Head of Editorial, Axios Live

• →Set the editorial vision and strategy for Axios Live programming across all event formats.
• →Ensure all Axios Live editorial outputs, including onstage interviews, marketing materials, recap articles, and post-event coverage, meet Axios’ editorial standards and Smart Brevity style.
• →Exercise sound editorial judgment in fast-moving news environments, adapting programming as news develops and ensuring live-event scripts, materials, and coverage assets are ready for breaking-news needs.
• →Lead and develop the Axios Live editorial team, including editors, bookers, coverage leads, and Managing Editor; oversee team structure, role design, performance management, and career development.
• →Foster a collaborative, high-performing culture aligned with Axios’ mission and values.
• →Serve as the primary liaison to the broader newsroom, aligning editorial priorities, event coverage, and resource sharing.
• →Partner with Communications to align on timely promotion, amplification, and coverage of Axios Live events, while identifying opportunities to grow the Axios brand, audience, and event reach.
• →Lead rigorous copy editing and final editorial review of Axios Live’s external-facing materials, including event scripts, moderator notes, speaker introductions, marketing copy, run-of-show materials, recap stories, social copy, and other audience-facing assets, to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and adherence to Axios’ editorial standards and Smart Brevity style.

• Develop event concepts, programming arcs, and editorial frameworks for all Axios events, summits, and larger Axios-hosted programs.
• Shape a diverse, compelling Axios Live programming portfolio that keeps Axios at the forefront of news, policy, and industry storytelling.
• Partner with Sales and Partnerships to design sponsored and branded programming that maintains editorial integrity.

• Contribute to the strategic growth of Axios Live, including new formats, verticals, and revenue opportunities.
• Demonstrate comfort with and understanding of AI, automation, and emerging tools, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and quality across research, booking, production, and editorial workflows.
• Represent Axios Live internally and externally, and potentially onstage at live events, as a senior editorial voice.

• Own the connective tissue between Booking, including securing newsmakers and influencers, and Coverage, including event language, recaps, live-tweeting, and post-event content.
• Ensure seamless coordination among editorial, events, sales, and partnerships so programming is editorially sound and commercially compelling.

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