Editorial Event Producer - Contract Opportunity

**Who we are** Semafor is a global news platform for an increasingly complex world in which consumers are overwhelmed by too many news sources and unsure what to trust. We are building Semafor to enable world\-class journalists to deliver reporting and insights with rigor in journalistic forms that ensure a new level of transparency. Our editors and reporters distill the most important stories from all over in formats that uncover the forces shaping the stories, explain the interests behind polarizing narratives, and replenish the stock of shared facts. As a global platform, Semafor recognizes that smart people can disagree and that informed readers need to understand alternative points of view from competing centers of power and culture in a multi\-polar world. Want to join us? Read on. **About this Role** As the Editorial Event Producer, you will work closely with Semafor’s Executive Editor and live journalism team to help produce our flagship global economic event. You will engage prospective guests, develop thoughtful programming recommendations, and manage multiple executive relationships with exceptional communication. The role requires the ability to speak fluently across industries and global economic issues, understand what makes an executive or policymaker compelling on stage, and connect their expertise to the broader editorial agenda. You will take ownership of guest outreach and booking timelines, working proactively to move conversations forward and navigate complex organizations to reach the right people. You should be a resourceful, self\-starting researcher who knows how to find information when it is not readily available, quickly get up to speed on unfamiliar companies, industries, and leaders. Throughout, you will bring strong editorial judgment, curiosity, creativity, and an entrepreneurial mindset to building a newsworthy, high\-caliber program featuring some of the most influential leaders in business, government, technology, and finance. **Your Responsibilities** * Own outreach and booking for a portfolio of senior executives, government leaders and other high\-profile prospective guests for Semafor’s flagship economic event. * Identify contacts and pursue outreach with persistence, creativity, and sound judgment across executive offices, communications teams, and other channels. * Own outreach pipelines, leading follow\-ups and updates as needed to secure commitments.. * Serve as a compelling ambassador for Semafor, speaking fluently about the event’s editorial mission, audience, and value proposition and persuasively articulate why an executive should participate. * Leverage the strongest verbal communication skills when communicating with executive teams and exhibit professionalism, warmth, responsiveness and attention to detail throughout the booking process. * Lead pre\-event editorial calls with executive teams to discuss programming, surfacing the most compelling areas for conversation and detailed