Editorial Assistant, Sleep & Appliances, NYT Wirecutter

Wirecutter is looking for a curious, enthusiastic, and organized editorial assistant to help us cover large appliances, vacuums, mattresses, and sleep-related products. This is a multifaceted position. You will be asked to proactively and reactively update current live content, and help us with market research, reporting, testing, product assembly, and photo-shoot and tester-day prepping.

As editorial assistant, you will report directly to the team’s supervising editor and collaborate with the other editor and writers on the team. A deep interest in appliances and sleep, and in thoughtful service-driven journalism. You will play an important role in keeping our catalog fresh and providing necessary operational support for our product ordering and testing, and our in-office photo shoots.

This position is based in New York City, with an expectation to work in-person in our Long Island City office.

Responsibilities:

Update reviews with new information ahead of seasonal reader interest, such as upcoming changes to our recommendations, products that we look forward to testing, and recent or long-term testing notes

Systematically check and update existing reviews for internal consistency, flagging dated passages for revision, making corrections, and keeping internal tracking up to date

Scan industry news for changes that affect products and advice in our areas of coverage, communicating swift responses to our readers with our editors and social media team

Collaborate with copy editors, fact checkers, photo editors, producers, and editorial operations team to move changes through our editorial process

Be directly involved in our cyclical planning process, collaborating with writers, editors, SEO strategists, and social team to map out and work on sweeps and updates for reviews and other posts

Assist editors and writers in researching and reporting new guides, rewrites, and updates. This may involve scouting retail and online stores for delightful new products to test, interviewing sources, tracking down studies and data, testing products, attending press events, and more.

Help with our team’s testing and photo shoot operations, from ordering products to test to receiving, unpacking, building, and organizing products in our LIC office. This may involve helping our team obtain (either online or in-store) props for photo shoots; and re-packaging products to send out for long-term testing or donation.

Stay on top of trends across our areas of coverage to help expand our catalogue of guides.

Help with our newsroom’s coverage of retail events (i.e., Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday), curated Wirecutter deal events, and other seasonal projects.

Perform related work as assigned

Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

You will report to the Supervising Editor

Basic Qualifications:

3+ years of strong writing and editing skills for online and print publications

Some experience in the area of large appliances, vacuums, and sleep (journalistic, retail, or industrial design)

You have project management skills and communicate openly

A passion for research-driven, truth-seeking, engaging service journalism

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with remote teams and collaborative software

Empathy for the confused or frustrated shopper, and interest in improving the shopping and buying experience for our readers

Interest in large appliances, vacuums, mattresses, and sleep and the issues that arise when shopping for or using products in these categories

Familiarity with other publications that cover large appliances, vacuums, mattresses, and sleep-related products

Please include your résumé/CV, a cover letter, and any writing samples you may want to submit with your application. You can only upload one file in the “Résumé/CV” box, so you should combine and upload your résumé, cover letter, and any other materials as one file.

This is a union position as classified by the News Guild of New York.

The annual base pay range for this role is between $67,626.00 and $70,000.00.