Contract True Crime Senior Producer
A project or contract position
Fully remote: working with a USA-based team at Western Sound.
Salary range: $95,000 to $115,000 (yearly rate) - subject to experience
We’re hiring two experienced, True Crime producers to work on an exciting new, weekly show.
Western Sound is a podcast production company based in Los Angeles, Calif. We’re hiring a producer and senior producer with strong reporting and writing skills to make an exciting, new, weekly, true crime show that’s sure to be a chart-topper.
Candidates for these roles should have experience working in True Crime, including finding compelling stories, reporting them out, accessing criminal court records and databases, gaining access to sources, and writing long form content.
Additionally, you should be a “full stack” producer – able to record interviews, edit audio, direct hosts, and add music and sound design to create dynamic and exciting mixes. Social video editing is a plus.
Candidates for the senior producer position should have all those skills and additional experience running shows, including creating editorial processes, evaluating stories, editing longform audio, strong host direction skills, and client management experience.
This is a weekly show, expected to go about a year, so you’ll be working under tight deadlines week-in and week-out. You must be a highly organized producer, quick decision-maker, and very fast cutter. These positions are 100% remote but the show host is located in Southern California so there’s a strong preference for local people.
Folks from diverse backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply.
About you:
- You have a minimum 4 years experience producing long form, true crime podcasts, including reporting and writing.
- You have experience recording, cutting and mixing tape into complete stories.
- You’re very good at Descript and Pro Tools
- You’re a very good long form audio writer — structuring stories and broadcast writing come very easy to you, as does writing to tape in creative ways
- You are very organized in everything from note taking, to tracking source material, to your Pro Tools sessions, to creating episode archives
- Additionally, senior producer candidates should have a minimum 3 years long form editing experience, minimum 2 years show running experience, and demonstrable client management experience
The details:
Job title: Contract Producer or Contract Senior Producer (depending on experience / skill level)
Compensation (total contract): senior producer: 95k – 115k (estimated 12 month timeframe)
Benefits: Not eligible
Location: Remote but strong preference for Southern California (our studios are in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood)
To apply: send your resume and a cover letter that speaks directly to your relevant qualifications to jobs@western-sound.com. Use the subject: “Contract Senior Producer Position.” Include where you are located and minimum three audio samples that are directly relevant to this statement of work.
Application deadline: Feb. 28, 2025
Western Sound puts diversity at the core of our business: our employees’ diverse backgrounds, orientations, histories, and cultures make our shows better, more interesting and more successful.
Western Sound is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, disability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by law.
To apply
To apply: send your resume and a cover letter that speaks directly to your relevant qualifications to jobs@western-sound.com. Use the subject: “Contract Senior Producer Position.” Include where you are located and minimum three audio samples that are directly relevant to this statement of work.
Please mention podnews.net in your application.
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