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The Local Advertising Account Executive is responsible for building Axios' local advertising business, developing relationships with local advertisers, and generating revenue through a self-built pipeline, leveraging an existing network in their market.

Build pipeline and generate new revenue across local territories through prospecting, networking, referrals, and market engagement. Support and increasingly own the sales cycle, including discovery, proposals, negotiation, and closing. Provide temporary account coverage, maintain CRM records, manage client relationships, collaborate cross-functionally, represent Axios at industry events, and develop toward independent territory ownership.

The Software Engineer will design and implement reliable services and APIs using Golang and Python, ensuring performance, scalability, and system reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The reporter will cover local news in Dallas, co-author newsletters, leverage AI for reporting, and engage with the community.

The Reporter will cover local news in Colorado Springs, create newsletters, build sources, and leverage AI for reporting while maintaining a conversational writing style.

Lead audience growth and lifecycle marketing for Axios Live Essential events. Own acquisition, CRM and email strategy, build automated behavior-driven journeys, manage paid social campaigns, segment and nurture high-value audiences, run A/B tests, maintain performance dashboards, and coordinate cross-functionally to increase registrations, retention and lifetime audience value.

Lead optimization of subscription, registration, and paywall experiences through A/B testing and experimentation. Own landing page and first-party data capture testing, SEO/GEO conversion strategies, onsite personalization (Segment), and Piano platform performance. Partner cross-functionally to build a prioritized experimentation roadmap, establish conversion benchmarks, and scale optimization processes to grow subscriptions and improve conversion funnels.

Monitor breaking news in real time, write quick-turn spot stories, flag developments for reporters and editors, collaborate across teams, and maintain a Smart Brevity writing style while using AI tools and social platforms to produce timely digital journalism.

As an Analytics Engineer at Axios, you'll design and maintain data products and visualizations, improving decision-making through actionable insights.

Report on the business and capital shaping the defense industry: breaking news on VC, startups, M&A, public companies, procurement, and policy; write a bi-weekly newsletter; act as public authority on stage; collaborate across teams to produce timely, concise coverage.