YouTube & Podcast Growth Manager

USA (On-site)

$70K/yr – $80K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize the Kim Komando YouTube channel end-to-end, turning data into a repeatable growth plan across publishing, SEO, and audience development.

  • Translate channel strategy into publish-ready formats, thumbnails, and SEO-driven improvements that raise sustained viewership.
  • Produce video-first interview and short-form content that scales audience engagement and loyalty.
  • Measure, iterate, and report on performance to leadership to continuously improve growth results.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the entire Kim Komando YouTube channel, from strategy to publishing to performance analysis
  • Optimize every upload: titles, thumbnails, descriptions, tags, chapters, end screens, the whole playbook
  • Grow the channel, month over month, with a real strategy. Not guesses. Data.
  • Create and produce YouTube Shorts from existing show content and original ideas
  • Conduct and produce on-camera client interviews for tech brands, CEOs, and innovators
  • Collaborate with Kim and the production team on segment concepts built for video-first storytelling
  • Help launch and grow two new podcasts connected to the Kim Komando brand
  • Develop episode formats, guest pipelines, and audience growth tactics
  • Write and produce cross-promotional content for the podcasts across our radio show, YouTube, and newsletters
  • Build the kind of listener loyalty that turns casual fans into superfans

Requirements

  • You are obsessed with YouTube. You know what CTR means, why it matters, and how to move it.
  • You love technology. Not in a “I have a smartphone” way. In a “I read the changelog” way.
  • You have 2+ years of experience growing a YouTube channel or managing a podcast with real audience numbers
  • You can write. Short punchy copy for promos. Longer narrative copy for newsletters. You adapt your voice.
  • You’re comfortable on camera and behind it. Producing interviews is part of this job.
  • You understand SEO: not just web SEO, but YouTube SEO, podcast SEO, and why they’re different
  • You have experience with video editing tools (Adobe Premiere, CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, or similar)
  • You are a Phoenix local. Or you’re ready to move here. This job is in the studio, full-time, period.
  • You thrive in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment. We are not a committee. We move.

Preferred

  • Have experience in talk radio, syndicated media, or news/information content
  • Know your way around beehiiv, Spotify for Podcasters, or YouTube Studio analytics cold
  • Have launched a podcast from zero and grown it past 10,000 downloads
  • Can look at a 3-minute clip and know in 10 seconds if it has legs as a Short
  • Have worked with brand sponsors or managed endorsement-style content

Benefits

  • Environment Entrepreneurial, fast-moving, independently owned media company with national reach
  • Schedule Full-time, Monday through Friday, in-studio
  • Location Phoenix, AZ (85014) — In-Studio, Full-Time, No Remote
  • In-studio, full-time environment