Assistant Content Director

Location: San Diego, California, United States; onsite at 4575 Viewridge Ave

Compensation starting at $120,000 annually, commensurate with experience and skill level.

Company

hirify.global operates local media stations and multiplatform newsrooms.

What you will do

• Help lead daily operations of a multiplatform newsroom across broadcast, streaming, digital, social, and emerging platforms.
• Lead editorial meetings, coverage planning, special projects, breaking news execution, and newsroom operations.
• Oversee staffing, resource deployment, workflows, and multiplatform coverage of major events and breaking news.
• Lead recruitment, coaching, training, performance management, and development of content staff and future newsroom leaders.
• Partner with newsroom leadership on audience-focused content strategy, experimentation, and adoption of new tools and workflows.
• Use audience data and newsroom metrics to improve content decisions, distribution, engagement, and performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Seven or more years of newsroom leadership experience.
• Exceptional news judgment and commitment to journalistic ethics.
• Strong understanding of broadcast, digital, streaming, social, and emerging media platforms.
• Experience leading a modern multiplatform newsroom, adapting to changing technologies and audience behaviors, improving workflows, leading organizational change, and driving innovation in content strategy and distribution.
• Proven ability to lead teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and influence through consensus, relationship-building, and trust.
• Working knowledge of audience analytics, digital publishing platforms, and content management systems.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, emotional intelligence, and decision-making skills.
• Availability for a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, holidays, and breaking news situations.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, high-performing newsroom culture based on coaching, mentorship, active listening, clear communication, and trust.
• Empathy, credibility, accountability, and staff engagement are expected during organizational change.
• Work emphasizes experimentation with new platforms, storytelling approaches, technology, and audience-focused workflows.
• Onsite work in San Diego with a flexible schedule required for newsroom coverage.