Regional Editor
The Regional Editor oversees the publishing of our annual business guides. Duties will include coordinating themes and ensuring timelines are met, editorial targets are on time and copy is edited to a high degree of excellence and is further outlined below:
As a manager, you will need to have impeccable communication skills to deal with the Content Managers you oversee. You will be expected to ensure your reporting staff meet expectations. This may include being expected to join interviews (2ps) as needed, improve staff skills, oversee the crafting of questions that can garner business intelligence, help our commercial partners sell advertising and ensure quotas for tasks/meetings are obtained for each member of the team. The Regional Editor helps to recruit new Content Managers as needed and oversees the training of the newly hired Content Managers and ensures a smooth transition to the company.
The Regional Editor will help lay out the annual business guides with the Senior Editor and/or Managing Editor and Art Design. This includes but is not limited to ensuring accuracy of interviews, advertisement placements, photo credits, review and approval of all articles within the book, that there is no plagiarism in any of the editorial, conduct general proofreading, oversee the production of chapter briefs and ensure that each book is an accurate reflection of current events in the market and that no important theme is missed, that all advertising and editorial promises have been adhered to and the printed version of the report is accurate to all contracts committed to by the company.
The Regional Editor oversees the editorial aspect of all launch conferences. This includes, but is not limited to: overseeing panel preps and leading those calls, approaching panelists and keynotes to invite them to participate, serving as moderator, writing/overseeing the writing of all press releases and copy for the event, ensuring social media is maintained before, during and after the event. The Regional Editor is responsible for coordinating the logistics and helping to lead the launch events, whether digital or in person. At times, the Regional Editor may be required to travel to attend and participate in the event.
The Regional Editor is responsible for laying out the weekly online content schedule and ensuring Content Managers adhere to the deadlines laid out by that schedule. The Regional Editor ensures that online copy is released according to deadlines set by management and that all copy adheres to editorial standards (see responsibilities above under laying out annual business reports). Should a Content Manager not be able to produce the article, the Regional Editor would complete the article in his/her place.
Other duties, including blogging/online content, editing of online material and of transcripts as needed, social media elements, participation in networking cocktails and industry summits (and related editorial duties) to be assigned as needed, attending weekly production meetings, ensuring smooth progress of books throughout the year, ensuring up-to-date trackers, working with commercial to ensure agenda on track, traveling to markets as needed and maintaining direct communication with the Senior Editor to ensure deadlines are met.
What Are the Benefits?
Extensive training
Health benefits (includes dental and vision)
Competitive PTO
Employee referral bonus
Early Summer Fridays
Work from home program (Hybrid set-up)
Paid Parental Leave
Volunteerism Leave
Please keep in mind that as a fast-growing, cutting-edge media company, we look for innovation in everything we do. If you like meeting and connecting with new people and working in a dynamic environment that is constantly changing, this is a good place for you to be. If you're great at everything above but are looking for the predictable, don't like to change things up, get in the weeds and think of new ideas or experiment with fresh concepts, this likely isn't the right fit for you. But if you can jump on board, let us know. We want to meet YOU.