AI-Driven Senior Audience & Engagement Producer

Hearst Connecticut Media Group; Norwalk (CT); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, disability and

life insurance

401(k) with company matching

Three weeks vacation annually

Mobile phone reimbursement

Paid training opportunities

Flexible spending account

Parental leave and support

Employee assistance program

Health savings account

Job summary

Hearst Connecticut Media Group in Norwalk, CT is seeking a Senior Audience Producer to guide reporting with editors, analyze metrics, and optimize content across platforms. The role focuses on engaging readers, driving subscriptions, and growing return visits through collaboration with topic teams such as data, politics, education, business and sports.

The ideal candidate has strong editorial judgment, experience in deadline-driven news, and the ability to lead cross-department projects while

Qualifications

• Experience in a deadline-driven news environment.
• Ability to optimize stories for site, social, newsletters and search.
• Experience editing short and mid-form video, photos and audio in tools like Canva, Photoshop or Premiere.
• Strong writing, editing and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with ability to juggle multiple tasks.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule for breaking news and special content opportunities, including nights and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with editors, reporters, photographers and other audience team members to ensure our journalism engages, retains and converts local readers into subscribers
• Demonstrates a high comfort level with analyzing and interpreting metrics and explaining what they mean to inform coverage decisions over the short- and long-term
• Uses topic-area knowledge to identify story ideas and help deliver recurring content series and annual special projects
• Communicates effectively across departments during breaking and planned news events to alert users to key story developments across platforms

Skills

Editorial judgment

Story optimization

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Deadline-driven

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in journalism, English, communications or related field

Tools

Canva

Photoshop

Premiere

Job description

Hearst Connecticut Media Group in Norwalk, CT is seeking a Senior Audience Producer to guide reporting with editors, analyze metrics, and optimize content across platforms. The role focuses on engaging readers, driving subscriptions, and growing return visits through collaboration with topic teams such as data, politics, education, business and sports.

The ideal candidate has strong editorial judgment, experience in deadline-driven news, and the ability to lead cross-department projects while