City Cast

Role Description City Cast is seeking a Brand Design Lead to lead the visual expression of City Cast across our growing network of local media outlets, with a particular focus on brand consistency, revenue storytelling, campaign marketing, and sales enablement. This person will be the owner of City Cast’s internal and external design standards — helping our Marketing, Revenue, Editorial, Membership, and local city teams show up with a clear, cohesive, polished brand across every touchpoint. The ideal candidate is a strong, fast, strategic designer who can move fluidly between big-picture brand stewardship and hands-on execution. They should be able to: - Design a high-impact media kit - Build a seller-facing one-pager - Create campaign marketing assets - Concept membership campaign themes - Refine design templates for local teams - Ensure every piece of creative ladders up to a consistent City Cast story This person will also manage the design request process, serve as the final approver for branded materials, and oversee a Production Designer and a small bench of freelance or contract designers when additional executional support is needed. They will also work to evolve the brand, connect to messaging, and help us stay on top of emerging trends. Qualifications - 6+ years of professional design experience, ideally with experience in brand systems, marketing design, sales collateral, media, publishing, or mission-driven consumer brands. - A strong portfolio showing excellent taste, visual storytelling, typography, layout, brand consistency, and multi-channel design execution. - Experience creating sales enablement, pitch decks, GTM, media kits, or partner-facing materials. - Strong understanding of how design supports business goals, including audience growth, revenue, brand trust, and partner storytelling. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate design and brand goals to non-design stakeholders, and give clear feedback to contractors and collaborators. - Experience working with brand systems and adapting creative across multiple formats, markets, or sub-brands. - Ability to move quickly without sacrificing clarity, quality, or consistency. - Confidence serving as a brand gatekeeper while remaining collaborative, flexible, and solutions-oriented. - Experience managing design workflows, request systems, templates, and asset libraries. - Comfort working across tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Google Slides, and template-based workflows. - Good judgment, diplomacy, and the ability to push back thoughtfully when priorities, scope, or timelines need clarification. Requirements - Own and uphold City Cast’s visual brand standards across national, local, editorial, marketing, membership, revenue, event, and digital channels. - Serve as the final design approver for materials that represent City Cast externally or across multiple markets, in line with leadership-set brand guidelines. - Ensure City Cast shows up consistently across all audience and partner touchpoints while still allowing for local personality and flexibility. - Translate City Cast’s brand strategy into clear, usable design systems, templates, and creative guidance. - Partner with leadership and City Cast contractors to evolve visual identity as the company grows. - Own the design and ongoing maintenance of City Cast’s sales materials, including media kits, pitch decks, one-pagers, sponsorship materials, GTM collateral, case studies, and partner-facing presentations. - Help sellers tell a clearer, more compelling City Cast story to advertisers, sponsors, and potential partners. - Create scalable sales enablement materials that make it easier for the Revenue team to package, pitch, and sell City Cast’s products. - Collaborate with Revenue, Marketing, and leadership to turn audience insights, campaign concepts, and sponsorship opportunities into polished, externally facing materials. - Build materials that connect City Cast’s audience, local credibility, and product offerings into a cohesive partner narrative. - Under the leadership of the Chief Creative Officer and Director of Marketing, guide and set the vision of marketing campaigns across email, social, web, events, membership, paid media, video, swag, and partner channels. - Create campaign toolkits that can be adapted across multiple cities while maintaining brand consistency. - Support tentpole campaigns, audience growth initiatives, membership pushes, live events, and local market activations. - Move quickly from concept to execution while maintaining strong design judgment and quality control. - Partner with Marketing and Editorial teams to ensure campaigns feel cohesive across channels. - Guide the production of reusable templates, toolkits, and design systems for internal teams. - Create self-serve systems that allow local teams to execute common design needs without compromising brand quality. - Own the intake, prioritization, and workflow for design requests across departments. - Help clarify project scope, timelines, and deliverables with non-design stakeholders. - Identify when work should be handled directly, delegated to a contractor, or converted into a repeatable template. - Manage a small bench of freelance or contract designers as needed. - Scope projects clearly for contractors and ensure work meets City Cast’s brand standards. - Review, revise, and approve contractor work before sharing it with internal or external stakeholders. - Balance speed, quality, and capacity across multiple competing requests. Benefits - This position is full-time and remote, with excellent benefits. - The salary range is $95,000-$110,000 depending on experience. Company Description City Cast is a network of one-of-a-kind, daily local news podcasts in cities around the country, accompanied by a daily email newsletter and website that keeps you in the know about what’s happening in your community. Currently available in Chicago, DC, Denver, Las Vegas, Madison, Nashville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Salt Lake, Seattle, and Twin Cities, City Cast is the smartest, easiest way to connect with the place you live and love. City Cast is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity, which involves attracting talented people from diverse backgrounds and traditions. We encourage everyone to apply.

