Producer, Audio (6 Month FTC - July 2024 through January 2025)

At Penguin Random House Audio, the UK’s leading audiobook publisher, we are dedicated to making the very best audiobooks. Working with exceptional talent, producers and studios, we publish award-winning and bestselling audiobooks such as Lisa Jewell’s None of this is True, Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO, David Mitchell’s Unruly and Dr Julie Smith’s Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? 

We have an exciting opportunity to join this fast-paced team as a Producer working in our in-house and external studios. This is a full-time, fixed term contract position to cover a period of parental leave (6 months, July 2024 through January 2025).  

The Opportunity 

Reporting into our Senior Producer, this role will play a lead role delivering high-quality and innovative audiobooks across Penguin Random House working across our production, studio and post-production teams. 

Day to day, you can expect to be 

• Directing and engineering recording sessions for a number of Penguin Studios productions, working across a broad range of genres. 

• Leaning into author care and talent management; ensuring everybody who records in Penguin Studios has a great experience. 

• Meticulously preparing for every recording, reading each text and preparing detailed notes on pronunciation, character and tone. 

• Briefing and monitoring post-production on your own titles, including reading proof reports, listening to final masters and advising on sound effects, music and other design elements. 

• Regularly feeding back on recording learnings, promoting a culture of sharing information across the wider team. 

• Undertaking any research to support productions or compiling pronunciations for books with extensive foreign, specialist or complex language. 

What you’ll bring 

We’d love to hear from you if you combine a love for literature and proven hands-on experience producing audio within different genres and styles. 

You’ll have: 

• Minimum three years’ experience in audio production for audiobooks.  

• An understanding of audio technology, including recording interfaces, recording software, microphones, and compressors. 

• Experience directing actors and readers for the best possible audio performance. 

• New ideas and creativity around how to produce innovative and market-leading audiobooks. 

• Confidence working with senior stakeholders across projects. 

• The ability to juggle various projects at any one time. 

If you’d like to help to shape the future of audiobooks, the fastest-growing area of publishing, please apply to us with a CV and cover letter by midnight on Wednesday 1st May. 

What you can expect from us 

Salary: Circa £33,000 depending on how your skills and experience align with the role, plus bonus and benefits 

Hybrid working: While our offices are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility about where you work is just as important for doing your best work and for your wellbeing. For this role, all recordings and some meetings will need to be attended in person at our offices in Embassy Gardens. We are open to discussing the exact balance of office to remote working (e.g. for text prep) through the recruitment process. 

Competitive benefits package:  

Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.  

Our benefits include: 

Financial – discounted shopping, season ticket loan, rental deposit loan 

Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, employee assistance, gym loan 

Lifestyle – taste card, tech scheme, free and discounted books 

For our full benefits list please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/ 

The recruitment process:  

You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/ 

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview. 

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request. 

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.  

Company: The Random House Group Limited 

Country: United Kingdom 

State/Region: London 

City: London 

Postal Code: SW11 7BW 

Job ID: 269626