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Senior Editor News & TrendingJob Description
About The Position Major goals and objectives and location requirements
Simply Recipes is seeking a fulltime seniorlevel editor to join our team. This position will oversee Simply Recipes news and trending content and primary responsibilities include pitching assigning and editing articles and seeing them through the publication workflow. This position would be ideal for someone who has prior experience writing and editing food and cooking content for a digital publisher. This position reports to the Associate Editorial Director of Simply Recipes.
As a food website that reaches millions per month we have the duty and responsibility to create positive change. We are focusing our hiring efforts on diversity equity and inclusion and building a team that reflects our dedication to these principles at every level of our organization.
Remote
Inoffice Expectations: This position is fully remote with no inoffice requirements (might require coming into an office 1 or 2x a year)
Hybrid 3x a week (New York)
Inoffice Expectations: This position is hybrid inoffice with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.
About The Team The Team and/or Brand.
Simply Recipes is here to help you cook delicious meals with less stress and more joy. We offer recipes and cooking advice for home cooks by home cooks. Helping provide kitchen wins is the whole reason were here.
Simply Recipes was founded in 2003 by Elise Bauer as a home cooking blog to record her favorite family recipes. Today Simply Recipes has grown into an invaluable trusted resource for home cooks with more than 3000 tested recipes guides and meal plans and new content publishing daily. The site draws over 15 million readers each month from around the world employs a team of fulltime editors and is supported by a diverse group of recipe developers food writers recipe and product testers photographers and other creative professionals.
About The Positions Contributions:
Weight Accountabilities Actions and Expected Measurable Results
30 Help grow traffic and build brand cachet through clickable news and trending articles feature stories and editorial packages. Pitch assign edit and publish daily news and trending content for Simply Recipes. Optimize our news/trending content for news outlets (Google Discover Apple News etc) track and provide analytics on published content and suggest future strategies to grow traffic to this content.
20 Ideate pitch and collaborate with the Simply Recipes team on packages of content built around editorial tentpoles holidays heritage months and cultural moments. Assign edit and publish new content for these packages and/or work with editors assisting with this content creation. (This content includes recipes tips/education content commerce content and voicedriven essays.
15 Work with the Simply Recipes art department on imagery for daily content and content packages. Work with Simply Recipes social and email departments on promotion strategies for daily content and content packages.
15 Track and provide analytics on published content and suggest future strategies to grow our traffic to this content. Track current trends and competitors and apply learnings to pitches and assignments sharing ideas with the team on a regular basis.
10 Collaborate with the Simply Recipes team on editorial strategy and other editorial goals. Help build and manage a diverse group of expert writers who can cover food topics from a lens that impacts different communities.
10 Occasional article writing. Occasional appearances on social media and video content. Represent Simply Recipes in occasional PR appearances and campaigns.
The Roles Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements:
Education:
Bachelors degree or equivalent experience required. A degree in English Journalism or Creative Writing is preferred.
Experience:
35 years of experience developing editorial food content preferably for the web.
2 years experience editing food content and working with freelance writers
Must have experience specifically related to home cooking understand nuances surrounding sourcing and credibility and a deep understanding of what works on the web.
Specific Knowledge Skills Certifications and Abilities:
Simply Recipes is a servicedriven website dedicated to helping people of every background and skill level cook great meals for themselves and their families. Candidates should share this mission and feel a strong degree of compassion for the specific challenges facing home cooks (lack of time budget concerns dietary restrictions grocery store access lack of equipment etc).
A knack for storytelling and for helping writers hone their voices.
Strong visual skills particularly when formatting content for readability and when evaluating art/photography for publication.
An eagle eye for detail and a very high level of organization.
Experience working within a content management system (like Wordpress) MS Word and Google (Docs Sheets and Slides).
Experience tailoring content for Google Discover AN and various outlets preferred.
Strong copywriter capable of writing engaging lively headlines and descriptions within the Simply Recipes voice and brand guidelines.
Ability to assess creative quality and brand fit and give constructive feedback to writers and other editors.
Flexibility and collaborative work is a cornerstone for how our company operates. Candidates must have a growth mindset toward new projects and challenges and feel comfortable sharing ownership giving and receiving feedback and working within a team structure.
Simply Recipes is a remote team. Candidates must be adept at communicating and growing relationships over Slack and Zoom with only occasional inperson team gatherings.
Travel Required Approximate: 5
It is the policy of Dotdash Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. In addition the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.Accommodation requests can be made by emailing .
The Company participates in the federal EVerify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the EVerify program please click here: Range
Salary: New York: $75000.00 $90000.00 Remote US: $65000.00 $75000.00The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Merediths total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses and short and longterm incentives.In additionDotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits including medical dental vision prescription drug coverage unlimited paid time off (PTO) adoption or surrogate assistance donation matching tuition reimbursement basic life insurance basic accidental death & dismemberment supplemental life insurance supplemental accident insurance commuter benefits short term and long term disability health savings and flexible spending accounts family care benefits a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program 1012 paid holidays annually and generous paid parental leave (birthing and nonbirthing parents) all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance accident critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage life and disability insurance.
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