Travel & Culture Senior Editor

At Outside Online, we inspire and empower people to live boldly, explore the natural world, embrace an active lifestyle, and to get outside as often as possible. Through compelling storytelling, expert advice, important news, aspirational stories, and a commitment to sustainability, we connect adventurers of all levels to the beauty, challenges, and benefits of the outdoors. We tap into mainstream news, buzzy trends, and what’s happening in the zeitgeist. Our content is relevant to pro athletes, weekend warriors, and armchair outdoor enthusiasts alike.

We are seeking a motivated senior editor to oversee our Culture and Travel channels, where they’ll assign, edit, and write highly engaging content. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of the digital media landscape, the ability to think creatively about multimedia content, and a passion for outdoor culture, travel news and service.

Within 1 month, you will: 

• Assign and edit articles for Outside Online (reported, first-person, lists, essays, humor)
• Write news and service articles for Outside Online as needed
• Implement SEO best practices for all related stories
• Workshop display copy with team
• Attend news meetings and team pitch meetings 
• Manage contracts and payments for freelancers  
• Ideate article ideas based on audience research
• Build articles and source art for Outside Online in CMS
• Update archival stories, utilizing SEO tools
• Assign and edit or write affiliate stories as needed
• Incorporate multimedia elements, such as maps and archival videos into your stories
• Oversee the Travel Channel’s Destinations newsletter
• Fact-check and copy edit content
• Demonstrate ability to adapt and prioritize in a dynamic environment

Within 6 months, you will: 

• Oversee Travel and Culture channel columnists
• Strategize and experiment with new ways to highlight maps in the Travel and Culture sections
• Engage with the Travel and Culture sections’ presence on the Outside Activity Feed
• Assign, edit, and embed videos related to your story assignments; and create your own video recaps, as well
• Assign and edit for print as needed in the Travel and Culture sections, and beyond
• Begin pitching and assigning longform features
• Bring new voices and freelance writers to Outside
• Work with the newsletter team to launch a Culture newsletter

Within 12 months, you will: 

• Grow roster of regular freelance contributors
• Own the Travel and Culture sections’ presence on the Outside Activity Feed
• Strategize and implement mapping conversion tactics, especially on the Travel channel
• Implement and manage a robust video strategy for the Travel and Culture channels
• Grow content for audience segments
  

What YOU bring to Outside:  

• 5+ years of experience in digital editing
• Exceptional writing, editing, and organizational skills
• Comfort with digital publishing tools and workflows like WordPress, the Google Suite, Parse.ly, Photoshop, etc.
• Understanding of SEO best practices and social media strategies
• Ability to manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with shortform video a plus

Outside Interactive, Inc., not only celebrates diversity, we believe that having a diverse and inclusive environment is critical to our success. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation or gender identity, veteran, or disability status. To support a workplace culture of belonging, we offer a number of trainings and resources including: participation in  Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), diversity and unconscious bias training for every employee, and encouraging team members to participate in our active and engaged internal DEI committee.

What We Offer:

Entirely remote jobs that could be performed in Colorado: Employees can expect to be paid a salary of  between $70,000 to $95,000. Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, Flexible Time Away,  sick leave, and more.  This salary range is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors