Senior Brand Content Producer, POLITICO Focus

Job Description:

POLITICO’s mission from the very beginning has been to win the audience. We dedicate ourselves to providing the accurate, non-partisan, impactful insights and analysis policy influencers and decision-makers need to do their jobs. We experiment to avoid being disrupted and we have fun disrupting others. And we are not afraid to risk failure if it means being the best at what we do.

POLITICO Focus is POLITICO’s award-winning in-house brand studio that crafts custom sponsored content solutions for some of the world’s most consequential organizations. We’re looking for a senior brand content producer to join our team of storytellers to create breakthrough digital experiences that solve complex brand positioning and issue advocacy challenges. The senior brand content producer will lead production of custom client activations, from concept to launch, including project and timeline management; story research and content planning; creative ideation; content reviews and edits with vendors; launch and quality assurance (QA) testing support; and promotional planning and campaign analytics.

As part of POLITICO’s broader revenue team, you will also work with internal product, sales and client management leads to help brainstorm responses to new business proposals and productize new content vehicles to bring to market. Additionally, this role will support discrete POLITICO Focus marketing, revenue, and other operational initiatives as needed.

Who you are:

• Curious: You are driven by inquiry and an insatiable desire to learn. You explore and research new topics with vigor, seamlessly going from questioning to conversant on a brand and its issues without prompting.
• Inventive: You are a storyteller with an eye for strong creative and the mentality of a reporter. You can judge the UX and UI of a campaign on both substance and style. You’re passionate about content and its creation, and you can craft a compelling story narrative that resonates. You know how to connect a client’s vision, goals and KPIs with the information needs of POLITICO’s high-level influencer audience and compelling visuals that drive engagement. You know how to leverage the right voices to deliver the right messages.
• Detail-oriented: You can see across a project and execute big picture, connecting all the moving pieces without sacrificing the details. You are incredibly deadline-driven, but without letting efficiency come at the cost of thoroughness and precision.
• Collaborative: You take ownership, while fostering collaboration across teams, and can assess complex situations and distill them into priorities. You can help cultivate multi-layer client relationships with poise, authenticity and credibility.

What you’ll do:

• Dig deep into client initiatives to make strategic product and storytelling recommendations and create custom content campaigns that advance brand priorities.
• Drive the execution of digital content by shepherding the entire campaign lifecycle including everything from concept and distribution planning to production of creative assets, to trafficking and quality assurance, to analytics-based optimization – consistently hitting deadlines.
• Work with clients, POLITICO’s advertising team, contributors (writers, developers, designers, etc.) and the Focus team members to deliver the best experience to our readers and partners.

What you’ll need:

• 6-8 years of project management/digital content creation experience working in media, journalism, advertising, public affairs and/or public relations, with deep experience working with writers, designers and developers.
• Strong writing and editing skills. Fluency of AP Style.
• Strong presentation skills, including the ability to articulate our studio’s products and value to key stakeholders, along with the ability pivot or strategize in real time, when necessary, within the evolution of a client engagement or on a client call.
• Knowledge of the DC policy/government relations/advocacy landscape.
• Enough knowledge to be dangerous in one or more of the following preferred: Celtra, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Analytics, DoubleClick, HTML + CSS and JavaScript, code and/or CMS, or Sound Cloud and other podcasting tools. Graphic design and editing skills are a significant plus.

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About Us.

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer.

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