Exec Producer, Hot Smart Rich

LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, USA

ABOUT FLIGHTSTORY

We are a media and investment company, and we are on a mission to elevate the stories, build the communities, and support the founders that inspire a happier, healthier humanity. We scale creator-led media, ventures and communities.

THE MISSION

To build Hot Smart Rich into the defining female ambition brand of the next decade and to own the editorial, production and growth engine that gets it there.

This is a senior build role for an experienced media operator. You will run HSR end to end: the editorial point of view, the show, the content system, translating long-term brand strategy and Maggie Sellers Reum’s creative vision into a production operation that scales with precision, taste and speed.

HSR is not a podcast. It’s the next modern female power brand, and you are the operator who turns that ambition into output every week, at a standard nobody else in the category can match. You partner directly with Maggie and FlightStory leadership, and you set the bar for everyone who builds under you.

This is also one of the most fun and consequential jobs in media right now. You’ll spend your days deep in pop culture, business and brands, building a brand world people want to belong to, working alongside one of the most exciting voices in the space. Get this right and it doesn’t just grow a show it builds a cultural force, and it becomes one of the defining chapters of your career.

If you want to maintain an existing show, this isn’t it. If you want the build of a lifetime - a category-defining media brand you help make from the inside - it is.

HSR is not traditional women's media, corporate empowerment content or wellness culture repackaged. It sits at the intersection of business, ambition, culture, money and modern femininity. It’s entertaining enough to compete for attention, substantive enough to change how women think about power, wealth and opportunity. The Exec Producer is responsible for protecting and evolving that position.

Outcomes

1. Own the Production Engine End to End

Lead the full production cycle of HSR - planning, recording, post, publishing across longform, social and written assets.
Set the global benchmark for premium female ambition media: guest experience, studio quality, edit output and quality that push what the category can do.
Build a round-the-clock production operation that delivers on time, on budget, at an uncompromising bar every week.

2. Own the Editorial Strategy

Own HSR’s editorial point of view what the brand stands for, what it talks about, who it talks to, and exactly how it sounds.
Shape the slate and guest strategy with the team: the conversations, themes and voices that define HSR and pull the culture toward it. Identify and secure the voices shaping culture before everyone else does.
Protect the north star of “unselfish content” sharp, high-signal storytelling that actually changes how the audience builds their own power and wealth.
Make editorial calls with conviction. Clear opinions, real experience, rooted in taste nothing generic, nothing that over-explains or plays it safe.

3. Live Inside the Culture

Be deeply immersed in pop culture, business and brands. You know the players, the moves and the moments before they hit the mainstream.
Track the cultural trends that actually matter to this brand and this audience: female ambition, modern wealth, the creator economy, and the conversations shaping the room.
Live inside the platforms especially YouTube. Fluent in how it rewards packaging, titling and retention, and where the audience’s attention is moving next.
Spot trend fatigue and cultural shifts early, and move fast to put HSR ahead of them rather than chasing them.

4. Protect and Scale the Brand World

Hold the editorial voice, aesthetic and pacing of HSR across every touchpoint. Make every output unmistakably HSR.
Build the formats, systems and IP that let the brand scale a platform, not a personality.
Flag dilution early and fix it fast.

5. Drive Growth Through YouTube, Data and Taste

Treat YouTube as a primary growth engine: deep, current understanding of the algorithm, packaging, thumbnails, titles, watch-time and how to compound a channel.
Lead performance analysis across all platforms to understand what’s working, what’s not, and why.
Use audience behaviour and retention data to sharpen content, format and partnership decisions instinct, taste and evidence, never one without the other.
Build rapid test-and-learn pilots; scale what works with discipline, kill what doesn’t. Grow audience depth, not just reach.

6. Own Commercial Delivery

Oversee on-the-ground execution of brand partnerships and integrations, ensuring flawless delivery for partners.
Hold commercial output to the same editorial standard as the rest of the brand host-read and branded assets built with the same creativity and principles as the content.
Protect positioning. No short-term decisions that damage long-term brand equity.

7. Build the Team and Operate Like an Owner

Hire, lead and develop a high-performing team of A players, setting the standard for pace, ambition and creative bar.
Foster a culture of experimentation, urgency, ownership and the 1%s.
Run launches and brand moments with accountability and judgement. Solve problems before they escalate. Think in long-term equity, not short-term optics.

Competencies

Experienced media operator with a proven track record producing and scaling premium content or media brands.
Deep, current understanding of YouTube as a growth platform packaging, titling, thumbnails, retention and long-term channel strategy.
Immersed in pop culture, business and brands, with sharp instincts for the cultural trends that matter to this audience.
Strong editorial judgement, a clear point of view and the taste to know what HSR should and shouldn’t say.
Deep understanding of female ambition culture and modern wealth narratives.
Fluent across longform, social and platform-native storytelling and what makes content resonant and shareable.
Skilled at working with high-profile talent while protecting authenticity and voice.
Operationally sharp able to deliver complex production at pace and scale, on time and on budget.
Commercially aware and data-literate; understands that the real unlock is ideas that are profitable, scalable and repeatable.
Entrepreneurial, founder mindset: proactive, decisive, accountable. Low ego, high ownership.

What Success Looks Like

HSR is consistently seen as the benchmark for premium female ambition media, the standard others measure against.
The editorial point of view is sharp and unmistakable, and the slate consistently pulls the culture toward HSR.
Every output feels unmistakably HSR, impossible to mistake for another brand.
YouTube and the wider channel mix compound audience depth increases, not just reach, and the audience evolves into a loyal community..
Maggie feels creatively protected and strategically supported, free to operate in her zone of genius.
The team operates at a high bar with pace and ownership.
HSR is a movement, not just content.

You’ll Thrive Here If

You’re an experienced operator who still wants to build, not maintain and you want the kind of role you’ll talk about for the rest of your career.
You’re genuinely immersed in pop culture, business and brands, and you have a point of view on where it’s all going.
You think like a brand builder, focused on cultural resonance and enduring value not just a producer shipping episodes.
You move fast and don’t wait for perfect structure.
You care about cultural edge as much as commercial outcomes.
You want to help define the future of female ambition media, not inherit it.

Exec Producer, Hot Smart Rich