[Hiring] YouTube Podcast Producer @NerdWallet

Role Description

At NerdWallet, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to all of life’s financial decisions, and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. As a contractor, you’ll work alongside our full-time team members on meaningful projects in an inclusive, flexible, and collaborative environment. This is a temporary role, but you’ll have real ownership and contribute to tangible results.

NerdWallet is looking for an experienced podcast and YouTube producer to help our award-winning shows ship flawlessly, every week.

Our Content Marketing Team helps people know, trust, and love NerdWallet by delivering them great content in the channels and formats they turn to most for financial advice. In this role, you'll own per-episode execution and longform YouTube packaging for our podcast portfolio, including the Smart Money and Smart Travel podcasts:

• Writing show notes and YouTube descriptions
• Creating thumbnail briefs
• Reporting on performance across platforms
• Ensuring every episode ships on time, fully packaged, and optimized to be found

Reporting to the Content Marketing Manager, Podcasts, you'll collaborate with a small team that includes podcast hosts, producers, strategists, a thumbnail designer, and marketing managers.

This role is defined by ownership and operational excellence:

• Applying our packaging and SEO frameworks with speed, consistency, and strong editorial judgment
• Your reporting and recommendations will directly shape how we package and grow our shows

This role reports to the Staff Brand Manager.

Where you can make an impact:

• Own our show notes: Write show notes for Smart Money and Smart Travel — both podcast and YouTube versions — and route them to our producer for copy editing on a consistent Monday–Thursday publish schedule.
• Drive our thumbnail pipeline: Create detailed YouTube thumbnail briefs, applying our title and packaging frameworks, and coordinate with our thumbnail designer to ensure on-time delivery for every episode.
• Report on performance: Pull and maintain weekly data from Megaphone, YouTube Studio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Veritonic, keep our reporting spreadsheets current, and deliver concise executive summaries that highlight what's working, what isn't, and what's worth watching.
• Safeguard priority placements: Review episode scripts against our priority link list to confirm each episode includes the right call-outs to NerdWallet resources.
• Maximize organic discovery: Strengthen our podcast SEO by managing keyword tracking in Ausha and validating YouTube titles, descriptions, and tags with vidIQ.
• Help launch new channels: Support the launch and ongoing packaging of a Smart Travel YouTube channel — descriptions, thumbnails, and metadata — as it comes online.
• Grow with the portfolio: Your scope and hours may expand as NerdWallet considers expanding its podcast portfolio.

Qualifications

• A self-directed operator: You've run podcast and YouTube publishing operations before and work autonomously.
• A strong, fast writer: You can match an established brand voice and produce clean, accurate copy on deadline.
• Deadline-driven and detail-obsessed: Episodes ship on time, every time, with nothing missing.
• A clear, proactive communicator: You keep editors, designers, and managers ahead of every deadline.
• Analytical and insights-driven: You're comfortable pulling performance data from multiple platforms.
• AI-fluent: You actively use AI tools like Claude to accelerate drafting, research, and analysis.

Experience

• 3–5 years of hands-on podcast and/or YouTube production experience, including writing show notes, episode descriptions, and platform metadata.
• Hands-on experience producing and packaging podcast content for YouTube channels that grew.
• Experienced with podcast hosting and analytics platforms — we use Megaphone, Apple Podcasts, Spotify for Creators, and Veritonic.
• Used SEO and keyword tools for podcasts and YouTube (we use Ausha and vidIQ) or comparable platforms.
• Managed recurring publishing schedules and coordinated deliverables across editors, designers, and stakeholders.
• Worked with personal finance content or in other regulated, compliance-reviewed editorial environments (a plus, not a requirement).

Where

This role will be remote (based in the U.S.).

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