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The Role
SoFi is looking for a podcast lover and operations expert to join the team as a content strategist for our educational podcast program. Our ideal candidate will be passionate about and experienced in podcast production, audio storytelling as an educational medium, and managing a content platform from end to end—conceptual planning, production, legal reviews, amplification, and reporting.
Here’s what else we’re looking for, in case it’s you! You have experience managing a content calendar, planning episodes, and creating engaging show formats. You are able to review scripts and pre-production documents, ensuring our podcast hosts and guests are set up for success. Audience research and content targeting are up your alley, and creating a marketing program around the podcast are tasks you’re eager to tackle. You are organized, deadline-oriented, and collaborate well with cross-functional partners, knowing when to push and when to pause. Previous experience in radio, journalism, or a related field is a plus.
You will join a brand-oriented content team whose mission is to make financial knowledge and empowerment more accessible by creating and distributing delightful financial literacy resources. This team has a diverse portfolio spanning the written word, audio, and video, all in service of helping members get their money right. In a world of misinformation, our goal is to deliver credible, clear, and compelling intelligence and insight.
What you’ll do
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of podcast production. Manage podcast operations and optimize work flows.
- Collaborate with production vendor on episode calendar, ensuring topics and guests align with program goals and objectives.
- Manage process for creating, reviewing, compliance, and archiving podcast content.
- Ensure a business case for the podcast program is clearly articulated, evaluated regularly, and measured against – sharing out with stakeholders on an ongoing basis. ○ Partner with data science to ensure performance insights are collected, interpreted, and socialized with a commitment to learning, iterating, and innovating.
- Oversee amplification of podcasts, amplifying them as a product.
- Partner with social teams to identify synergistic opportunities to amplify podcast material and tap into community conversations.
- Submit briefs and work directly with the design team to generate custom creative work. Guide internal creative producer energy.
- Manage vendor relationships and production tools as needed.
What you'll need
- You have experience producing a market and/or investing podcast, supporting strategic, creative, and operational workflows.
- You have experience managing a podcast platform as a business. You have experience partnering with leadership to prove the podcast program’s value through performance insights and reporting in a way that compels business and marketing leaders alike. You have experience articulating investment relative impact and can support strategic recommendations in the program accordingly.
- You have a Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of related experience or Master’s degree and 3+ years of related experience.
