About the Role
Wirecutter is looking for a Lead Editor to help shape and steer our coverage of large cleaning and kitchen appliances and vacuums. You will work with the Writers on the Appliances team to make sure assignments stay on track, follow Wirecutter standards and processes, and reflect the information and news that is most relevant to our readers.
As lead editor, you will report directly to the team's Senior Editor. A deep interest in thoughtful service-driven journalism — as well as in large appliances and vacuums and how readers interact with them in their daily lives — is a must.
This is a hybrid role based in New York City, with an expectation to work in our Long Island City office.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the senior editor to develop the strategy for the Appliances beat, assign projects to staff writers, and write
- Project manage guides, shortform articles, and other content with different writers ensuring stories uphold the editorial standards we've established
- Collaborate with fact checkers, copy editors, and producers
- Contribute original ideas to test planning, suggest creative reporting strategies, and challenge writers' assumptions
- Keep current on the large appliances and vacuum beats, paying attention to industry news and trends
- Use data to support potential story ideas and track performance; work with our SEO team, audience and discovery teams, and editorial managers to plan new content
- Work with our affiliate team to resolve stock issues on recommendations; our operations team on product orders and testing plans; our audience team to respond to reader feedback and questions; and our photo editors to coordinate photography plans
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience working at a media company,
- 1+ years of experience editing writers
- 2+ years of experience working with SEO from an editorial perspective and a sense of how to use web analytics data to help make editorial decisions
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience with service journalism and product reviews
- 2+ years experience working with remote teams and collaborative software
- Experience creating test plans for product evaluation,
- Experience collaborating with an art director and/or photo editor to present content and express complex ideas using visualizations such as charts, graphs, or infographics
- Strong category knowledge, with the ability to discern what's essential and what's unnecessary in your beats; passion balanced by skepticism of marketing claims and unproven ideas
Locations
Even with our office in New York City, Wirecutter remains a highly remote-friendly culture and is proud to employ incredible people across the country. Right now, we are eligible to hire in the following states: CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, ME, MA, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA.
Please include your résumé/CV, a cover letter, and any writing samples you may want to submit with your application. You can only upload one file in the “Résumé/CV” box, so you should combine and upload your résumé, cover letter, and any other materials as one file.
This is a union position as classified by the News Guild of New York.
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The annual base pay range for this role is between:
$88,740 - $95,000 USD
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