Senior Producer, Video & Live Journalism

Location: New York, NY or Washington, DC

Salary: $130,000–$160,000 annually, based on individual experience and skills.

Company

hirify.global is a global news platform delivering transparent reporting and insights on the forces shaping business, politics, technology, and world affairs.

What you will do

• Own interview-led video shows from concept through research, pre-interviews, host preparation, production, post-production, and publication.
• Develop candid, news-making conversations with CEOs, executives, policymakers, reporters, and other public figures.
• Produce hosts and editorial talent by refining interview approach, pacing, on-camera voice, and chemistry.
• Lead studio, field, remote, and event-based shoots, coordinating crews, vendors, schedules, budgets, travel, releases, and technical requirements.
• Partner with live-journalism, events, newsroom, and audience teams to create livestreams, full conversations, backstage interviews, recaps, previews, and short-form content.
• Direct edits and platform-native distribution while using retention, watch time, click-through, completion, and returning-viewer data to improve formats and publishing strategy.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in a newsroom, broadcast organization, or digital news operation, with significant responsibility for video journalism or interview-led programming.
• Exceptional editorial judgment and strong knowledge of business, economics, politics, technology, global affairs, and corporate leadership.
• Experience working directly with prominent hosts, reporters, correspondents, executives, or public figures.
• Sophisticated understanding of YouTube and LinkedIn, including audience expectations, packaging, tone, length, and success metrics.
• Strong technical fluency across cameras, lighting, audio, editing, livestreaming, and delivery.
• Entrepreneurial approach and willingness to combine strategy definition with hands-on execution in a growing newsroom.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a growing global newsroom focused on rigorous, transparent, and independent journalism.
• Collaborate across newsroom, audience, live-journalism, and events teams.
• Full-time salaried employees receive flexible paid time off without a prescribed limit or defined balance.