensing terms, revenue sharing, budgets, and capital expenditures.
• Lead divisional OKR planning, workforce strategy, resource allocation, and partnership performance reporting.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in media business development, content licensing, distribution, or syndication within news or digital publishing.
• Proven success initiating, negotiating, and closing complex, revenue-generating content partnerships.
• Active network of media executives, syndicators, platform leads, and distribution decision-makers.
• Expertise in IP licensing, copyright agreements, syndication contracts, and revenue-sharing models.
• Experience collaborating with journalists, newsroom leaders, legal teams, finance, product, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, media studies, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Understanding of public media systems, member-supported networks, or federated nohirify.globalofit distribution models.
• Experience with episodic audio, podcast network syndication, connected-car, or smart-device audio ecosystems.
• Familiarity with public media sponsorship rules, nohirify.globalofit business parameters, and FCC regulatory environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on journalism, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility.
• Collaborative workplace emphasizing diverse perspectives, inclusion, and ethical standards.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits for eligible full-time employees and dependents.
• Paid time off, financial well-being programs, and voluntary retirement savings.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and related insurance options.