Role Description City Cast is recruiting creative, editorially minded producers to provide podcast production and newsletter writing support to our daily podcast teams on an on-call basis. We’re seeking skilled freelance podcast producers with writing experience and relatively flexible schedules. As an on-call producer, you would be contacted when we need coverage for one of our city teams, typically due to a staffing gap. Depending on network needs, assignments can range from one week to three months. Key Responsibilities - Help city teams produce smart and compelling editorial content for their podcast and newsletter, and social media accounts. - Find compelling and timely pitches for the daily podcast, social, and newsletter content. - Write the daily newsletter on assigned days with voice, humor, clarity, and relevance. - Prep for podcast conversations with the host and Executive Producer. - Edit episodes using Descript. - Produce ads to be included in podcast episodes. Qualifications - 3+ years of experience creating and/or editing editorial content. - Experience working in a deadline-driven editorial environment. - Excellent writing skills with a clear, engaging voice. - Experience with Descript or the willingness to learn. - Highly organized, with the ability to juggle multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment. - Experience making and editing videos for social is a plus. Requirements - To be considered for this role, you must be located and authorized to work within the United States. Benefits - This is a contract (1099) position with flexible hours. - Compensation will be based on an hourly rate ranging from $34-$45, based on experience and location. - As a contractor, you will not be eligible for company benefits (health insurance, paid time off, etc). - Work will be remote. Company Description City Cast is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity, which involves attracting talented people from diverse backgrounds and traditions. We encourage everyone to apply. City Cast is an affiliate of Graham Holdings.

Role Description City Cast is hiring a Subscription Growth Manager to drive the next phase of City Cast DC. We’re launching premium subscriber content to accompany our free daily podcast and newsletter. We need a smart, creative, data-driven person to build the user journey from conversion to onboarding to retention. This person will collaborate with the City Cast DC content and editorial team, City Cast’s product and operations team, and will report to the City Cast DC General Manager. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who wants to help turn our DC newsroom into a thriving subscription business. You'll have a real say in what City Cast DC's subscription product looks like, and you'll see the results of your work directly in the community you serve. This role will work almost exclusively with City Cast DC to start, but has potential to bring expertise and impact across the network. Application Due: July 7, 2026 What You’ll Do - Own acquisition and subscriber journey - Define the user journey to drive paid subscription conversion onsite and via email. - Help shape the structure and packaging of City Cast DC's subscription tiers and value proposition - Develop robust lifecycle communications including welcome, retention, and winback series - Partner with the City Cast membership manager to develop and run ad hoc membership campaigns across email, website, social and podcast messaging - Partner with editorial and audience teams to promote subscriber benefits such as original paywalled content, member events, swag, etc. - Write or closely direct copy for all acquisition touchpoints including website, newsletter in-podcast CTAs - Track and report on core subscription metrics: conversion rate, churn rate, LTV, and net subscriber growth - Translate data into clear recommendations and share findings with key stakeholders - Stay current on industry best practices around personalization, segmentation, and platform capabilities. Qualifications - This is both a strategic and operational role. You have a builder mentality — you’re comfortable owning subscriber growth strategy and operationalizing it. - 2-5 years of experience in a consumer subscription business, with a very strong preference for media experience. - You should have worked on growth or lifecycle marketing, conversion-rate optimization or product marketing. - Solid grasp of subscription funnel economics — you know what moves conversion and retention rates and why. - Familiar with membership and CRM tools. - A strong, clear writer who can match a brand voice and craft copy that converts. - Data-informed mindset — able to interpret metrics and apply insights. - Able to manage multiple projects in a fast-moving environment. - Genuine enthusiasm for local journalism and the communities it serves. Benefits - This position is full-time and remote, with excellent benefits. - Candidates based in the D.C. area are strongly preferred so they can collaborate closely with our local team. - The salary range is $80,000-$100,000, depending on experience. Company Description City Cast is a network of daily local news podcasts, email newsletters, and social channels that keep you in the know about what's happening in your city. Currently available in Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, DC, Philly, Portland, Madison, Nashville, Austin, Seattle and the Twin Cities. City Cast is the smartest, easiest way to connect with the place you live and love. City Cast is an affiliate of Graham Holdings.

