Executive Producer, Enterprise

Based in New York, this role oversees quick-turn and long-lead enterprise and video investigations coverage.

About the role

This position calls for a deeply experienced editorial leader with exceptional production and management skills, a global mindset, and the ability to drive both fast-moving coverage of news enterprise pieces and ambitious long-form projects. The ideal candidate will be decisive, collaborative, and deeply invested in producing exceptional content. You will work closely with colleagues across the newsroom to deliver distinctive, revelatory, and news-making journalism. You’ll shape ideas, push creative boundaries, and build compelling new formats. This is both a leadership and hands-on role, reporting to the Head of Video.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the enterprise team in NY, fostering collaboration, growth, and innovation.
• Drive coverage of quick-turn enterprise stories and visual investigations off the news cycle, while also overseeing longer-lead enterprise pieces.
• Shape and refine story ideas, scripts, and edits to ensure high production values and the highest journalistic standards.
• Work closely with video journalists to hone story angles, strengthen scripts, and ensure videos maintain the highest production value while adhering to all journalistic and legal standards.
• Collaborate with video leadership to conceptualize and program a pipeline to deliver ambitious enterprise work at a regular cadence.
• Collaborate with newsroom leaders and reporting teams to develop and build video journalism pieces across all formats, aligning with and complementing our overall editorial strategy.
• Build relationships with the global newsroom to develop a more video-forward way of thinking.
• Partner with strategy, product, and audience teams to develop distinctive video formats that resonate with audiences and execute an enterprise strategy in alignment with the rest of the global newsroom.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in a daily video news environment, with a focus on enterprise and investigative reporting, including managing a team.
• A track record of producing distinctive enterprise and investigative coverage, as well as timely investigative analysis that stands out in the 24/7 information cycle.
• Exceptional editorial judgment, communication, and decision-making skills under pressure.
• Strong script-writing and editing experience under tight deadlines.
• Experience with documentary and series development and production.
• Experience in OSINT reporting, gathering, and analyzing publicly available information.
• A sharp eye for stories that resonate with WSJ’s audience and a deep understanding of current events, global politics, economics, and business.
• Experience building a strategic vision for ambitious journalism across coverage areas and formats.
• Experience working with reporters and correspondents to develop a voice and on-camera style.
• A specific understanding of content and audience differentiation on various platforms, including O&O and YouTube.
• An impeccable eye for the smallest details.
• The ability to foster and facilitate the personal development of team members.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

Pay

Base pay range: $170,000 - $200,000. We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.