Jobs at NPR

Coordinates enterprise-wide transformation initiatives by managing project roadmaps, timelines, milestones, dependencies, risks, deliverables, dashboards, and status reporting. The role connects cross-functional NPR and NPM teams, facilitates governance meetings, supports leadership, mitigates bottlenecks, and ensures initiatives remain on schedule across technical, financial, and station-relations stakeholders.

Legal externs support NPR’s Office of the General Counsel by conducting legal research, preparing memoranda, contracts, and other documents, participating in client and regulatory meetings, observing proceedings, and attending legal training. The role spans commercial, nonprofit tax, governance, technology, intellectual property, regulatory, constitutional, employment, and labor matters. Applicants must be current law students and secure academic credit for fall or spring placements.

Legal externs assist senior counsel with copyright research, fair use determinations, audio and video content evaluations, permissions agreements, licensing assessments, and rights management. The role is a full-time, summer, for-credit or stipend-eligible opportunity for current second- or third-year law students with coursework and knowledge in copyright law and fair use.

Leads and develops a team of mobile software engineers building NPR applications. Responsibilities include coaching, hiring, Agile delivery, technical planning, code and design reviews, workflow automation, production incident response, vendor coordination, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires prior hands-on mobile engineering experience, proficiency in native iOS or Android technologies, release infrastructure, Git, and Agile/Scrum practices.

Lead a data engineering team building and operating NPR's data warehouse, pipelines, BI, and personalization systems. Responsibilities include people leadership, hiring, cross-functional collaboration, Agile delivery, technical design and code review, automation for developer experience, incident response, and vendor management.

Serve as the functional bridge between NPR business stakeholders and Salesforce technical teams: elicit and document requirements, author user stories and acceptance criteria, analyze impacts and dependencies, collaborate on solution design, lead UAT and training, coordinate project delivery, and promote governance and platform best practices to optimize NPR's Salesforce ecosystem.

Lead design and implementation of real-time, event-driven data ecosystems powering personalization. Define self-service data infrastructure, governance, and architecture standards. Provide cross-team technical oversight, mentor engineers, ensure production reliability and cost optimization, participate in deployments and on-call, and collaborate on roadmaps and OKRs.