Associate Producer - Masters of Scale
Wait What, United States

About WaitWhat

WaitWhat is a media invention company, recognized for the highest quality, most genre-defining content today. Founded by June Cohen and Deron Triff the executives who built and led TED’s media organization from its beginnings through its establishment as a global phenomenon WaitWhat is building the most valuable, independent portfolio of premium IP, designed around essential human needs with a contrarian strategy to scale. In everything the company creates, it aims to elicit the contagious emotions of wonder, curiosity, and mastery infusing our content with Wait, what? moments that spark curiosity and change our understanding of the world.Our properties each one profitable, each earning Webby Award honors and together downloaded more than 60 million times include the now-iconic Masters of Scale (hosted by LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman), the genre-defining hit Meditative Story (in partnership with Arianna Huffington’s Thrive), and the provocative and timely Should This Exist? (hosted by Silicon Valley pioneer Caterina Fake). In January, we introduce Spark amp; Fire, a completely original series that takes audiences into the minds of famous creators who describe in an exquisitely crafted first-person story set to music the journey to bring their iconic works to life. WaitWhat’s unmatched guest list of iconic thinkers and doers range from Sir Richard Branson to novelist Isabel Allende; Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban to Trinity Church’s Pastor Otis Moss; Cellist Yo-Yo Ma to Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman to baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr.WaitWhat closed its Series A in April 2019, with a remarkable, gender-balanced group of investors led by Cue Ball Capital and Burda Principal Investments. The company has forged successful collaborations with Harvard Business School, Thrive Global, Omidyar Network, the Summit Series, Entrepreneur Magazine, among others, who are working alongside WaitWhat to scale its properties into apps, courses, live events, books, and video. WaitWhat’s sponsors include blue-chip clients like ATamp;T, AWS, Accenture, Capital One, Deloitte and Mastercard and digital powerhouses like HubSpot, Skillshare, Zoom, and others who turn to WaitWhat for unmatched storytelling and exceptional results.Based in New York City, with a number of remote contributors, WaitWhat has built an exceptionally talented team of media inventors who are committed to the founders’ vision for first-of-their-kind media platforms that endure and scale. The company’s vibrant culture is rooted in optimism, possibility thinking, and an uncommon willingness to embrace risk with intention to push the outer bounds of creativity and experimentation. The team purposefully rich in diversity treats each other with kindness and respect, tolerant of differences and always supporting yes, and-style conversations (consistent with best practices of design thinking and improv).

About Masters of Scale

Masters of Scale is an original podcast hosted by LinkedIn Co-Founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman showing how companies grow from zero to a gazillion. The series unfolds like a music-infused detective story as Hoffman tests his theories with famous founders. Masters of Scale won the 2018 Webby Award for Best Business Podcast. We believe its unique sound and story structure are core to its identity and success. The innovative format incorporates an immersive cold open; unexpected cameo guests (among them: a Nobel Laureate, an Olympic athlete, a Hall-of-Fame sportscaster.); actionable insights and innovative sound design. Each episode is scored with original music by our composers. Guests have included Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, NetFlix’s Reed Hastings, Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, Spanx’s Sara Blakely, Spotify’s Daniel Ek, and TaskRabbit’s Stacy Brown-Philpot, among many others. Masters of Scale is the first American media program to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for guests

Requirements

We’re looking for a swiss army knife-esque, ready to dive in - Associate Producer to join our growing team. You must love start-up culture, feel energized by team-oriented environments, and have an all-hands-on-deck attitude.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to explore the widest range of possibilities; to both deepen your skills and stretch your existing talents in new ways; to take real ownership and responsibility for projects; to help invent new genre-defining media/technology properties; to be a respected member of a creative cross-disciplinary team; to be inspired and delighted by the media you work on; to be mentored by a range of experienced colleagues; and to be part of a low-ego, high-collaboration, all hands on deck startup environment, this job could be perfect for you.

You will be at the center of WaitWhat’s production team, focused on Mast