Jobs at Axios

Staff Software Engineer leading architecture, hands-on development, and delivery of reliable frontend, backend, API, data, and production systems across multiple teams. The role drives multi-quarter initiatives, AI-enabled engineering practices, system scalability, security, observability, incident response, technical standards, mentorship, and alignment between technical investments and product outcomes.

Leads engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, delivery practices, and vendor selection across Axios products, platforms, workflows, and internal systems. Develops engineering managers and senior technical leaders, strengthens planning and quality, aligns engineering capacity with business priorities, and partners with executive, product, design, newsroom, and business stakeholders. The role also drives AI adoption in software development and defines engineering standards, benchmarks, and operating practices.

Leads Axios Product, Design, and AI Enablement organizations; establishes company-wide product strategy, prioritization, governance, and decision rights. Partners with senior leaders and the CTO to identify opportunities, evaluate AI-enabled ideas, and turn successful experiments into durable products and shared platforms. Oversees product portfolio management, strengthens product leadership, and guides development across editorial, revenue, operational, and consumer-facing products.

Produces Axios original video content end to end, from ideation, scripting, and shooting through editing, publishing, promotion, and audience growth. Develops treatments, shot lists, scripts, and production plans; collaborates with editorial, social, audience, revenue, talent, vendors, and production partners; and manages multiple deadlines. Creates platform-native content for YouTube and digital channels using audience insights, search, retention, and performance trends.

Report on Washington, D.C. news, lifestyle, sports and local events while authoring a daily Axios newsletter. The reporter will develop sources, break news, produce conversational Smart Brevity-style content, use AI tools to improve reporting and production, and help shape Axios Local's evolving product. Success requires strong local-market knowledge, entrepreneurial initiative, deadline experience, curiosity, and the ability to create compelling scoops and insights for local readers.

Own and grow a local sales territory for Axios by building outbound pipelines, acquiring new advertisers, closing business, and expanding existing partnerships. Lead the full sales cycle, develop territory and category strategies, exceed revenue targets, sell to senior decision-makers, and coordinate deal execution across internal teams. The role focuses on local and regional advertisers within the digital media and news industry and includes representing Axios in-market with willingness to travel.

The reporter will cover local news in Dallas, co-author newsletters, leverage AI for reporting, and engage with the community.

The Software Engineer will design and implement reliable services and APIs using Golang and Python, ensuring performance, scalability, and system reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The Reporter will cover local news in Colorado Springs, create newsletters, build sources, and leverage AI for reporting while maintaining a conversational writing style.

Lead optimization of subscription, registration, and paywall experiences through A/B testing and experimentation. Own landing page and first-party data capture testing, SEO/GEO conversion strategies, onsite personalization (Segment), and Piano platform performance. Partner cross-functionally to build a prioritized experimentation roadmap, establish conversion benchmarks, and scale optimization processes to grow subscriptions and improve conversion funnels.

Monitor breaking news in real time, write quick-turn spot stories, flag developments for reporters and editors, collaborate across teams, and maintain a Smart Brevity writing style while using AI tools and social platforms to produce timely digital journalism.

As an Analytics Engineer at Axios, you'll design and maintain data products and visualizations, improving decision-making through actionable insights.

Report on the business and capital shaping the defense industry: breaking news on VC, startups, M&A, public companies, procurement, and policy; write a bi-weekly newsletter; act as public authority on stage; collaborate across teams to produce timely, concise coverage.

Cover San Francisco for Axios Local: co-author a daily newsletter, break news, build and use strong local sources, experiment with AI in reporting and newsletter production, write in Axios’ Smart Brevity style, meet fast deadlines, and help shape the local product and coverage strategy.

Cover Houston for Axios Local: co-author a daily newsletter, break news, develop local sources, write in Smart Brevity style, experiment with AI for reporting, and help shape product and coverage strategy.

Manage post-sale account relationships for growth clients: onboard, execute and monitor digital advertising campaigns across Axios products, coordinate cross-functional teams, pull reporting for optimizations, identify upsell/renewal opportunities, and deliver exceptional client service to drive retention and revenue.