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Since launching in January 2023, our flagship daily newsletter and social media channels engage with millions of people each day, and our AI University gets hands-on and educates thousands of members how to use the tools that are quickly becoming a part of daily work.
Our mission is to help 1 billion people work faster using AI and contribute to a more productive society. If you share our passion, we'd love to chat! ❤️
About the role
As Podcast Producer at The Rundown, you’ll own the end-to-end production of our podcast operation. This role is responsible for sourcing and booking high-quality guests, managing production workflows, coordinating schedules, and ensuring every episode is delivered smoothly and at a high editorial standard.
You’ll work closely with hosts, editors, social, and leadership to help scale the podcast into a category-defining media property. Our ambition is to build one of the most valuable and widely recognised AI podcasts in the world, reaching millions of professionals, founders, operators, and AI enthusiasts every week.
This is a high-ownership role for someone excited to help build and scale a modern media operation at speed.
Key Responsibilities
Own podcast production end-to-end: Manage the full production pipeline from guest outreach and scheduling through recording, post-production, publishing, and delivery.
Source and book high-quality guests: Identify and secure compelling founders, operators, creators, and AI experts that align with our audience and editorial goals.
Support hosts with episode preparation: Prepare briefing documents, talking points, key discussion angles, and episode structures to help hosts deliver stronger conversations.
Coordinate production workflows: Manage calendars, guest communication, recording logistics, approvals, budgets, schedules, and timelines across multiple stakeholders and time zones.
Collaborate with post-production: Work closely with editors and content teams to ensure episodes, clips, thumbnails, titles, and assets are delivered on time and at quality.
Improve the format over time: Use audience feedback, analytics, trends, and performance data to continuously improve episode quality, guest selection, and show structure.
Build scalable systems: Create repeatable workflows, guest outreach systems, briefing templates, and production processes as the podcast operation grows.
Our ideal candidate
Experience in podcast or content production: You’ve worked on podcasts, interview formats, YouTube shows, or similar media productions with multiple moving parts.
Strong organisational skills: You can manage timelines, calendars, stakeholders, and production schedules without things slipping through the cracks.
Great communicator: You’re comfortable communicating with executives, creators, guests, and internal teams in a professional and efficient way.
Strong editorial and research instincts: You understand what makes a compelling guest, strong conversation flow, engaging content, and insightful research for a business and tech audience.
Comfortable operating at speed: You can manage multiple episodes in production simultaneously while maintaining quality and reliability.
AI-fluent: You actively use AI tools to support research, workflows, coordination, and production efficiency.
What we offer
A chance to own an editorial category at the fastest-growing media brand in AI, reaching 2M+ professionals.
A global team that is passionate about the future of AI, media & education.
Competitive compensation, flexible hours & fully remote work.
Location Fully remote. Our team members live in Canada, USA, UK, Switzerland, and more.
