Staff Writer, The Dodo

Job Description

Temporary Staff Writer, The Dodo

WHO WE ARE

The Dodo is the #1 media brand for reach on mobile in the US, and the most engaged media brand globally across all content genres. We tell fun, entertaining, emotional stories about animals that make people laugh, cry happy tears, feel ALL the feels, and fall in love with animals.

The Dodo 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.

We're looking for a Writer to join The Dodo's Editorial team on a temporary basis, within Vox Media. Day-to-day, you'll own pitching, researching and writing stories for everyone who loves animals. These stories may include everything from heartwarming adoption and rescue stories, to animal-related identity/entertainment pieces, to photo-driven content curated for social platforms.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

The Dodo is the #1 media brand for reach on mobile in the US, and the most engaged media brand globally across all content genres. We tell fun, entertaining, emotional stories about animals that make people laugh, cry happy tears, feel ALL the feels, and fall in love with animals.

The Dodo 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.

WHO YOU ARE
• Write entertaining, heartwarming, highly shareable stories for animal lovers that reinforce The Dodo as the ultimate destination for people who love pets.
• Find and pitch the best animal stories from around the world.
• Own all aspects of article production - including pitching, interviewing sources, researching, writing and packaging for various social platforms.
• Ensure your pieces drive significant site traffic through social distribution and SEO, via constant performance optimization and adhering to best practices.
• Support the social team with daily photo story sourcing.
• Have superb writing and grammar skills, and imbue your work with style and humor
• Have a unique ability to spot images and stories with viral potential and turn it into a strong pitch for The Dodo's audience
• Able to channel The Dodo brand into a fun, relatable, self-aware and identifiable written voice
• An analytical thinker who will ground your work in performance metrics and best practices
• Always thinking about how to optimize article packaging for traffic growth
• Takes full accountability for deliverables and performance
• Embraces new challenges and smartly experiments with new formats while remaining true to the brand and best practices
• Understands business needs and individual role in meeting company goals
• Proactively takes on projects and initiatives that contribute to the success of the team

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

$70,000 — $74,000 USD

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rno5xo-13-59-22-238-42 in your application.