Producer - Entertainment (Part Time)

Reduced Listening is an award-winning independent production company, specialising in acclaimed radio and podcasts about ideas and culture. We love working collaboratively, opening windows to new worlds for our audiences. Our clients include the BBC, Spotify, Audible, the Wellcome Trust, Factory International and The Southbank Centre.

We are looking for a culturally-aware creative Producer to work on a new weekly entertainment video podcast for a major broadcast platform. This is an opportunity to launch a new high-profile podcast with weekly cultural hot takes on pop culture and internet trends. We are looking for someone to be part of a growing team passionate about entertainment and to help create something distinctive that lives beyond the feed.

If you live and breathe pop culture, know exactly why a cultural topic is trending online before it hits the mainstream, and love spotting what cuts through the noise on social media, RSS and YouTube, then this role is for you.

You will be working directly with the hosts, crafting weekly content strategies, and ensuring our technical output matches our editorial ambition.

Key Responsibilities:

Editorial & Content Strategy

• Host Collaboration: working closely with our hosts to curate, debate, and select essential weekly pop culture and online/trending cultural talking points.

• Trend Forecasting: monitoring social media trends and podcast landscapes to ensure the show remains ahead of the curve.

• Research & Prep: Produce concise, high-impact "topic packs" and briefing notes to prepare hosts thoroughly for recording sessions.

• Creative Input: Contribute ideas for format tweaks, special segments, and audience engagement strategies.

Talent Management & Directing

• Talent Liaison: Work with the Executive Producer to be a trusted point of contact for hosts.

• In-Studio directing: share in-studio directing to confidently guide and direct hosts during recording sessions to acheive the best energy, pacing, and comedic timing.

Client Management

• To run day-to-day comms with client/commissioner.

Post-Production & Technical Execution

• Video Editing: Ingest studio material and set up the longform sequences. Deliver first cut of multi-cam video edits using Adobe Premiere Pro and share with the Digital Producer.

• Social media clips: Ability to support Digital Producer with editing social media clips to a high standard.

• Quality Assurance: Ensure all outputs meet broadcast-ready standards for both full-length episodes and social media clips.

About You (Skills & Experience):

Essential Criteria:

• The Ultimate Culture Fanatic: You have an encyclopaedic knowledge of internet culture, celebrity news, TV/Film, music, and broader cultural conversations.

• You are a podcast and content fan and are always up to date with the latest content trends.

• Proven experience in shaping content, scripting, or producing for entertainment media.

• You must be proficient on Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition.

• Demonstrable industry and talent-management experience.

• Understanding of BBC Editorial Policy and guidelines.

Beneficial skills:

• Experience making content for the BBC is helpful.

• Additional digital workflow tools including Frame IO and After Effects would be good.

• Ability to analyse data and turn insights into action.

• Sharp writing skills for social copy and metadata.

• A natural feel for audience behaviour, trends and digital storytelling.

• A team player with interest in elevating the work of our company and contributing to ideas.

• Good working technical knowledge including media management and the ability to troubleshoot problems.

How to Apply:

We are committed to building a media industry which represents the world we live in and are actively working to create a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all sections of society. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements, within the context of this being a London-based in-person role, working between studio in central London and in our office in Dalston.

Working pattern: The role is 3-4 days a week, spread routinely across the week.

Salary: £36,000 - £41, 000 pro rata’d and depending on experience.

Benefits include: 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays (pro-rata'd), pension contributions, parental leave, training and development opportunities, being part of an exciting and talented team who are committed to listening better and making the world a fairer place.

Deadline for applications is 23:59 on Wednesday 1st July, 2026

Shortlisted candidates will be notified the week commencing 13th July when interviews will take place.

You must be available to start work from the middle-end of July 2026.

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If you have any problems in applying for this role or require assistance to do so please contact: jobs@reducedlistening.co.uk