Senior Editor, Thrillist

Job Description

The Senior Editor will work with staff writers and freelancers to bring innovative, compelling travel journalism to life, with a focus on original reporting and feature stories. As a member of Thrillist's editorial team, they will help shape and implement content strategy and build and manage an editorial calendar against key cultural events while also helping to execute on site-wide tent poles, newsletters and various editorial products. They will also help to refine the tone and voice for Thrillist's coverage through impactful and original travel content driven by our audience's interests, identities, and perspectives. The perfect candidate will have substantial travel experience under their belt, with extensive knowledge about both domestic and international destinations, a good understanding of the travel industry, and a strong curiosity about people, places, and cultures around the world.

WHO WE ARE

Thrillist helps its ever-curious readers, no matter where they are in the world, to discover their next adventure. As the go-to digital media publication for passion-led exploration, Thrillist focuses on where travel converges with culture-including art, history, food and drink, nightlife, the internet, the outdoors, and more-to help inform and inspire travel plans from the moment we walk out the front door. None of us leave our interests or identities behind when we travel; at Thrillist, we turn our passions into transformative travel experiences.

Thrillist is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
• Manage staff and freelance writers every step of the way to produce engaging, impactful travel journalism
• Identity new talent and voices to bring to the site, with increasing the diversity of our freelance roster a priority
• Ideate and produce original travel feature stories that are enlightening, timely and meet the needs of the Thrillist audience
• Help keep track of your team's monthly freelance budget and ensure freelancers are paid in a timely manner
• Attend regular company-wide pitch meetings and brainstorms and contribute insightful ideas across multiple teams
• Attend regular team meetings and audience insights meetings and contribute ideas and peer feedback
• Use audience data and insights to inform storytelling process and work to increase audience engagement with the stories on our site
• Liaise between freelancers and the social media and art teams whenever needed
• Edit with an eye for detail, and a specific emphasis on the most important parts of a story: the copy, the headline, the visuals, and the formatting
• Help to ideate and execute franchises, tent poles and sponsored editorial initiatives
• Use reporting tools (such as Google Analytics, Parsely, SEMRush, and custom dashboards) to analyze traffic and SEO data to inform strategy and decision making

WHO YOU ARE
• 3+ years of experience in digital journalism, including at least two years as an editor
• Extensive experience editing feature stories with a focus on travel
• Experience working closely and efficiently with freelance writers
• Exceptional writing, copyediting, and fact-checking skills
• Superior communication skills, especially when providing constructive feedback
• A knack for strategic thinking, creative brainstorming, and problem-solving
• Strong understanding of SEO best practices
• A genuine love for travel, food, adventure, and connecting with people all over the world
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage many projects and deadlines simultaneously
• Proven experience with peer-to-peer coaching and teamwork
• An existing network of freelance talent, industry experts, and/or public relations professionals

If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great addition to our team. We've hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.

WHERE YOU'LL WORK

This job is remote.

PAY TRANSPARENCY

The salary range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.

Pay Range

$80,000 — $90,000 USD

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gm07j6-18-221-85-142-42 in your application.