The Assembly is a digital magazine bringing backroom conversations to North Carolina’s front page. We focus on enterprise stories, revelatory scoops, and authoritative looks at under-covered topics, people, and places. Our stories surprise, inform, and leave readers with a better understanding of the state.
We also lead The Assembly Network, which includes local teams around the state helping us shape the future of state-level journalism. The network also includes INDY in the Triangle, CityView in Fayetteville, Border Belt Independent in the Sandhills, and The Thread in Greensboro.
We offer a collaborative, innovative work environment where your ideas will be heard and valued. You’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact on a growing organization and on the communities we serve.
Together, we are redefining how North Carolinians connect with the places they live. Our mission is to deliver trusted local news, compelling storytelling, and uniquely voiced cultural recommendations that help readers understand and navigate what’s happening in their neighborhood, city, and state.
We aim to be a reflection of the state, with reporters from—and based in—diverse communities across North Carolina. We also aim to bring national talent to North Carolina that can help us improve the journalism ecosystem in a growing and important state.
We want a newsroom that reflects a diversity of talent and perspectives. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, people who were formerly incarcerated, veterans, and people with disabilities.
Questions and applications should be sent to jobs@theassemblync.com.
Current Openings
Deputy Director, Audience and Growth
As the deputy director of The Assembly Network’s audience team, you will own our funnel strategy and help shape our approach to audience acquisition and conversion across our newsrooms.
This role will shape the readers’ journey from acquisition to retention, while working with team leads in marketing, membership, newsletters, editorial, and events.
The deputy director will be responsible for making a complicated but impactful network of products work together more seamlessly to deliver high-quality reporting and grow our paid memberships. This is a data-driven role, and the ideal candidate should be able to help stakeholders across the organization better understand audience needs and behaviors.
This is an instrumental role in our growing audience, product, and membership team, reporting directly to the director of audience and product.
Responsibilities:
- Drive a comprehensive funnel strategy in consultation and collaboration with other team leaders.
- Work with the director of audience and product to develop and track Key Performance Indicators that connect audience experiences with business outcomes.
- Develop data-management dashboards to provide actionable and timely business insights.
- Manage team member responsible for SEO, social content, and new product management, including experiments like SMS messaging.
- Oversee outside vendors who manage the company’s audience data infrastructure, identifying gaps and offering data-driven insights to the rest of the team.
- Manage tech contractors as they make improvements to our back-end infrastructure and the front-end user experience.
- Stay ahead of evolving audience needs and media trends to better inform our content strategies and priorities.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture that reflects The Assembly Network’s core values.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5+ years of relevant work experience in audience insights and product development, including data analytics experience, along with the ability to understand how data can inform editorial and product strategy.
- Experience and expertise with audience research, analytics, CMS-driven workflows, and cross-platform programming.
- Familiarity with the standards and ethics of journalism, as well as the work of The Assembly Network.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits:
Our starting salary for this position is flexible and dependent on experience. We’ll ask you to be upfront during the interview process with your needs, and we’ll do the same about our abilities. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes covering 80% of health care costs, 12 weeks of parental leave, and 20 days of PTO every year in addition to federal holidays.
About The Assembly Network
The Assembly Network is North Carolina’s nationally recognized platform for in-depth, independent reporting about the people, institutions and ideas shaping our state. Our award-winning journalism reaches more than 130,000 email subscribers and four million website visitors. Assembly Network readers are decision makers, business and policy leaders, and community builders who shape perceptions and drive change.
The Network features local news operations in Cary, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, and the Border Belt, as well as a statewide team covering politics, health care, K-12 and higher education, and culture.
The Assembly Network participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. We are an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
To apply please send your resume to jobs@theassemblync.com
While we do not have any additional openings at this time, we’d love to hear from you. Please send a note to jobs@theassemblync.com with your resume and clips, and we’ll stay in touch for future hiring.