Audience Building Is the Thread Connecting Today’s Best Roles
Scroll through today’s open media positions and a pattern emerges quickly. Across wildly different industries, employers are hunting for people who understand audience relationships from the inside out. A personal development publisher wants someone to steward membership communities. A labor union representing 290,000 letter carriers needs a digital strategist to deepen member engagement. An independent news outlet is hiring a senior producer who can grow viewership across live and recorded formats.
These organizations have almost nothing in common on the surface. But the job descriptions read like variations on a single brief: find someone who can turn passive followers into active participants. Community management, once treated as a junior social media function, has become a strategic priority across sectors. And the salaries reflect that shift.
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Today’s featured roles also share another quality worth noting: every one of them publishes a clear salary range. If you’re evaluating multiple opportunities right now, that kind of transparency makes comparison straightforward. Here are four roles that reward audience-building expertise in very different contexts.
Today’s Hot Jobs
Content and Community Manager, Rebecca Campbell at Hay House
Why this one caught our eye: Hay House, the personal development publishing powerhouse founded by Louise Hay, is hiring someone to run two distinct membership communities for author Rebecca Campbell. The role combines community engagement, digital content production, and virtual event coordination, all on a four-day work week. That schedule alone makes this role unusual for a full-time position with benefits.
- Lead stewardship of two membership communities: The Sanctuary and The Inner Temple Mystery School
- Collaborate directly with Rebecca Campbell on content production and event planning
- Manage digital content workflows from creation through publishing
- Salary: $65,000 to $75,000, fully remote from anywhere in the U.S.
Apply to the Content and Community Manager position at Hay House
Digital Strategy Manager at National Association of Letter Carriers
The opportunity here: The NALC represents 290,000 active and retired letter carriers, and they’re building out their digital team in Washington, D.C. This leadership role focuses on expanding the union’s digital footprint through strategy development, podcast and video production oversight, and advocacy campaign support. If you’ve been honing digital strategy skills in media or marketing and want to apply them to organized labor, this is a rare opening at a well-established institution with a clear mission.
- Develop and implement digital strategy to advance the union’s goals and grow online presence
- Manage multiple projects including podcast, video, and advocacy campaigns
- Strong analytical and written communication skills required
- Salary: $75,000 to $105,000, based in Washington, D.C.
Apply to the Digital Strategy Manager position at NALC
Senior Producer at Status Coup News
What makes this role distinct: Status Coup News is an independent outlet built around on-the-ground reporting that challenges mainstream media narratives. The senior producer role is genuinely editorial in nature: you’ll oversee video edits, manage a growing team of reporters and freelance contributors, and shape how stories are packaged across live and recorded formats. This is a chance to run the production engine at a scrappy, growing newsroom with a strong editorial point of view.
- Assign, oversee, and organize video edits; manage quality control on all re-edits
- Manage reporters, producers, editors, and freelance video journalists
- Work directly under CEO and reporter Jordan Chariton
- Salary: $80,000 to $85,000, fully remote with benefits
Apply to the Senior Producer position at Status Coup News
Executive Editor at Association for Computing Machinery
For the experienced editorial leader: ACM’s flagship technology magazine needs an Executive Editor who can run the publication end to end: editorial calendar, staff management, author acquisition, budgets, and revenue growth. The role also includes P&L responsibility and working with ad sales to develop new products. Experience with the software development audience is a plus. At $125K to $140K, this is one of the stronger compensation packages available for editorial jobs right now.
- Lead the editorial team, shape the calendar, and acquire authors and articles
- P&L responsibility with annual budget management
- Manage circulation and oversee website growth
- Salary: $125,000 to $140,000, hybrid in New York City (three days onsite)
Apply to the Executive Editor position at ACM
The Takeaway for Job Seekers
If your resume still frames community management as “ran social media accounts,” it’s time for a rewrite. The roles hiring today treat audience building as a strategic function with real budget, team, and revenue implications. Whether you’re managing membership communities at a publisher or scaling digital engagement for a union, employers want to see that you understand retention, not just reach.
Quantify the communities you’ve grown. Show how you turned engagement into measurable outcomes, whether that’s membership renewals, event attendance, or content consumption. And if you do land an interview that leads to an offer, make sure you know how to evaluate and respond to it strategically.
The leverage is there for people with these skills right now. Use it.
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