Money Writer, Banking, Retirement Remote USA
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description:
Personal Finance / Money Staff Writer
Buy Side from WSJ
About Buy Side from WSJ:
Buy Side from The Wall Street Journal is Dow Joness independent reviews and recommendations site dedicated to helping readers make informed choices about how to spend save and invest their money.
About the Role:
Were looking for a curious insightful journalist to join our Personal Finance (Money) team. Youll cover the financial decisions that shape readers lives from budgeting borrowing and saving to navigating work retirement and family milestones. This role can be fully remote within the U.S. or based in our NYC bureau.
You Will:
Report and write engaging service-driven stories that make complex financial topics clear and relatable.
Cover areas including banking retirement investing mortgages taxes credit cards student loans and insurance.
Collaborate across teams to plan coverage that anticipates readers needs and aligns with Buy Side and WSJ priorities.
Uphold the highest standards of accuracy sourcing and journalistic integrity.
Work closely with editors and partners to deliver content thats timely useful and trustworthy.
You Have:
3 years of experience reporting on personal finance or consumer economics.
The successful candidate will have extensive experience reporting on banking retirement and financial advice and familiarity with home equity investing mortgages taxes and budgeting.
A record of producing distinctive accurate and engaging stories.
Strong collaboration and communication skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Understanding of SEO and audience engagement strategies; experience with affiliate or commerce content is a plus.
What Youll Bring:
A passion for helping readers make confident financial choices.
Experience demystifying money topics with empathy authority and clarity.
Commitment to inclusive storytelling that reflects the diverse financial realities of our audience.
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Dow Jones - Wealth & InvestingJob Category:
Editorial/JournalismUnion Status:
Non-Union rolePay Range: 70000 - 85000We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidates experience industry knowledge location technical and communication skills and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract engage and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary for bonus eligible roles targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles in addition to cash compensation the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package with a variety of physical health retirement and savings caregiving emotional wellbeing transportation and other benefits including elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..
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- Copywriting
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- Writing Skills
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