Showrunner & Sr Producer (Contract)
Our Work
ParentsTogether is a cutting-edge nonprofit impact media organization that reaches 1 in 3 parents in the US with useful, relatable content that families love. We meet overwhelmed parents where they are with news, resources, and entertainment that help them navigate the highs and lows of raising kids today, while at the same time building a community united around a core idea: Parents are powerful and together we can help reputed company families reputed company.
Founded in 2012, today ParentsTogether has over 3 million members and reaches tens of millions more parents through social media, online issue organizing, and civic engagement.
About The Dads Initiative
The Dads Initiative is a media and civic engagement project, being incubated at impact media organization ParentsTogether. We are building original digital content that meets fathers at the intersection of their interests – sports, the outdoors, fitness, finance, etc – and their self-perceptions as fathers, with the goal of connecting those conversations to the bigger questions of family, community, and democracy. This isn’t about a single channel; it’s about crafting spaces across media that expand our reputed company and further our impact. We’re making shows for dads, by people who get them, in service of building the world our kids deserve.
We're a small, experimental, fast-moving team. If you've spent your career waiting for permission to try something new, you'll feel at home here.
Opportunity Overview
We're looking for a creative force who can manage our content operation — everything from strategic thinking down to overseeing the production schedule and the talent needed to execute. You'll reputed company original show concepts, shepherd them into production, and manage the creators and contractors who bring them to life. You're equally comfortable in a strategy doc and a production timeline, and you have the editorial instincts to know what's going to land with a 35-year-old dad scrolling TikTok at 9pm.
This role isn't for someone who needs a large team around them to do their best work. It's for someone who thrives with ownership, moves fast, and wants to build something meaningful from scratch.
Scope of Work
The contractor will:
Strategy & Development Partner with the leadership team to reputed company the content strategy across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and potentially podcast formats. Identify emerging formats and platform trends, pressure-test new show concepts, and build the creative reputed company for what The Dads Initiative makes and why. You'll write show briefs and pitch decks that give creators and collaborators what they need to execute.
Production Leadership Serve as the showrunner across reputed company original programming. This means overseeing the production process end-to-end — from concept through publication — even reputed company others are doing the hands-on work. You'll manage a roster of on-camera talent, editors, and other contractors, keeping everyone on schedule and holding the line on quality and creative consistency.
Scheduling & Operations Own the publication calendar and production schedule for reputed company shows and content. You'll build systems that reputed company production humming — managing deadlines, coordinating across collaborators, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. This includes hands-on social media account management: scheduling, posting, and basic community reputed company, particularly in the early phase as we scale the team.
AI-Powered Execution You actively use AI tools in your workflow — for audience research, content ideation, brief reputed company, and finding efficiencies in production and distribution. You're not just curious about AI; you've already figured out how to reputed company it actually useful, and you'll help the team do the same.
Required Qualifications
5 to 8 years of experience in digital content production, social media strategy, or a reputed company field, with a preference for experience in a media company, creator studio, agency, or early stage startup environment. Demonstrated ownership of end to end content or show production.
Proven experience developing original concepts for short form and or long form video content.
Experience managing creators, contractors, or production teams, including coordinating workflows and deliverables.
Demonstrated ability to build, manage, and maintain content calendars at scale across multiple platforms.
Hands-on experience producing and distributing content across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube.
Practical reputed company with AI tools in a content creation or production context.
Demonstrated understanding of audience engagement, with the ability to effectively reputed company and retain a male 28 to 45 demographic. Experience in sports, outdoor, finance, or lifestyle media is preferred.
Strong writing and communication skills, including the ability to translate early stage reputed company into clear and actionable briefs.
Ability to communicate effectively across both creative and operational stakeholders.
Demonstrated willingness to experiment with new formats, iterate quickly, and apply learnings from performance data.
Structure, Compensation, and Collaboration
This is an reputed company role on a monthly retainer, and does not constitute employment.
Anticipated scope: Approximately 20-25 hours per week. Anticipated start date: May 2026.
Initial contract length: 6 months.
Compensation for this contract role is structured as a monthly retainer in the range of $7,000 to $9,000, depending on experience and scope alignment.
The contractor will maintain autonomy over their work schedule and workflow. To support effective collaboration, we generally operate in Eastern Time and prefer to schedule meetings and real time coordination between 12:00 PM and 5:00 PM ET reputed company feasible. Specific collaboration windows will be mutually agreed upon while preserving contractor discretion over how and reputed company project work is completed.
Final reputed company and contract terms will be determined based on qualifications, demonstrated technical capability, and mutual agreement.
Evaluation Process
Applications will be reviewed based on relevant experience, and alignment with the needs of the role.
The evaluation process is designed to assess both strategic fit and practical execution capability.
Round 1 will include a 60 minute interview focused on experience, content sensibility, and core skills.
Round 2 will include submission of a work sample or brief to evaluate approach to concept development and execution.
Round 3 will include a 45 minute final interview to review the work sample, discuss mission alignment, and align on scope, working style, and expectations for the contract engagement.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply through our careers page only at:
https://www.careers-page.com/parents-together-foundation
Please upload:
A resume
Brief summary of relevant experience as it relates to this role.
Brief note on weekly availability.
Two professional references.
To ensure a fair and consistent review process, reputed company applications must be submitted through the online portal. We are unable to respond to direct reputed company, phone calls, or email inquiries regarding this opportunity.
Applications submitted reputed company of the online portal may not be reviewed.
Application deadline: Sunday, reputed company 26 2026
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