Bisnow is seeking a seasoned, razor-sharp Editor to help lead, report, and build our growing commercial real estate news operations. We're in the business of delivering intelligence at the intersection of international commercial real estate and politics, sports, entertainment, business, technology, and beyond. We need a thorough editor with a deep passion for the news who can help us continue to expand our ambitions.
Location: This position must sit in San Francisco remotely, no office requirement. The San Francisco Reporter must attend all Bay Area based events. (Typically 1-2 per month.)
BISNOW OVERVIEW
Bisnow is the commercial real estate industry's leading, vertically integrated B2B media platform, covering North America, Canada, the UK and Ireland. We serve the CRE industry through award-winning news and publications, renowned events, wide-ranging marketing services, specialized recruitment solutions, and intelligent sales enablement tools.
With 1.7M+ subscribers and 400+ events annually across 47 markets in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, we don't just cover the industry, we help move it forward.
We inform. We connect. We create opportunities that turn into deals. Global mindset. Hyper-local execution.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Writing roughly eight articles a week of varying lengths and types, and producing daily morning briefs.
- Covering breaking news and deeper enterprise reporting in San Francisco's commercial real estate industry.
- Working a beat, traveling around the Bay Area covering the latest trends, personalities and news related to the commercial real estate industry.
- Infiltrating the CRE industry — turning arcane data into useful and entertaining information while maintaining personal relationships with lots of leads and sources.
- Having an intimate knowledge of the Bay Area's CRE business — knowing where the major players are located, what deals they are responsible for and what events they attend.
- Working with the global news teams on major projects and national series.
- Working with a local team of event producers and sales representatives to assist in the content of events and producing coverage of those events.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Great writing skills.
- Excellent news judgment.
- Digital experience and at least two years of experience in business journalism.
- The personality of a self-starter and must be a thoughtful and articulate writer who is interested in building his or her voice and journalistic brand on Bisnow.com.
- A commitment to seeking diverse stories and sourcing.
- Must have ability to travel around the Bay Area, and must have availability to attend/cover Bisnow-hosted events.
- Though not required, it would be a plus if the candidate has knowledge of commercial real estate, urban and community planning and urban design, and especially contacts within those industries.
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
- Competitive compensation structure!
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - effective the 1st of the month following your start date.
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance - this includes maternity and paternity leaves as well.
- 401K
- Flexible Spending Account
- Dependent Care Account
- Unlimited Vacation Days
- 7 days paid sick leave
- 9 paid Holidays
- Referral Bonus Program
- You’ll get to work with incredibly smart, passionate, driven, ambitious, kind, caring and mindful people and will rarely experience an overload of policies, bureaucracy or toxicity (the latter, we do not tolerate).
Skills Required
- At least two years of experience in business journalism
- Strong writing skills
- Excellent news judgment
- Digital experience
- Self-starter personality
- Thoughtful and articulate writing ability
- Commitment to diverse stories and sourcing
- Ability to travel around the Bay Area
- Availability to attend and cover Bisnow-hosted events
- Knowledge of commercial real estate, urban and community planning, or urban design
- Contacts within commercial real estate, urban planning, or urban design industries
What We Do
Our mission is to inform, connect and advance the commercial real estate community to do more business. We aspire to be the most data-driven and humanizing digital media, live events and intelligence platform in the galaxy — and through this effort, drive the industry to greater heights. Bisnow hosts 340+ events a year that are attended by over 70,000 people, 2,000 sponsors and hundreds of speakers. We also publish newsletters and morning briefs that reach almost three quarters of a million executives.
