West Coast Audience Engagement Editor

The Guardian US seeks a creative, energetic and collaborative editor to join our US team and help us grow and diversify our audience. This person will work closely with our West Coast bureau, which is primarily based in Los Angeles. They will surface story ideas and find creative ways to promote projects with the goal of growing and engaging our US audience. They will also work remotely with their New York-based colleagues.

The Guardian has experienced significant growth in the US and currently draws more than 50 million monthly unique visitors in America, and more than 170 million unique visitors around the world. The audience engagement editor will be part of a versatile, data-driven team that works with journalists across the newsroom to build on this trajectory, and increase the reach and impact of journalism. The right fit for this role will have a passion for news and data, a flair for story packaging and strong communication skills.

At The Guardian, we're experimenting with different content formats as part of our social media strategy, in partnership with external platforms. This editor will work on those pilots and projects, in collaboration with the wider team, and complement our ongoing audience development work.

We're particularly interested in candidates with experience and ideas that will help us diversify our audiences culturally and geographically and increase our reach among underserved communities in the US, supporting our work to create journalism and build a readership that is representative of America. This will be a core focus for the candidate and others on the team.