Senior Podcast Showrunner/Producer
Job description
The Showrunner takes over the video-first media show Process in Progress end to end, deciding what gets made, running recordings, and owning audience growth numbers. The role is for a show-builder who has already grown a recurring format and will set craft standards across the slate.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- Own the show's audience outcome: people per month and engaged share, measured in named platform fields (Apple Listeners, Spotify Audience, YouTube unique viewers)
- Work against floor, target, and stretch goals, and change the approach whenever the show falls below floor
- Follow the audience wherever it accumulates; if growth lives in vertical social rather than long-form YouTube, the measurement fields change (IG Reach, Shorts viewers) and ownership stays with you
- Share one bridge metric with distribution: followers and subscribers converted per episode across platforms; create the moments that convert while distribution ships and places them
- Conduct guest research and dossiers
- Write episode scripts with the arc, key questions, and clip moments planned in advance
- Write briefs for guests and co-hosts
- Run every recording as the showrunner, creating clip moments in the room
- Develop a packaging hypothesis for every episode (title, thumbnail, first 60 seconds, structure) and review what worked
- Use clips as the main acquisition channel
- Read retention curves, watch-through, and first-7-day performance, and carry conclusions into the next episode
- Kill formats that fail to move the numbers two episodes in a row
- Keep a pipeline of 8+ confirmed guests who are either broadly known (around 100K+ following) or known in the industry (10-15K+)
- Bring institutional representatives (clinics, associations, researchers, regulators) into every second episode
- Arrange audience cross-sharing with other shows
- Log every contact in the shared partner tracker with a next step
- Hand clips, quotes, talking points, and per-platform titles to distribution at least 2 days before release
- Build the production and packaging playbook that both shows run on, together with the Head of Media
What we're looking for
- A show you grew, with proof: its name, the starting and ending numbers, and what you changed
- 3+ years producing recurring talk, interview, or documentary formats across platforms, including social video
- Fluency in packaging, CTR, retention curves, and clips as acquisition; read YouTube, Spotify, and Apple analytics yourself
- Experience briefing external editors and accepting or rejecting a cut
- Daily, systematic use of AI across the production loop, from guest research to clip selection and retention analysis
Nice to have
- Work in health, science, medicine, or finance
- A show launched from zero
Your team
States of Mind
Video-first media at the intersection of mental health and psychedelics, running two shows: Human Journeys and Process in Progress.
How to get hired
- 1Finalists complete a paid test assignment first
- 2After that, start either full-time from day one, or with a fractional first quarter (2-3 days per week, one show) that converts to full-time as the slate grows
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About Pink Elephant
Pink Elephant is a venture builder and investment company developing an ecosystem of progressive mental health solutions. Its portfolio combines media, diagnostics, e-commerce, telemedicine, and technology, focusing on Europe and other advanced markets.
Mission
Developing an ecosystem of progressive mental health solutions to make evidence-based therapies and holistic practices more accessible.
Key facts
- Mental health solutions / venture building
- Portfolio combines media, diagnostics, e-commerce, telemedicine, and technology
- Focuses on Europe and other advanced markets
- States of Mind runs two shows: Human Journeys and Process in Progress
What they value
- Rigorous about evidence
- Honest about failures and costs
- Human about the people living through it and building it