Executive Vice President of Current Content

Daily Wire

Job Summary

Daily Wire is seeking an Executive Vice President of Current Content to lead the creative and strategic vision for episodic programming, including scripted series, unscripted formats, limited series, specials, and other serialized content. This role oversees the full development pipeline from concept through pre-production, ensuring all projects align with Daily Wire’s mission, brand, and commercial goals. This is a senior leadership role for a creative executive eager to shape the future of serialized storytelling.

Must Have

  • Lead creative and strategic vision for episodic content slate
  • Own long-range slate planning and portfolio balance
  • Provide senior creative leadership across all development activity
  • Partner with Production for project greenlight and pre-production
  • Drive audience growth, subscriber engagement, and retention
  • Build and maintain high-level industry relationships
  • Senior leadership experience in series development, production, or studio environments
  • Proven ability to identify, shape, and advance episodic projects
  • Exceptional storytelling judgment and expertise
  • Strong understanding of industry trends, audience behavior, and market dynamics
  • High level of financial literacy
  • Proven cross-functional leader with strong communication and relationship management skills
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, mission-driven, entrepreneurial environment
  • Collaborative, strategic executive with excellent interpersonal skills

Job Description

Daily Wire is seeking an Executive Vice President of Current Content to lead the creative and strategic vision for our episodic programming, including scripted series, unscripted formats, limited series, specials, and other serialized content. This role oversees the full development pipeline—from concept through pre-production—ensuring all projects align with Daily Wire’s mission, brand, and commercial goals. This is a senior leadership role for a creative executive eager to shape the future of serialized storytelling at Daily Wire.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Lead the creative and strategic vision for the company’s episodic content slate, spanning scripted series, unscripted formats, limited series, and multi-season franchises.
  • Own long-range slate planning and portfolio balance across original concepts, adaptations, and acquired formats aligned with brand, mission, and growth objectives.
  • Provide senior creative leadership across all development activity, overseeing scripts, pitches, series bibles, format design, showrunner collaboration, and series packaging.
  • Partner with Production to move projects from development through greenlight and into pre-production, ensuring creative, financial, and operational readiness.
  • Drive audience growth, subscriber engagement, and retention by aligning episodic programming with measurable performance and platform objectives.
  • Build and maintain high-level relationships with writers, showrunners, producers, talent, and studios, representing the company across the industry.

Experience & Requirements

  • Senior leadership experience in scripted and/or unscripted series development, production, or studio environments
  • Proven ability to identify, shape, and advance episodic projects from concept through greenlight
  • Exceptional storytelling judgment, with deep expertise in script evaluation, series structure, character development, season arcs, and format design
  • Strong understanding of industry trends, audience behavior, and market dynamics across episodic content
  • High level of financial literacy, including the ability to evaluate budgets, resource requirements, and slate economics
  • Proven cross-functional leader with strong communication and relationship management skills
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, mission-driven, entrepreneurial environment aligned with conservative media values
  • Collaborative, strategic executive with excellent interpersonal skills

Daily Wire provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Please Note: Daily Wire participates in E-Verify and performs background checks on all new hires. We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Thank you!

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7 Skills Required For This Role

Team Management Cross Functional Communication Leadership Talent Acquisition Game Texts Storytelling

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