Associate Editor, Platforms and Curation

Forbes is seeking an editor to fill a vital role in our newsroom helping to curate, elevate, and spark ideas for our journalism. This role will work closely with the news desk and social media team to identify and promote our best journalism across owned and third-party platforms. The editor will also pay close attention to trends and topics on those platforms to spot opportunities for our reporters to pursue.

Responsibilities:

Take ownership of homepage curation and push notifications
Daily pitches to platforms including Apple News, Facebook, and Flipboard
Crafting engaging headlines, subject lines, emails, and push notifications
Build out content offerings in a strategic way on each platform
Help deliver on long-term strategic goals on platforms including increasing engagement, loyalty, and pageviews
Along with the senior editor on the news team, the associate editor will develop relationships with platforms and deliver insights back to the news team

The ideal candidate:

Candidate should have 3-4 years+ experience in a digital newsroom — experience working on tight deadlines, and working with social media platforms, metrics, and/or social copy a plus
Experience writing headlines and the ability to write sharp, succinct copy is a must
Sharp news judgment and an understanding of what readers want
Comfort analyzing metrics across multiple platforms and communicating results and insights back to team members
Demonstrates experience and interest in curation/distribution — working with various platforms and products to get our journalism out to the world
Able to identify and write and edit compelling subject lines, social copy, and emails to drive strong engagement
Willing to use data to guide content decisions and methodical in testing ideas in order to achieve desired results
Comfortable working in a fast paced and deadline-driven organization
Highly adaptable and quick to learn processes

The annual base salary range for this role is $70,000 - $80,000