Role Description City Cast is a national network of local podcasts, newsletters, and social channels dedicated to helping people fall in love with the cities they call home. We're hiring a Vice President of Sales to own advertising and sponsorship revenue growth across the City Cast network. This leader will partner with the Chief Commercial Officer on strategy and own its execution end-to-end. - Own the number. Deliver and exceed annual advertising and sponsorship revenue across City Cast’s multi-platform network. - Own the sales process end-to-end. Run a disciplined motion from prospecting through close to renewal: pipeline, deal review, pricing, negotiation, and handoff. - Lead from the front. Bring an active network of advertiser and agency relationships and use it. - Translate strategy into execution across local, regional, and national. - Lead, coach, and elevate the team through hands-on coaching, mentorship, and clear expectations. - Drive forecasting and budgeting rigor. Own weekly pacing, monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budgeting, and pipeline health. - Operationalize the sales playbook. Refine the packaging, pricing, pitch narrative, and collateral that wins business. - Partner across the org to level up what we sell. - Own key relationships. Lead executive-level relationships with priority advertisers, holding companies, and agency partners. - Read the market and modernize the org. Track competitive activity and category trends. - Show up in our markets. Travel to City Cast markets throughout the year to build relationships with local sellers and partners. Qualifications - 10+ years of digital media sales experience with a proven track record of revenue growth. - 5+ years of sales management experience, including managing teams remotely across multiple geographies. - Multi-market or network sales experience. - Audio, podcast, and/or video sales experience. - Demonstrated success operationalizing go-to-market strategies. - A storyteller's instinct. - Strong forecasting and budgeting discipline. - An early adopter of AI in sales work. - A developer of top talent. - A hands-on operator with an active network. - Entrepreneurial, accountable, and results-driven. Requirements - The starting base salary for this role is $140,000–$160,000, dependent on factors including location, experience, and skills. - Total compensation includes a competitive performance-based bonus tied to revenue outcomes. - This is a remote position with ~20% travel. Benefits - Full benefits package, including a pension. Company Description City Cast is a network of one-of-a-kind, daily local news podcasts in cities around the country, accompanied by daily email newsletters, social channels, and websites that keep you in the know about what’s happening in your community.

City Cast DC, Editor Hybrid District of Columbia Full time Washington, District of Columbia, United States Job Description: City Cast DC is seeking an experienced, driven editor to edit and support a growing team of local reporters across multiple beats and platforms. Reporting to the Managing Editor, this editor will serve as a deputy, helping to manage day-to-day editing and coverage strategy. The ideal candidate is news-driven, passionate about driving distinct coverage, and adept at understanding how stories can be translated across articles, newsletters, podcasts and social. They are also a strong communicator and manager who believes in front-end editing, giving constructive feedback, and helping reporters grow their skills. The editor will be working closely with the entire team to expand City Cast DC’s newsroom, so an enthusiasm for building from the ground up is a must. Application Due: Friday May 29 What You’ll Do - Edit a team of reporters, providing clear guidance, feedback, and support on a daily basis - Review, refine, and approve story pitches, helping reporters sharpen angles, identify gaps, and prioritize coverage - Edit newsletters and other written reporting for clarity, structure, voice, and accuracy, ensuring work meets City Cast DC’s editorial standards. - Collaborate with the podcast and social teams to ensure reported stories translate cleanly across platforms - Use audience metrics and reader feedback to inform coverage decisions and sharpen our approach over time - Fact-check reporting and oversee accuracy and ensure fairness throughout the editing process. - Help manage editorial workflows, deadlines, and publishing schedules to keep the newsroom running smoothly. - Provide coaching and mentorship to help reporters grow as writers, reporters, and public-facing journalists. What You Bring - 2-3+ years editing and managing reporters in a local or regional news environment. - Strong editorial judgment and a deep understanding of how to shape and elevate reported stories. - A keen eye for detail and a commitment to accuracy, fairness, and clear fact-checking processes. - Experience working in fast-paced, deadline-driven newsrooms. - Excellent communication and people-management skills, with the ability to give constructive feedback and set clear expectations. - An understanding of cross-platform storytelling, including how written reporting translates to audio and social media. - Familiarity with audience metrics and how to apply them to editorial decision-making is a plus - A genuine interest in DC and its communities, along with an appreciation for the city’s complexity and nuance. Benefits The Editor will report to the Managing Editor of City Cast DC. This position is full-time, with excellent benefits. The annual salary range is $80,000-$125,000 depending on experience. You must be local, though work will be primarily remote. City Cast is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity, which involves attracting talented people from diverse backgrounds and traditions. Read about our mission and core values here. We encourage everyone to apply.

