Producer / Writer, New Shows

Job Description

Job summary
Wondery, an Amazon company, is a premium podcast studio known for character-driven, binge-worthy stories including Dr. Death, The Shrink Next Door, Even the Rich and Business Wars, and distribution of hit partner shows SmartLess, My Favorite Murder, and How I Built This. Wondery is behind seven of the ''Top 10 New Shows of 2021'', according to Podtrac, including #1 (The Apology Line) and #2 (Suspect). Forty shows from Wondery have hit #1 on Apple Podcasts including Harsh Reality and Operator. Many Wondery have been adapted for scripted television or streaming series, including Dr. Death on Peacock, The Shrink Next Door on Apple TV+, the upcoming WeCrashed on Apple TV+ and Joe vs Carole on Peacock. Wondery has gained critical acclaim and commercial success for its immersive approach to sonic, emotionally driven storytelling, which helps listeners to ''Feel the Story.'' The Wondery app offers a unique, personalized podcast listening experience with over 15,000 episodes, including access to its premium ad-free offering Wondery+. With Wondery+, fans experience early access, exclusive episodes, and ad-free listening.

Wondery is hiring a producer/writer for the New Shows team. You will play a key role in helping launch new shows and series in our growing always on slate, such as Even the Rich and Against the Odds, and develop new series from soup to nuts.

We are looking for a candidate who loves character-driven audio storytelling and understands how to convey complex information in a dramatic, accurate, and emotionally engaging way. You will work closely with the new shows team and external editors, hosts and sound designers to help create and produce a variety of story-based shows from kids content to fact-based single and dual voice multi-episode narratives. This role requires both a familiarity with long form narrative writing and structure, as well as hands on production experience in project organization, tracking schedules, and delivering on deadlines. You thrive in a fast paced creative environment and are self-directed but also enjoy collaboration and working with teams.

This role is flexible to be in either Los Angeles, CA and New York City, NY.

Key job responsibilities
• Work with EPs, Senior Producers and Production Team to launch new series
• Provide feedback on outlines, scripts, and mixes.
• Write narrative scenes for long form scripts for weekly episodes.
• Identify new sources of diverse writers, and voice talent
• Pitch new ideas
• Manage editorial workflow including folder organization, style and process guides, and schedule building and tracking to ensure timely receipt of assets for launch and ongoing production

A day in the life
A day in the life is varied for a producer on the new shows team. On the creative/editorial side you might work with the senior story editor on an outline or script for one of our single-voice narrative shows. You might write a trailer or participate in a pitch meeting or assist Senior Producer providing notes on a host VO session or sound design mix. On the producer side you might build out the folder system on google drive for a new show, create show contact sheets, or reach out to writers and editors on show deliverables.

About the team
The Wondery New Shows team is comprised of editors and producers who are passionate about telling compelling narrative stories. We are able to to pivot on a dime to problem solve a story issue or quickly craft a novel solution to hitting a deadline. We are always learning and growing and celebrate one another's accomplishments.

WONDERY is a premium podcast studio known for character-driven, binge-worthy series including Apology Line, Even the Rich, American Scandal, and Business Wars. Wondery's shows have gained critical acclaim and commercial success from an immersive approach to audio storytelling, which helps listeners to ''Feel the Story.'' An impressive 31 of Wondery's shows hit #1 on Apple Podcasts since 2017. Many Wondery series are being adapted for scripted television, including WeCrashed, The Shrink Next Door, and Dr. Death.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 3+ years experience as a producer/production manager or line producer
• 3+ years experience with budgeting, scheduling and cost reports

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• 3+ years writing or editing long form narrative stories (6,000+ words) in a fact-based medium
• 2+ years associate producing or producing in a deadline environment with proven organizational skills
• Experience working across narrative genre with basis in fact such as doc, feature mag, reality
• Audio writing experience
• Experience working in fast-paced creative deadline-driven environment
• Ability to pivot and problem solve

For LA postings, include: Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d2y20y-18-117-107-90-42 in your application.