Senior Editor, Betting (Remote)

Responsibilities

Work to bring a distinctive, compelling, and authentic voice to all digital media products.
Assist on generating and planning story ideas across a range of sports and editorial platforms, particularly around key events in the sporting calendar.
Maintain an understanding and proficiency of subscription and engagement metrics.
Maintain proficiency and knowledge for SEO (best practices available).
Collaborate with staff and freelance writers on story ideas, and with design on best execution for stories with a clear visual element.
Edit and publish stories via WordPress and work with social and programming teams to make sure they reach the largest possible audience.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in digital sports journalism.
Advanced ability to generate story ideas that result in solid engagement.
Work well with writers on strengthening ideas; strong sense of how to take a single idea and develop it into a broader package.
Advanced understanding of the following editing tasks: copy editing, story structure, recognising problematic sentences, style guidelines.
Ability to add context to stories, edit in the writer's voice, ensure fairness, provide story structure.
High-end knowledge of tennis and global sports.
This is a remote role with a willingness to work weekends and evenings when the sporting calendar requires.