Senior Editor, Simply Recipes & Serious Eats

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Simply Recipes and Serious Eats are seeking a detail-oriented food-loving Senior Editor to join our this role you will lead the editing development and publication of articles recipes and recipe roundups and serve as a top editor on content prior to publicationensuring accuracy clarity and high editorial standards across all content. Youll collaborate with cross-functional partners to pitch assign and edit stories guiding them through the full production workflow.

This role is ideal for someone with experience creating and editing digital food content who brings strong culinary knowledge sharp editorial judgment and a rigorous curious approach to research. The ideal candidate is self-motivated nimble and passionate about producing engaging trustworthy content for home cooks.

Hybrid 3x a week- (list out city)

In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

About The Positions Contributions:

Weight % Accountabilities Actions and Expected Measurable Results

• 30%: Collaborate cross-functionally with editorial art social and email teams to develop and promote content.

• 30%: Top edit and approve content prior to publication ensuring it meets brand voice journalistic standards and editorial quality benchmarks.

• 20%: Track content performance audience trends and competitors; use insights to inform pitches assignments and editorial strategy.

• 10%: Contribute to editorial planning and broader team goals.

• 10%: Recipe development and article writing dependent on availability.

The Roles Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience

Experience:

• 5 years of professional experience in editorial writing and editing with a strong focus on food journalism or culinary content.

• Culinary experience including culinary school professional cooking and/or recipe editing and writing a plus.

Specific Knowledge Skills Certifications and Abilities:

• A passion for food and cooking with an interest and drive to understand why and how things work on a technical level.

• Strong writing editing and copyediting skills with a rigorous journalistic foundation and experience refining content into its strongest clearest form.

• A knack for storytelling and for helping writers hone their voices.

• Ability to assess creative quality and brand fit and provide constructive feedback to writers and other editors.

• Excellent research and fact-checking skills with a commitment to accuracy and evidence-based content.

• Exceptional organizational and projectmanagement skills; able to juggle multiple priorities in a fastpaced environment; values and establishes clear processes; strong attention to detail and accuracy.

• Adaptable and collaborative approach to new projects and challenges.

• Comfort with sharing ownership giving and receiving feedback and working within a team structure.

• Strong understanding of brand voice and ability to create content that resonates with the Simply Recipes and Serious Eats audiences.

• Able to apply data and insights to guide editorial decisions and strategy.

• Strong communicator in a remote environment (Slack Zoom).

• Experience with CMS platforms (e.g. WordPress) and standard tools (Google Docs Sheets Slides).

% Travel Required (Approximate): 5%

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The 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 People Incs total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses and short- and long-term incentives.In additionPeople Inc. 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 10-12 paid holidays annually and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents) all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. 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.