Podcast Host - Bengaluru, India - The Ken

The Ken
The Ken
Verified Company
Bengaluru, India

2 weeks ago

Deepika Kaur

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Deepika Kaur

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Description
This role hosts one or more podcasts at _The Ken_


Why this role exists at The Ken
Narrative journalism is _The Ken's_ raison d'être, our reason for being. Since 2016 we've been known for our path breaking longform business stories and topical newsletters. We're equally ambitious about narrative-driven audio storytelling too.

We produce multiple original podcasts that straddle unique spaces in the Indian business, technology and entrepreneurial ecosystems today.

These include Cost to Company, a weekly show that brings to life the most pressing topics affecting workplaces and careers; Daybreak, a thrice-weekly news show that narrates the biggest business stories worth understanding; and First Principles, a fortnightly leadership show that features deep and candid conversations with India's best known founders and executives.

We have more shows on our 2023 slate.

Podcast hosts are the souls of our shows. They are the storytellers. It is their voice and personality that subscribers and listeners get attached to. They are the voice of the listener in conversations and interviews.

And finally, it is the hosts who are the first and last true believers in their shows.

Working together with the rest of the podcast team, the host ensures that their shows are always interesting, well-produced and habit-forming.

They obsess over its every detail, its every promise, and its every feedback till they are satisfied.


Who you are
You are a curious, driven, and constantly evolving professional who has worked as a podcast or radio host. You have a clear, friendly and well-trained voice.

You are able to hold conversations on a range of topics with people, regardless of their age, experience or knowledge, because curiosity and interest constantly drive you.

You have most likely been a journalist, or have worked in a newsroom or journalistic setting.

This has helped you develop the very vital skill of telling true stories - stories that are based on facts, sources, research and reporting, while still retaining the essence of being stories.


You work best in teams, drawing on the complementary skills of your colleagues to take simple ideas to tightly produced narratives.

Because, you realize, podcasting (and journalism) is a team sport.


Your team


You will be part of _The Ken's_ podcast team which currently comprises multiple podcast hosts, podcast producers and an audio engineer.

You will host (or co-host) one of our existing or upcoming shows.

The most important relationship for you within this team will be with the producer and co-host (if applicable).

You will closely partner them to own up all aspects of a show, from ideation and scripting to scheduling and production.


  • The Ken_ is fundamentally a teamsfirst organization, so your success will depend on your ability to form deep and meaningful workplace relationships with your team.

Other teams you will work with


In addition to the Podcasts team, you will work closely with colleagues in Editorial, Marketing and Products to continually elevate the value of podcasts to subscribers and listeners alike.


  • The Ken_ is a creative and collaborative organisation. We encourage crossfunctional, leaderless teams driven by shared purposes.

Who you will report to

What a typical week might look like


Your week might start with a standup meeting where the entire team gets together and lays out the work for the week.

In addition, if new stories are being pitched, then you're working with your producer and co-host to make sure that the ideas are compelling.

Together, you're already halfway through the research and script for one of the ideas discussed last week, so you take the team through it.

A few colleagues offer tips to help you sharpen it.


After the team meeting, you do a huddle with your producer and co-host to bounce off some of the new ideas each of you had.

You call up the sources you had lined up to meet and interview this week. You consider whether it's best to record over the internet or at the office in person.

You ask a reporter colleague for some contacts in the electric vehicle space to reach out to as potential sources.

You do secondary research for your current story by reading up online articles on the topic.

You also sneak in a discussion over coffee with a colleague who writes on the space, to learn a bit more.

You use it to tweak your current script.

You conduct multiple interviews with sources and guests for the next episode.

You wonder whether a field recording at a buzzing cafe will add to the overall storytelling or distract from it.

As the week draws to a close, you ask for feedback from colleagues and subscribers on last week's episode.

Most of them are positive, but a few critical ones force you to rethink the line of your next episode.


What this role will be directly responsible for

You will be responsible across four broad heads:

  • Story pipeline: the quality of ideas and pitches that make
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