Associate Commerce Editor, InStyle

About Your Role

The InStyle commerce team is seeking an Associate Commerce Editor to update and edit beauty and fashion-related product roundups and reviews. The ideal candidate is a digitally savvy editor who is equally passionate about beauty and fashion products. 

As the site’s Associate Commerce Editor, you will be responsible for editing content from our network of freelancers and in-house writers, updating existing content with fresh data or new product releases, publishing new content and updates in our CMS, and tracking and reporting the success of all editorial efforts. This job requires both analytical and editorial skills to help you provide readers with trusted recommendations tailored to their budgets and needs. This role reports to a Senior Editor. 

About Your Contributions

• Help write, edit, and publish new commerce content on InStyle, using competitor analysis, marketplace knowledge, and internal Lab and home testing data to back your editorial approach

• Make regular updates to existing content based on out of stocks, traffic and revenue performance

• Report revenue numbers within the team and to stakeholders.

• Participate in editorial meetings and pitch ideas for new content

• Stay current on trends and new products

• Track and use performance data to adjust editorial strategy and programming efforts 

• Work with editorial counterparts to curate and promote our best content via newsletters, across site landing pages, and on social platforms

• Communicate effectively throughout the organization on goals and objectives

• Coordinate publishing product testing assets; assist in product testing if available.

About You

• 2+ years writing or editing experience at an online publisher, ideally in the beauty & style space

• A product enthusiast who spends time shopping and obsessing over purchases

• Passionate about beauty and fashion

• Detail-oriented and deadline-focused with solid editing and writing skills, as well as a deep understanding of what works on the web

• Strong copywriter, capable of writing engaging, lively headlines and blurbs, all the while keeping the InStyle voice, values, style, and audience in mind

• Proven aptitude for communicating and collaborating with both remote editorial workers and in-house editorial team members

• Self-starter who wants to work for a growing company

• Proven aptitude for communicating and collaborating with both remote editorial workers and in-house editorial team members

• College degree required

We expect Associate Editors to apply these competencies to their role:

Decision Quality: Make good and timely decisions that keep the needs of their vertical moving forward. This may happen in the absence of complete information but one may call upon analysis, experience, and judgement to make these decisions.

Collaborate: Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Balance own interests while being fair to others, partners with others to get work done, and credits others for their contributions/accomplishments.

Action Oriented: Readily take action on new challenges, identify and seize new opportunities. Display a can-do attitude and step up to handle tough issues.

Communicate Effectively: Deliver effective communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Be an attentive listener, adapt to your audience, provide timely and helpful information, and encourage open expression of diverse ideas.

Resourcefulness: Secure and deploy resources effectively and efficiently. Apply resources to get things done, manage multiple activities, and get the most out of limited resources.

Part of the Commerce Team spirit means embodying these core competencies:

Manage Ambiguity: Deal comfortably with change and can decide/act without the total picture. Remains calm and productive while dealing constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes

Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. 

Self-Development: Actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels. Show a personal commitment to continuously improving, accepting stretch opportunities, and making the most of available development resources.