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Manage post-sale advertising accounts from kickoff through campaign wrap, coordinating production, launches, reporting, optimization, and client communications. Support pre-sale media planning, proposals, RFP responses, renewals, and growth opportunities while partnering with sales and cross-functional teams. Use campaign analytics to recommend improvements, build retention strategies, and deliver strong client experiences. The role requires digital campaign execution experience, organization, communication, problem-solving, and the ability to manage multiple campaigns independently.

Own product features and quarterly priorities from discovery through delivery. Use data, user research, and stakeholder insights to optimize user journeys, conversion funnels, engagement, and business outcomes. Collaborate with engineering, design, editorial, and revenue teams, communicate across audiences, maintain high-quality execution, mentor junior teammates, and apply AI tools to improve productivity and team efficiency.

Report on mergers and acquisitions, including LBOs and hostile takeovers, by breaking exclusive news, developing sources across the dealmaking community, identifying major story ideas, and explaining their significance to Axios readers. The role requires strong writing, collaboration, public speaking, and media appearances across television, radio, podcasts, and social platforms. The reporter will work in a high-pressure environment while supporting Axios’s Smart Brevity style and reader-first mission.

Staff Software Engineer leading architecture, hands-on development, and delivery of reliable frontend, backend, API, data, and production systems across multiple teams. The role drives multi-quarter initiatives, AI-enabled engineering practices, system scalability, security, observability, incident response, technical standards, mentorship, and alignment between technical investments and product outcomes.

Leads engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, delivery practices, and vendor selection across Axios products, platforms, workflows, and internal systems. Develops engineering managers and senior technical leaders, strengthens planning and quality, aligns engineering capacity with business priorities, and partners with executive, product, design, newsroom, and business stakeholders. The role also drives AI adoption in software development and defines engineering standards, benchmarks, and operating practices.

Leads Axios Product, Design, and AI Enablement organizations; establishes company-wide product strategy, prioritization, governance, and decision rights. Partners with senior leaders and the CTO to identify opportunities, evaluate AI-enabled ideas, and turn successful experiments into durable products and shared platforms. Oversees product portfolio management, strengthens product leadership, and guides development across editorial, revenue, operational, and consumer-facing products.

Produces Axios original video content end to end, from ideation, scripting, and shooting through editing, publishing, promotion, and audience growth. Develops treatments, shot lists, scripts, and production plans; collaborates with editorial, social, audience, revenue, talent, vendors, and production partners; and manages multiple deadlines. Creates platform-native content for YouTube and digital channels using audience insights, search, retention, and performance trends.

Report on Washington, D.C. news, lifestyle, sports and local events while authoring a daily Axios newsletter. The reporter will develop sources, break news, produce conversational Smart Brevity-style content, use AI tools to improve reporting and production, and help shape Axios Local's evolving product. Success requires strong local-market knowledge, entrepreneurial initiative, deadline experience, curiosity, and the ability to create compelling scoops and insights for local readers.

Own and grow a local sales territory for Axios by building outbound pipelines, acquiring new advertisers, closing business, and expanding existing partnerships. Lead the full sales cycle, develop territory and category strategies, exceed revenue targets, sell to senior decision-makers, and coordinate deal execution across internal teams. The role focuses on local and regional advertisers within the digital media and news industry and includes representing Axios in-market with willingness to travel.

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.