Editorial AI Producer

Overview

Strengthening and empowering all of the communities we serve.

This is a remote position.

Advance Local is looking for an Editorial AI Producer to help scale and support our growing use of AI across local newsrooms. This role sits at the intersection of journalism, technology, and workflow design — translating newsroom ideas into practical tools, experiments, and processes that actually get used.

The Editorial AI Producer will work closely with newsroom leaders, local AI liaisons, and the central AI team to help move ideas from concept to execution, while also supporting training, documentation, and adoption across markets.

This is a hands-on, collaborative role focused on making AI useful, understandable, and editorially sound.

The base salary range is $100,000 to $110,000 per year.

Bridge editorial and technical work

• Work with reporters, editors, and newsroom leaders to shape AI-related ideas into clear, buildable use cases
• Collaborate with developers to turn those ideas into workflows, automations, or tool

• Serve as a primary point of contact for AI liaisons in each newsroom.
• Help prioritize requests, track progress, and ensure work is shared across markets when possible

• Help design and run newsroom trainings, demos, and office hours
• Create clear documentation, guides, and examples so tools are easy to understand and reuse

• Identify successful workflows or experiments and help adapt them for broader use
• Reduce friction by standardizing processes, templates, and best practices

• Support early exploration of data-driven or AI-assisted storytelling ideas for audiences
• Help document learnings from pilots without locking into specific product promises

• Thisis nota pure engineering role — but technical curiosity and comfort working with developers is essential.
• Thisis nota traditional editor role — but strong editorial judgment and newsroom experience matter.
• Thisisa bridge role: part producer, part translator, part organizer.

• Degree in Journalism, Communications or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of journalism experience with a proven ability in reporting and writing
• Experience working in or closely with a newsroom, editorial product team, or journalism-adjacent role
• Strong communication skills — especially the ability to translate between editorial and technical audiences
• Proficiency in adopting emerging tools and workflows (Familiarity with AI workflow tools like N8N, Mind Studio or others is a plus; deep expertise is not required)
• The skills to manage multiple requests and markets without losing momentum
• A track record of experimenting with new tools pragmatically, focusing on utility rather than hype

Advance Local has already built meaningful AI infrastructure for reporters. This role helps ensure that work:

• Is well-documented and understood
• Continues to evolve without becoming bottlenecked

The Editorial AI Producer will play a key role in shaping how AI is used responsibly and effectively in local journalism.