Role Description City Cast is hiring a Lifecycle Marketing Strategist to drive the next phase of City Cast DC’s member growth, engagement, and retention. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who wants to build a lifecycle program in a collaborative, fast-moving environment. - Own mid-funnel and bottom-funnel lifecycle strategy: trial-to-paid conversion, renewal, churn prevention, and win-back. - Build automated, behaviorally-driven lifecycle journeys and ad hoc campaigns across email, website, podcast, and social. - Identify opportunities for AI integration across lifecycle workflows. - Help shape the structure and packaging of City Cast DC's subscription tiers and value proposition. - Partner with editorial and audience teams to promote subscriber benefits like original paywalled content, member events, swag, etc. - Maintain clear project plans to translate to the larger team. - Identify key audience segments to track and target. - Own day-to-day CRM and ESP execution — segmentation, sends, automation builds, and list health. - Write or closely direct copy for all lifecycle touchpoints: emails, landing pages, in-podcast CTAs, and renewal reminders. - Track and report on core subscription metrics: conversion rate, churn rate, LTV, and net subscriber growth. - Translate data into clear recommendations and share findings with key stakeholders. Qualifications - 2–5 years in lifecycle marketing, CRM, retention, or growth — ideally at a media, subscription, or DTC company. - Hands-on experience building automated email journeys and lifecycle campaigns in an ESP (Sailthru, Beehiv or equivalent). - Familiarity with membership tools like SupportingCast, Memberful, Piano, or Monetization OS. - Solid grasp of subscription funnel economics — you know what moves conversion and retention rates and why. - A strong, clear writer who can match a brand voice and craft copy that converts. - Comfortable turning data into action. - A builder mentality. - Able to manage multiple projects in a fast-moving environment. - Genuine enthusiasm for local journalism and the communities it serves. - Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Bonus Points For - Experience in podcast, audio, or newsletter media. - Experience developing or packaging editorial products for paid audiences. - Experience using AI tools to speed up copy testing, segmentation, or personalization workflows. Benefits - This position is full-time and remote, with excellent benefits. - Salary range is $65,000-$80,000, depending on experience.

Pitch and develop engaging content for podcasts, newsletters, and social media. Contribute on-mic with local expertise while managing production tasks and editing episodes to enhance the daily local media brand's narrative.

