Jobs at NPR

Manages music rights clearances and licensing for NPR Music productions, including Tiny Desk. Responsibilities include securing publishing, master, synchronization, performance, and appearance rights; managing digital platform claims; coordinating royalties; administering agreements; designing clearance workflows; and partnering with legal counsel, production teams, artists, labels, and external rights holders.

Leads NPR’s executive talent strategy for journalists, hosts, commentators, and creative contributors. Responsibilities include talent relationship management, scouting and pipeline development, contract negotiation, career stewardship, cross-functional mediation, editorial and mission alignment, audience trend analysis, and diversity initiatives. The role partners with Content, People, Legal, Marketing, Operations, and member stations to attract and retain high-impact multimedia talent.

Produces and experiments with short-form social video for Planet Money and The Indicator, adapting audio journalism for visual platforms. Collaborates with editors, producers, hosts, and NPR social teams; shoots, edits, publishes, and evaluates video using audience data. Trains audio producers in video tools, storytelling, and analytics, while developing sustainable workflows, social strategy, captions, and supporting copy. The role requires editorial judgment, ethical compliance, cross-platform expertise, project management, and collaboration in a hybrid New York City setting.

Owns advanced mobile and web analytics for the NPR App, including complex SQL analysis of raw BigQuery, GA4, and Firebase data. Leads A/B and multivariate experimentation, translates behavioral insights into product strategy, develops reporting and self-service tools, ensures data quality, and mentors colleagues and stakeholders on SQL, analytics, experimentation, and data governance.

The Insights Analyst will analyze large-scale digital event data using advanced SQL, implement and quality-check analytics tagging, automate reporting pipelines, build Looker dashboards, and troubleshoot data issues. The role supports product optimization across NPR’s app, website, and video platforms by translating audience behavior into actionable insights. Responsibilities also include measurement planning, documentation, data governance, and collaboration with product, engineering, editorial, and station stakeholders.

The Northeast Regional Editor coordinates coverage between NPR, regional hubs, and member stations; edits and fact-checks audio, digital, and broadcast content; leads breaking-news responses; integrates stories across shows and platforms; tracks regional news trends; mentors journalists; promotes inclusive sourcing; and manages freelancer agreements, commissions, payments, and newsroom workflows.

Own the roadmap and operationalization of NPR’s audience lifecycle and marketing technology platforms. Lead scalable audience activation, personalization, automation, newsletter infrastructure, CDP segmentation, measurement, AI-enabled workflows, governance, and internal enablement. Partner with Data, Editorial, Marketing, Design, Engineering, and Product teams to improve engagement, donation conversion, retention, and audience growth.

Develops NPR podcast, program, and product brands through visual identity systems, including logos, typography, color palettes, key art, guidelines, and social templates. Creates integrated marketing campaigns across digital, social, video, outdoor, and other channels; contributes big ideas, collaborates with copywriters and strategists, presents work to stakeholders, and ensures high-quality, consistent brand execution under tight deadlines.

Leads architecture for unified native mobile and cross-platform systems, scalable personalization and media delivery pipelines, distributed services, APIs, and client applications. Guides multi-team technology strategy, governance, security, privacy compliance, cost optimization, deployments, incident response, and code quality. Mentors engineers, conducts reviews, evaluates technologies, and contributes resilient production code across iOS, Android, cloud, CDN, and data systems.

Legal externs support NPR’s Office of the General Counsel by conducting legal research, preparing memoranda, contracts, and other documents, participating in client and regulatory meetings, observing proceedings, and attending legal training. The role spans commercial, nonprofit tax, governance, technology, intellectual property, regulatory, constitutional, employment, and labor matters. Applicants must be current law students and secure academic credit for fall or spring placements.

Legal externs assist senior counsel with copyright research, fair use determinations, audio and video content evaluations, permissions agreements, licensing assessments, and rights management. The role is a full-time, summer, for-credit or stipend-eligible opportunity for current second- or third-year law students with coursework and knowledge in copyright law and fair use.

Leads and develops a team of mobile software engineers building NPR applications. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, Agile delivery, technical planning, code and design reviews, workflow automation, production incident response, vendor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires prior hands-on mobile engineering experience, proficiency in native iOS or Android technologies, release infrastructure, Git, and Agile/Scrum practices.