Producer, Audio/Video

POLITICO is seeking an experienced Audio/Video Producer to launch and grow a news show. This full-time role in Brussels involves overseeing recording sessions, making creative decisions, ensuring high quality, and editing final audio and video products. The producer will collaborate with editorial teams, manage multiplatform distribution, and monitor performance. The role requires strong editing skills, journalistic judgment, and a deep interest in European politics, often involving work outside standard hours to meet production schedules for a timely and compelling daily product.

Must Have

• Oversee recording sessions, including technical aspects
• Coach talent and guide editorial direction
• Collaborate with host and editorial colleagues to identify high-impact guests and relevant conversation themes
• Edit audio and video products to produce clean, final cuts ready for publication
• Partner with audience, editorial, and social media teams on distribution and publishing
• Monitor episode performance metrics and utilize data to optimize future episodes
• Work outside of normal business hours (evenings or early mornings) to accommodate production schedule

Perks & Benefits

• Country-specific, competitive compensation and benefits packages (pension, healthcare, training opportunities)
• Flexible work options including working from abroad
• Partial coverage of public transportation costs

Producer, Audio/Video

POLITICO is seeking a skilled producer to lead the launch and growth of a news show.

In this role, you’ll oversee recording sessions, make creative decisions to shape each episode, ensure high quality and accuracy, and edit the final audio and video products to completion. Our shows are multiplatform products, with audio (podcast), video, and social media elements. You’ll be a key player in making sure we deliver a timely and compelling product each day.

Given the nature of news shows, this role will require work outside of normal business hours — evenings or early mornings — to accommodate our production schedule.

The position is a full-time role based in Brussels.

Who You Are:

• An experienced producer with a track record of working on video and audio shows.
• A skilled editor of audio and video — able to produce tight and polished edits on a deadline.
• A keen reader of news and politics with a deep interest in European politics, particularly the EU.
• Experienced in multiplatform distribution, finding production efficiencies between video and audio, and producing for different channels and audiences.
• A team player, great at giving and taking notes and working across different teams of people.

What You’ll Do:

• Oversee the recording of an audio/video show — including technical aspects and helping coach talent and guide editorial direction.
• Collaborate with host and editorial colleagues to identify high-impact guests and relevant conversation themes.
• Edit an audio and video product — producing clean, final cuts of an audio show (podcast) and video, ready for publication.
• Partner with audience, editorial, social media teams on distribution and publishing.
• Monitor episode performance metrics and utilize data to optimize future episodes.

What You’ll Need:

• 3+ years’ experience in podcast and video production, with significant experience in news, politics, or policy.
• Sharp editorial judgement and storytelling instincts grounded in journalistic standards.
• Strong audio and video editing skills, including strong familiarity with Premiere and Audition (or equivalent).
• Excellent communication skills for coordinating with leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Familiarity with audience analytics and platform metrics to guide future content.

We value our people:

Our benefits package is built for you, and includes:

• Our teams benefit from country-specific, competitive compensation and benefits packages—including pension, healthcare, training opportunities and more.
• With a multinational team, strong ties to EU institutions, and flexible work options including working from abroad, we offer our employees an environment that supports both professional and personal development.
• Transportation: Say goodbye to traffic jams and hello to smooth commutes. POLITICO partially covers public transportation costs.

Let’s keep in touch. You can view our list of open positions here. We hope to see your application soon!

About Us:

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer.

Location: Brussels

Employment level: Full-time

Type of role: Experienced

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