Senior Commerce Editor, News & Deals, Food Group

| New York, NY, USA | Hybrid
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Dotdash Meredith is looking for a highly motivated and digitally savvy Senior Commerce Editor to join the news/deals food team, working across EatingWell, Serious Eats, Allrecipes, and Food & Wine. The ideal candidate should have past editing and commerce experience, be a creative and quick problem solver, and have a passion for cooking, nutrition, and kitchen products. Culinary school and/or professional culinary experience or qualifications are a plus.

As Senior Commerce Editor, you will be responsible for collaborating with the Editorial Director to edit timely food-related shopping content, onboard and manage freelancer relationships, and manage a small team of staff and contract writers. You will also assist with planning and executing coverage for large sale events, such as Prime Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, as well as track and analyze performance to implement ways to improve monetization over time.

This job requires both analytical and editorial skills to ensure our news/deals commerce content is accurate, inclusive, comprehensive, and accessible to all readers.

About Your Contributions:

  • Assign, edit, and publish stories with help from a dedicated team of full-time editors and writers

  • Work with the Editorial Director to manage an editorial calendar and track assignments, ensuring articles move along on time, while also identifying stories and needs based on seasonality, trends, celebrity finds, bestsellers, product reviews, and more

  • Stay current on trends and new products, maintaining close contact with public relations agencies

  • Utilize our team’s analytics tools, as well as resources like Google Trends, Instagram, TikTok, etc. to come up with the next big content ideas

  • Track and use performance data to adjust editorial strategy and programming efforts with a good understanding of basic business KPIs such as growth conversion rates

  • Manage freelance writer relationships, which includes onboarding freelancers, fielding pitches, assigning stories, editing content, and handling invoices

  • Manage a small team of staff and contract writers

  • Prioritize day-to-day needs alongside short-term, special projects and support your team’s goals, while also taking into account organizational priorities and changes

  • Collaborate with and manage expectations of the commerce, editorial, growth, testing and research, and social teams

  • Assist in our testing process, whether evaluating products at home or attending lab testing days

  • Use SEO tools and knowledge of brands to come up with the next big content ideas

  • Attend weekly commerce meetings

About You:

  • 5-7 years of experience writing and editing in the food and wellness space (preferably for a digital consumer brand), including 2 years of experience editing freelance writers

  • A product enthusiast who spends time shopping and obsessing over purchases; has clocked enough time in the kitchen and walked enough miles in sneakers to know what makes a great product

  • Knowledgeable about the voices of Dotdash Meredith’s diverse food brands

  • Detail-oriented and deadline-focused with solid editing skills, as well as a deep understanding of commerce, SEO, and news content

  • Comfortable with content management systems and workflow systems

  • Strong communication, organizational, and project management skills, including proficiency in management tools like Google Suite and Airtable

  • Ability to see the big picture and work seamlessly across multiple brands daily

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

  • Experience with developing and producing videos for social media a plus

  • College degree required; culinary school or professional cooking experience a plus

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An Insider's view of Dotdash Meredith

What projects are you most excited about?

Atomic design is in our DNA at Dotdash. We're striving to have the dev and design teams work closer together and use a single source of truth for how components are pieced together using predefined molecules and atoms. This is exciting and innovative work that is helping us scale at an incredible rate and deliver on our promise of fastest sites!

Brian

Manager, Front-End Development

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

We do quite a few things to encourage creativity like hackathons, design sprints, and "Unconferences". That said, I think the most meaningful thing we do is to encourage teams to be autonomous. Having control and ownership over their respective applications gives our team members the freedom to explore ideas to solve their own problems.

Nabil

CTO

What are Dotdash Meredith Perks + Benefits

Culture
Open door policy
Team based strategic planning
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K) matching
Dotdash matches 100% of an employee's contributions up to 10% of their annual base salary.
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Vacation + Time Off
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education available during work hours

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