General Manager, Axios
Axios Local
$250-300k
News media company
Job no longer available
News media company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$250-300k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of digital media or mid-stage startup experience. Proven record of scaling businesses and managing large-scale operations
- Exceptional communicator who can represent Axios Local internally and externally
- Thrives in a cross-functional environment
- Has experience at the intersection of business, editorial and technology
- Able to make decisions fast amid constant trade-offs
- Savvy at leading with both authority and influence
- Strong bias toward action and accountability
What the job involves
- The ideal candidate is a mix of entrepreneur and operator who thinks urgently and creatively about scale
- Lead vision for a technical and operational system – with automation at its core – to drive scale into the hundreds
- Test content and business partnerships that strengthen Axios Local’s business model and product
- Push existing, more mature cities into margin-boosters that fund expansion and experimentation elsewhere in Axios Local
- Develop short- and long-term plans that achieve our financial, editorial and growth goals
- Own the P&L for Axios Local, including investment needs and accountability
- Oversee cross-functional operation of leaders including editorial, revenue, membership, marketing, product/tech and comms
- Note: these leaders will directly report into their functional leads, i.e. CRO, Editor-in-Chief, CTO
- Work closely with CTO on a tech and automation roadmap that unlocks rapid scale
- Lead evolution of our products for readers - including newsletter, social, events, membership and more - in ways that align with monetization
- Continuously iterate on organization structures and headcount that achieve our goals, in the leanest way possible
- Stay connected to the landscape of local media. Be expert on new developments, collaboration opportunities and competition
- Seek and lead relationships with major partners that can enhance the business (i.e. current deal with OpenAI)
- Drive a culture of speed, experimentation and excellence
Our take
Axios is a digital news site covering business, tech, politics, and media trends, with a focus on smart and efficient coverage. Much like rival comparable sites The Economist and Politico, it’s also diversified its media to include podcasts, newsletters, and a mobile app. Whilst it remains a major national and international news outlet, it’s also pursuing a new avenue to help shore up its position: local news.
Local news outlets have been in sharp decline over recent years: it’s too costly, with too little revenue. Axios’ plan is to opt instead for local newsletters. They’re highly advertiser-friendly, and the model itself is exceptionally scalable. So Axios may succeed where traditional efforts by other outlets like The Huffington Post (and countless local outfits) have failed.
Axios was previously held up as an exception to the mergers and acquisitions other news outlets were having to undergo to weather the decline of print media. However, in order to fund the expansion into local news, Axios has been acquired by the global conglomerate (and previous investor in the company) Cox Enterprises. This is good news - Cox Enterprises owns and protects local newspapers in Ohio, and looks set to be a hands-off and values-aligned new Axios owner.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$27m
SERIES C
Nov 2017
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $57m
Company benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
- Dental and vision coverage
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
- One mental health day per quarter
- Annual learning and development stipend
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services through Headspace
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
- A strong and positive work environment
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
Company HQ
Radnor - Fort Myer Heights, Arlington, VA
Leadership
Jim VandeHei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, they then went on to found Politico and serve a decade as its CEO.
Mike Allen
(Co-Founder & Executive Editor)Spent nearly a decade as Politico's Chief White House correspondent before co-founding Axios in 2016.
Roy Schwartz
(Founder & President)CEO of Axios HQ. Spent time as a partner at The Gallup Organization, then as VP and ultimately CRO of Politico.
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