Founded by award-winning podcast producers, StoryMill partners with reputable brands to create audio programs that engage, inform, and entertain new and existing audiences. StoryMill not only delivers award-winning podcasts, but complete digital and social campaigns to drive audience growth.

Steve Hein

Founder/CEO

Steve has been working in the podcast space for the past six years. Most recently at NBC Entertainment where he served at SVP Digital Content and supervised a slate of podcasts based on NBC’s primetime programming. Podcasts included The Good Place: The Podcast (Webby winner, EW, NYT, NPR “Best of” Lists), Brooklyn 99: The Podcast, The Songland Podcast (Winner of the 2020 iHeart Best Branded Podcast) and Law & Order SVU: The Squadroom. Additionally, while at NBC Steven earned three Emmy nominations for short-form series and digital campaigns.

Prior to NBC, Steven worked as Senior Vice President of Legendary Digital Networks where he worked with the Nerdist Podcast Network. 

Earlier in his career he was a Vice President of Fox Digital Studio at 20th Century Fox. He was a producer on Sony and Sam Raimi’s Boogeyman trilogy, won the SXSW Audience Award for the feature film Brotherhood, and won a Cannes Golden Lion as a producer on Reebok’s Terry Tate Office Linebacker.

A selection of NBC's slate under Hein

  • The Good Place

  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine

  • Law & Order SVU

  • Songland

  • Manifest

  • American Ninja Warrior

  • A.P. Bio

  • Trial & Error

  • Days of Our Lives