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Intro to Position NPR seeks an attorney to join our team representing nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations in complex governance and regulatory matters. The lawyer who joins our team will help a mission-driven organization embrace business opportunities while managing risk and ensuring compliance with NPR's legal obligations. The ideal candidate will have broad knowledge of nonprofit tax laws, experience advising on regulatory compliance, and a robust background in counseling publicly supported charities on matters of corporate governance, sponsorships, and fundraising. The role reports to the Associate General Counsel, who leads the Governance & Regulatory team, and will work closely with senior staff who support the NPR Board of Directors and the NPR Foundation Board of Trustees, as well as operational leads in Finance and Development. Application Instructions: In your cover letter, please describe a specific instance where you advised a tax-exempt organization or complex membership organization on a high-stakes corporate governance or regulatory compliance issue. Responsibilities Regulatory Oversight: Act as a key legal advisor on federal and state nonprofit law and compliance. IRS Compliance Monitoring: Monitor IRS regulations and provide timely, accurate legal counsel on implications for various business transactions. Contractual Drafting: Structure, draft, and negotiate complex agreements, including transactional contracts, grant agreements, and donor gift agreements. Fiduciary Litigation: Represent NPR in probate matters and trust/fiduciary litigation. Media & Broadcast Review: Review broadcast and corporate sponsorship opportunities for legal and regulatory compliance. Agency Compliance: Ensure ongoing compliance with FCC, FTC, IRS, and other relevant regulatory bodies. Board & Governance Support: Provide corporate governance support for the NPR Board of Directors and NPR Foundation Board of Trustees. Legal Research: Perform exhaustive legal research and draft clear, concise internal memoranda. Outside Counsel Management: Supervise outside counsel on corporate governance and specialized tax law matters. The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time. Minimum Qualifications Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school. Bar membership in good standing in the District of Columbia, or eligibility to waive into the D.C. Bar. 5+ years of professional experience representing nonprofit, tax-exempt, or complex membership organizations in corporate governance and regulatory matters. Fluency in state and federal tax laws, including regulations governing private foundations and 501(c)(4) organizations. Experience practicing before (or working at) the IRS, including drafting administrative pleadings, audits, agency comments, rulemaking, and executing IRS Forms 990 and 1023. Working knowledge of FCC, FTC, and/or FEC regulatory environments and best practices relating to communications. Demonstrated experience with planned giving, estate administration, and fiduciary litigation involving annuities, donor-advised funds, and charitable trusts. Preferred Qualifications Experience practicing within the IRS Office of Chief Counsel (TE/GE). Direct experience drafting and administering complex trusts and estates featuring charitable beneficiaries. Experience advising multi-tiered, federated membership associations or national public media entities. Education Requirements Bachelor’s degree and a J.D. from an accredited law school are required. Work Location & Requirements NPR Hybrid-Permitted: This is a hybrid permitted role. Some aspects of this role require duties better performed at an NPR facility. The employee will be required to be in the office at the Washington, D.C. location at least 10 days a year. The employee must also reside in the D.C. Metropolitan Area.  Job Type This is a full-time, exempt position. Compensation & Benefits Salary Range: The U.S.-based anticipated salary range for this opportunity is $150,000 - $165,000 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all U.S. locations. NPR Benefits: NPR provides comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees. Does this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you. #LI-Hybrid

Intro to Position A Senior Software Architect exemplifies technical expertise and excellence at NPR. They work with leaders and cross-discipline team(s) to guide technology decisions, design scalable solutions, pipelines, services, or tools that support NPR and its Member Station Network. They are critical to shaping long term strategic technology decisions. Architects lead and coordinate across our most technically challenging projects, those generally impacting multiple teams and/or product lines at a time. They partner with stakeholders and multiple team(s) to ensure successful outcomes. They lead strategy, solutioning, and collaboration of complex problems across a variety of areas such as workflow, architecture, quality, collaboration, tooling and more.  This role will be responsible for leading the data lifecycle and infrastructure that power audience facing products, including the collection, refinement & transformations, and activation of the data. This is a union-represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with NABET-CWA DMU. Responsibilities Architect Personalization & Data Systems: Lead the design, optimization, and scaling of real-time data ecosystems and event-driven pipelines that power personalized audience experiences across NPR digital platforms. Establish Self-Service Infrastructure: Design robust frameworks, governance standards, and APIs that enable engineering, analytics, and marketing teams to autonomously leverage data and personalization tools. Guide Technology Strategy & Standards: Evaluate emerging technologies, establish modern architecture standards (including medallion architecture and orchestration frameworks), and drive adoption across product lines. Technical Oversight & Governance: Provide technical direction and cross-divisional oversight for complex, high-impact engineering projects impacting multiple teams and systems. Collaborative Solutioning & Planning: Partner with product managers, engineering leaders, and stakeholders during OKR planning, roadmap development, and technical proposal reviews. Code & Architecture Quality: Mentor engineering peers through substantive design reviews, code standards definition, security/privacy alignment (GDPR/CPPA), and cost-optimization practices. Production Excellence & Operational Support: Participate in system deployments, establish CI/CD best practices, troubleshoot production incidents, and join the engineering on-call rotation after initial onboarding. Team Growth & Inclusion: Assist in onboarding new technical staff, participate in inclusive hiring practices, and proactively contribute to continuous process improvements within scrum environments. The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time. Minimum Qualifications 5+ years of experience designing and leading solutioning and architecture planning in a multi-team environment. 5+ years of experience designing systems with scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency as first-class concerns. 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc) and infrastructure as code (eg. Terraform). 5+ years of experience building applications that span multiple platforms such as web, mobile, voice, API’s, and system integrations using modern languages and frameworks. Demonstrated experience integrating with external API's / Services. Ability to design and lead practical technical design. Demonstrated expertise in designing real-time integrations and data-centric applications & services that power personalized user experiences at scale. Expertise in data governance strategy and implementation. Familiarity with medallion architecture. Fluent in Node/TypeScript, Python. Experience building consumers facing high traffic applications and related concerns - SEO, Browser performance, CDN configurations etc. Experience with Data Privacy and Compliance (GDPR, CPPA etc) concerns. Experience with test and development automation. Experience working with a version control system (Git preferred). Experience with cost-optimization & controls, forecasting, and evaluating trade offs for high availability systems. Preferred Qualifications Experience with large-scale data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Snowflake) or medallion architecture implementations. Familiarity with Machine Learning architectures, distributed search engines (Elasticsearch), or NoSQL databases (DynamoDB). History of contributing to open-source software projects or public technical communities. Required Skills/Competencies System Architecture & Design: Deep understanding of distributed systems, event tracking, and API integration design. Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Ability to guide cross-functional teams and synthesize technical feedback into actionable designs. Data Strategy & Governance: Practical knowledge of end-to-end data lifecycles, refinement, and activation. Problem Solving & Resiliency: Strong operational mindset for diagnosing high-traffic production challenges and optimizing cloud costs. Inclusive Communication: Skill in explaining complex architecture concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Work Location & Requirements NPR Remote-Permitted: This is a remote-permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, D.C. office, but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves. You will have the option of working (a) remotely from a location of your choosing within the United States that is supported by NPR; (b) on-site at an NPR facility, based on the availability of desks and approval from NPR; or (c) a combination of both. Regardless of where you choose to work from, you may be expected to travel to other locations from time to time to perform the duties of your position. Job Type This is a full-time, exempt position. Compensation Salary Range: The U.S. based anticipated salary range for this opportunity is $184,758.33 - $211,081.45 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations. NPR Benefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees.  Does this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you. #LI-REMOTE