Senior Director of Audience & Community (Contract)

About this role

Remote with Required On-Site Presence in Los Angeles (April 4th - 6th, 2026)
Bully Pulpit International is an outcomes agency made up of strategists, data scientists, and artists. We come from politics, brands, and government and we communicate without barriers and measure what matters. We have more than 400 team members in six countries and thirteen offices — Berlin, Brussels, Chicago, D.C., London, Los Angeles, New York, Oslo, San Francisco, and Zürich. We apply our unique expertise across strategic communications, public affairs, research, and digital marketing to create sophisticated and customized strategies that make change possible for both American and European clients.

About the Convening:
A Day of Unreasonable Conversation (UC) is an invitation-only annual summit which serves as a trusted, curated space designed to foster honest, nuanced, and critical discourse on the most urgent issues of our time. The gathering bridges the gap between the entertainment industry and social impact sectors. It connects "culture shapers"—influential television writers, showrunners, producers, executives, and digital storytellers who are literally writing the script for the world—with frontline changemakers, advocates, philanthropists, and issue experts.

The core mission of UC is to "unlock progress through the power of stories". In a deeply polarized moment where trust in traditional media is at a record low, the event aims to spark writers' rooms with new ideas and give creators the tools to drive meaningful change. UC challenges storytellers to complicate the narrative by moving beyond flat tropes and oversimplified binaries to explore the systemic complexities of our time. Ultimately, the goal is to bring greater nuance, empathy, and truth to the stories that shape public perception.

UC is grounded in the belief that culture is the multiplier for change at scale. Because culture sits upstream of policy and politics, it is where people already are. Even in times of deep fracture when people stop listening to experts or political parties, they still listen to stories. By bringing storytellers and problem-solvers together, UC seeks to turn stage-side insights into long-term creative collaborations that shift culture on screen and beyond.

A Day of Unreasonable Conversation is founded and produced by the social impact agency Propper Daley x Bully Pulpit International (BPI). The event relies on cross-sector collaboration and is fully funded by philanthropy.
Requirements
We’re hiring a Senior Director of Audience & Community, reporting directly to the Executive Director, to build and steward the community at the heart of A Day of Unreasonable Conversation. This person will own the full audience function—from strategy and curation through CRM, outreach, guest experience, day-of execution, and long-term relationship building. We’re looking for someone who sees the audience as a strategic asset and a living network, not a static guest list, and who can build and run this function with real authority and minimal oversight.
While the Day of Unreasonable Conversation is the community's annual gathering, this role is also responsible for activating that community throughout the year through small convenings (Evenings of Unreasonable Conversations), fellowships, editorial touchpoints, and ongoing relationship stewardship that keeps people connected between convenings.
Curation matters as much as headcount. We want a room with genuine diversity across perspectives, creative backgrounds, and positions in the industry. That means thinking carefully about what each person’s pr

What You’ll Do
Strategy & Curation

• Own the audience composition strategy. Curate a room of approximately 500 guests that brings together the entertainment industry and the social impact sector. The audience should reflect both the trusted relationships UC has built over time and the creators, executives, organizations, and changemakers whose work is most relevant to the cultural conversation in the year of the convening. Every year’s room should feel intentional, current, and additive.

• Lead the audience strategy for three Evenings of Unreasonable Conversations, curating intimate gatherings that introduce new voices, deepen relationships within the existing community, and intentionally funnel participants into the annual Day of Unreasonable Conversation.

• Entertainment side: Writers and showrunners, producers and directors, network and studio executives who greenlight content, digital creators and online storytellers reflecting how culture is created and distributed today, and industry gatekeepers including agents, managers, and publicists—who shape which stories and talent reach audiences.

• Social impact side: Frontline activists, researchers, policy experts, nonprofit and foundation leaders, and people with lived experience who bring subject-matter expertise and real-world perspective into the room.

• Own audience strategy beyond “filling the room.” Build a year-round community, not a one-day guest list. Define the audience function as a pipeline into fellowships, future convenings, and ongoing engagement, with clear goals for room composition, ideological and sector diversity, cultural influence, and long-term relationship building.

• Build and maintain the ecosystem map. Create and steward a living map of aligned organizations (studios, networks, production companies, nonprofits, advocacy groups, foundations, agencies, etc.), maintaining relationships throughout the year so UC is continuously expanding and strengthening its community rather than rebuilding it each event cycle.

• Develop audience engagement strategies for different community segments, including returning attendees, fellows, funders, creative leaders, first-time participants, and strategic partners, ensuring each group has meaningful opportunities to engage with UC throughout the year.

• Run a tiered outreach and room-design strategy. Execute a Tier…