AXIOS Media jobs

Axios is hiring a Manager of National & SME Growth to drive subscriber acquisition and audience expansion across its flagship national newsletters while launching a new small and medium enterprise (SME) audience growth initiative. The role owns subscriber growth targets, leads paid acquisition strategy across Meta, Google, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms, and runs experiments to validate the SME audience model with cross-functional partners. You'll need 6+ years in growth marketing, audience acquisition, or subscription businesses, with proven expertise in paid media, analytics (CAC, LTV, attribution), and martech platforms like Braze, Segment, and Piano. The position is remote-optional across the US, with a salary range of $95,000–$120,000 depending on location and experience, plus comprehensive benefits including 401(k) matching, health coverage, and an annual learning stipend. A notable expectation: Axios requires all team members to actively develop AI literacy and integrate AI tools into daily workflows as a core part of the job.

Local Advertising Account Executive ("Local Market Builder") at Axios Media is a foundational in-market sales leadership role focused on building local advertising partnerships for Axios Local. Responsibilities include prospecting, closing deals with local advertisers ($5k–$15k range), building personal books of business, and in-market community presence. Located in Atlanta, GA; requires in-person presence. This is sales development, not engineering.

Local Advertising Account Executive ("Local Market Builder") at Axios Media is a foundational in-market sales leadership role focused on building local advertising partnerships for Axios Local. Responsibilities include prospecting, closing deals with local advertisers ($5k–$15k range), building personal books of business, and in-market community presence. Located in Chicago, IL; requires in-person presence. This is sales development, not engineering.

Reporter for Axios Local (Phoenix) covering local Phoenix news. Role involves co-authoring daily newsletter in Axios' Smart Brevity style, breaking news, creating conceptual scoops, and experimenting with AI for reporting. Remote-optional position. Requires journalism experience, strong sources, ability to break news, and deadline-driven work. Salary $60k-$100k depending on location and experience. Emphasis on AI literacy and local news coverage.

Axios seeks an Editor for North Carolina local news, managing reporters and overseeing daily newsletter production in the "Smart Brevity" style. Remote-eligible role emphasizing editorial leadership, story framing, and newsroom management. Salary $85k–$105k; AI literacy expected as company standard.

Axios, a growth-focused media company, is hiring a Software Engineer to build scalable backend systems powering their news platform that reaches millions of readers daily. You'll develop high-quality REST APIs and backend services in Golang and Python, design database schemas, collaborate cross-functionally with product and frontend teams, and embed testing and performance optimization throughout your work. The role requires 2–5+ years of backend or full-stack development experience with hands-on Golang and/or Python, strong REST API knowledge, relational database familiarity, and comfort using AI tools like GitHub Copilot as part of daily development. Axios emphasizes AI literacy as a core expectation for all team members and offers a remote-optional position with a salary range of $130,000–$165,000 depending on location and experience, plus robust benefits including 401(k) match, health insurance, generous parental leave (18–20 weeks), and a $100 monthly work-from-home stipend. A notable stand-out is Axios' explicit commitment to integrating AI tools into workflows and its stated expectation that all employees actively develop AI literacy; cloud infrastructure experience and familiarity with containerization, gRPC, and observability tools are nice-to-haves.

Axios, a growth-focused media company, is hiring an Analytics Engineer to serve as the primary interface for delivering data-driven insights to the business. You'll own the Gold layer of the medallion architecture, designing and maintaining business metrics and semantic models, while building executive dashboards and visualizations that translate data products into actionable insights. Key responsibilities include defining data products, building and certifying dashboards, collaborating with data engineers and data scientists, and establishing best practices for data visualization and governance. You need 2-5+ years in analytics engineering or BI development, strong SQL and dbt expertise, proficiency with BI tools like Looker or Tableau, and familiarity with modern data stacks (Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.), plus solid data storytelling skills and understanding of medallion architecture and data governance. The role is remote-optional across the US with a salary range of $130k–$155k depending on location and experience, plus comprehensive benefits including 401(k) matching, health coverage, generous parental leave (12-20 weeks), and a $100 monthly work-from-home stipend. A notable requirement: all team members are expected to actively develop AI literacy and use AI tools to enhance productivity as part of Axios' core operational philosophy.

Axios, a growth-focused media company, is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team building and operating modern platforms that support their scaled technology infrastructure. You'll serve as a player-coach managing a backend or full-stack engineering team, staying close to the code while driving technical direction, execution, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design. Key responsibilities include contributing directly to production code, removing blockers, establishing code quality standards, integrating AI-assisted development workflows, and coaching engineers toward greater ownership and autonomy. You'll need 3–7 years leading engineering teams with strong backend/full-stack fundamentals, system design judgment, product instinct, AI fluency, and a track record of raising team capabilities through honest feedback and clear communication. Axios offers remote-optional work, competitive salary ($185K–$220K depending on location), comprehensive benefits including robust health coverage and generous parental leave, and an explicit commitment to AI literacy across the organization. A standout requirement: deep comfort with agentic workflows and AI-assisted development isn't just preferred—it's foundational to how the team will operate.

Axios is hiring a Managing Director of Expansion & Growth to lead a distributed sales team responsible for driving multi-market revenue growth across their local news markets. The role requires 10+ years of digital media sales experience, proven team leadership at scale, and expertise in consultative selling and CRM discipline. Compensation is $114k–$141k with variable commission based on sales targets. Remote within the US.

Reporter, Axios Local (Mesa/Scottsdale) is a journalism/editorial role at Axios. The position focuses on covering local news, authoring twice-weekly newsletters, reporting on Maricopa County, and building a local news presence. Salary range is $60k–$90k, well below James' target compensation.

Axios Media (Events Operations team) seeks an Associate to support day-to-day logistics, execution, and coordination for live/virtual/hybrid events. Responsibilities include event planning, guest list management, vendor coordination, administrative support, and on-site event execution. On-site in Washington DC with travel for in-person events. Coordinator-level operations role.

Associate Director, Client Partnerships at Axios Media (news/media company). Manage client partnerships, new business development, account management. DC Metro or NYC Metro area; listed as remote-optional, but salary range suggests location-dependent ($67k–$90k). Responsibilities: sales strategy, client engagement, partnership management, event attendance—not software engineering. **Location ambiguity: remote-optional designation unclear if fully US-remote.