City Cast DC, Data Reporter Hybrid District of Columbia Full time Washington, District of Columbia, United States Description City Cast DC is hiring an ambitious, creative Data Reporter to uncover surprising truths about life in the nation’s capital. This role is the first of its kind at City Cast — our ideal candidate will help us shape this role and the future of data journalism at City Cast DC. In this role, you’ll dig into publicly available datasets across DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia to surface hidden patterns, explain complicated systems, and create practical resources for our audience. You might analyze crime trends, housing data, 311 complaints, traffic patterns, restaurant inspections, budgets, property tax records, or election returns and turn them into clear reporting, interactive databases, searchable tools, or visual explainers. You will likely use AI-powered tools, including platforms like Claude Code, to sift through large data sources, identify insights, build workflows, and help prototype user-facing databases or interfaces. In addition to publishing data-driven stories and graphics in our newsletters, you’ll regularly discuss your findings on the City Cast DC podcast and create social content that translates charts, findings, and numbers in compelling, digestible ways. You’ll also partner with other beat reporters on any data-driven projects. You’ll have the autonomy to pursue meaningful work, backed by a staff that values usefulness, delight, and accountability. The ideal candidate is collaborative and intellectually curious — someone who sees spreadsheets as story prompts and believes great local journalism can be both rigorous and joyful. What You’ll Do - Identify and analyze publicly available data from DC and surrounding jurisdictions to uncover impactful stories and actionable insights. - Use AI tools and coding platforms (e.g., Claude Code or similar) to clean, analyze, and interrogate datasets, and to prototype user-facing interfaces. - Pitch, report, and write original data-driven stories that reflect what DC residents are talking about — and what they should be talking about next. - Build useful reader-facing tools — such as searchable databases, maps, explainers, or trackers — that make local systems more transparent and accessible. - Contribute regularly to the City Cast DC podcast, explaining findings in plain language while bringing personality and curiosity to the conversation. - Create visual and social assets that extend the reach of your reporting and make data engaging. - Help grow support for the City Cast DC Neighbors membership program, including pitching during campaigns. What You Bring - A deep curiosity about DC and an appreciation for the region’s complexity, politics, bureaucracy, and neighborhoods. - Experience working with data — including sourcing, cleaning, analyzing, and verifying datasets. Comfort using spreadsheets, basic coding tools, and AI-assisted data workflows. - Strong writing skills with a voice that is confident, human, and engaging and the ability to clearly explain dense or technical information. - Experience working in a deadline-driven editorial environment. - Enthusiasm for helping audiences understand systems that affect their daily lives — housing, schools, traffic, taxes, safety, and more. - A solutions-oriented mindset that sees journalism not just as storytelling, but as service. - Willingness to experiment as we build the future of City Cast DC Bonus but not required: - Experience building simple user interfaces or reader tools. - Familiarity with local government data and civic tech communities. - Comfort speaking on mic and contributing meaningfully to podcast conversations. Benefits The Data Reporter will report to the Managing Editor of City Cast DC. This position is full-time, with excellent benefits. The annual salary range is $80,000–$110,000 depending on experience. You must be local, though work will be primarily remote.

City Cast is seeking a post-production staffer to support our City Cast teams by taking care of the post-production work for daily podcasts, newsletters, and other bi-weekly newsletters. The role is remote and contract with the possibility of it becoming a salaried, full-time position. Work hours are from 9:30 -5:30 PST.  We are looking for a producer with extensive audio and video skills, who is detail-oriented, already experienced with or willing to learn newsletter building in a CMS, and an eager collaborator. The ideal candidate has a sharp ear and eye for quality and thrives in deadline-driven environments. Deadline to apply: Friday, April 24 Key Responsibilities - Complete daily post-production duties for two City Cast cities in two different time zones. - Edit podcast episodes for video and audio using Adobe Premiere and Autopod.  - Repair audio by running audio files through iZotope RX to address reverb, plosives, and background noise as needed. - Provide feedback and flag issues to city teams, such as overly choppy Descript edits or poor audio quality from remote recordings.  - Edit podcast ads for video and audio using Descript, Premiere, and Izotope, as needed. Potentially edit video ads for social media down the line.  - Prepare previously aired episodes to be re-run using Audition - Work within our CMS and ESP to build and schedule newsletters and articles, ensuring that the copy (written and edited by others) and photos are presented clearly for the reader. - Create episode thumbnails in Canva, including sourcing screenshots from Riverside, removing backgrounds, and building out the graphic - Schedule episodes to our hosting/distribution platform and video episodes to the city teams’ YouTube pages.

The Role City Cast is looking for a sharp, voicey writer to create a new weekly newsletter that complements our existing daily City Cast Twin Cities newsletter and podcast. While our daily products cover Twin Cities's news and happenings, this weekly newsletter will go deeper on a specific topic that Twin Citizens are passionate about. City Cast produces daily local news podcasts and newsletters in cities across the country. Our mission is to help people fall more in love with their cities through smart, engaging journalism that makes local news feel personal and accessible. Deadline to apply: April 17, 2026 What You'll Do - Write a weekly City Cast Twin Cities newsletter with a clear point of view and a strong, engaging voice. - Research and report on your beat, developing sources and staying ahead of trends. - Write thoughtful, upbeat copy featuring good news, local tips, or special recommendations that leave readers feeling informed and inspired. - Collaborate closely with the City Cast Twin Cities team and work with the Executive Producer through the editing process to sharpen structure, clarity, and impact. - Take photos and source photos to craft a more visually interesting newsletter. - Meet consistent deadlines and maintain high editorial standards. - Bonus: Discuss your reporting and recommendations on the City Cast Twin Cities podcast when appropriate.