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# Managing Producer, Vertical Video at Business Insider

- **Company:** Business Insider
- **Location:** New York New York, United States
- **Posted:** 2026-07-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://www.businessinsider.com/work-at-business-insider?gh_jid=6110759004

## Job description

Business Insider is looking for a Managing Producer to lead our Vertical Video team and help shape the future of short-form strategy across our site and social platforms.

This is a leadership role for an experienced editorial producer who thrives in a fast-paced newsroom, has exceptional editorial judgment, and is passionate about crafting compelling video journalism. You'll oversee day-to-day operations while partnering across the newsroom to transform Business Insider's reporting into engaging short-form storytelling.

The Vertical Video team produces explainers, breaking news coverage, and original hosted series spanning business, technology, innovation, and global markets. As Managing Producer, you'll serve as the connective thread between video editors and producers, video leadership, and reporters and editors across the newsroom.

Reporting to our Deputy Executive Producer, you'll lead a team of producers, set editorial priorities, and help define the long-term strategy for Business Insider's vertical video operation. You'll combine strong people management with sharp editorial instincts, using audience insights and performance data to evolve our storytelling, scale successful franchises, and identify new opportunities across emerging platforms and formats.

This is a hybrid position based in New York, with an in-office expectation of three days per week.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of vertical video producers, fostering a collaborative, high-performing newsroom culture.
- Oversee daily vertical video coverage, managing workflows, assigning stories, and setting publishing priorities.
- Partner with reporters and editors across the newsroom to translate original reporting into compelling short-form video.
- Coach reporters, producers, and hosts on vertical-native storytelling, scripting, and on-camera presentation.
- Review edits, headlines, and captions to ensure editorial accuracy, quality, and adherence to Business Insider's journalistic standards.
- Analyze audience and platform performance data to refine editorial priorities and publishing strategies, and relay findings to leadership.
- Develop and scale repeatable vertical video franchises that deepen audience engagement and grow Business Insider's presence across social platforms.
- Help identify emerging storytelling tools, production techniques, and platform opportunities that keep Business Insider at the forefront of digital video journalism.
- Lead experimentation with AI-powered production tools and workflows, identifying opportunities to responsibly accelerate video creation, streamline operations, and expand storytelling capabilities.

Desired Skills & Experience:

- Significant experience producing and managing short-form video in a digital news or media organization.
- Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and developing editorial teams.
- Deep understanding of vertical video storytelling and major social media platforms.
- Excellent editorial judgment and a commitment to the highest journalistic standards.
- Strong understanding of audience development and using performance data to inform editorial decisions.
- Experience evaluating and implementing AI-powered workflows that improve efficiency, scale content production, or enhance creative storytelling in a newsroom or digital media environment.
- Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, solutions-oriented approach to leadership.
- A passion for innovation in digital storytelling, including emerging AI tools, production workflows, and new content formats.

Salary & Benefits

The salary range for this position is $80,000- $85,000. Business Insider offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage; paid time off; retirement benefits; and additional programs that support employee well-being and professional growth.

Business Insider is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and, when making employment decisions, does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality or national origin, religion, disability, familial status, and military or veteran status. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented groups to apply.

Business Insider 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](https://www.axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why) 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.](https://www.axelspringer.com/en/)

Are you passionate about this opportunity, but worried that you don’t have 100% of the experience we’re looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Business Insider.

## About Business Insider

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Business Insider is a leading global news brand that delivers award-winning journalism covering business, technology, and innovation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of Axel Springer SE)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, USA (with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, London, and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Kevin Ryan, Dwight Merriman, and Henry Blodget

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Digital Media & News Publishing
- **Target customers**: B2C (next-generation leaders, digital generation, professionals interested in business, tech, and innovation)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To delight readers by connecting the digital generation with the news, ideas, technologies, and trends that are changing our world. The company’s journalism helps millions of readers get more out of their careers and lives.

## Products & Services
- **Business Insider**: The flagship brand covering business, technology, and innovation. Known for breaking stories on Facebook’s founding, demystifying the 2008 financial crisis, and profiling tech visionaries. Coined terms like “quiet quitting.”
- **Tech Insider**: A sub-brand reaching people who embrace innovation.
- **Insider**: A broader lifestyle-focused brand for those who believe life is an adventure.
- **Newsletters**: Including *Business Insider Today*, *Defense Flash*, and *Tech Memo*.
- **Audio Briefing**: An AI-powered audio feature delivering news.
- **Social & Video**: Extensive video team and distribution across YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, and Facebook.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private subsidiary). Axel Springer SE is a family-owned, multi-billion euro media company.
- **Key Metric**: Reaches over 90 million people each month globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company is Axel Springer SE (a family-owned transatlantic media powerhouse headquartered in Berlin and New York). The company is the most read business news publication in the world.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded from a single blog (Silicon Alley Insider, 2007) to a global news organization with journalists from New York to Singapore. Launched Tech Insider, Business Insider UK, and the broader Insider brand. Won its first Pulitzer Prize. Continues to grow its footprint with offices in major cities.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Award-winning journalism**: Won a Pulitzer Prize; stories have changed government policies, gotten executives fired, launched investigations, and reopened closed cases.
- **Massive reach**: Over 90 million monthly readers, making it the most read business news publication in the world.
- **Brand trust and authority**: A leading global news brand known for breaking major stories and setting the agenda in business and tech.
- **Part of a global powerhouse**: As a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, it leverages resources, reach, and stability of a major international media company.
- **Digital-native culture**: Founded in the digital age, with a strong focus on social distribution, platforms, video, and AI-powered features.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued innovation in digital storytelling**: Embracing AI (audio briefings), social distribution, and platform growth.
- **Global expansion**: Building out offices in San Francisco, Chicago, London, and Singapore.
- **Deepening coverage**: Maintaining a center of gravity in business, tech, and innovation while expanding into new areas.
- **Audience growth**: Reaching the next generation of leaders and the digital generation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast, informative, smart, and social. A fun-loving culture built for the digital age. Collaborative and dynamic environment.
- **Impact**: Employees have a huge impact, with work resonating with over 90 million people each month.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to creating a work environment that embraces difference and leverages diverse backgrounds. EEO employer.
- **Work-Life Balance**: Unlimited vacation policy; freedom to manage work and life without compromising either.
- **Benefits**: Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) plan; commuter benefits; gym membership discounts; parental leave; and more.
- **Activities & Events**: Basketball tournaments, volunteering in homeless shelters, Whisky Wednesdays, and other employee-led activities.
- **Locations**: HQ in Silicon Alley, NYC, with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, London, and elsewhere.
- **Management**: A leadership team that has worked together since 2008, focused on growth and staying ahead of industry changes.

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