Senior Writer, Streaming

One of the world’s fastest-growing websites, Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what products to buy, showing you how to get the most out of them and get the best deals. From our strong foundation in consumer technology coverage, Tom’s Guide’s primary ambition is to help you leverage the latest products and services to achieve your ultimate goal, whether it’s getting in shape, protecting your kids, being more productive or just having fun.

Job Summary & Purpose

Tom’s Guide is seeking an experienced senior writer to create helpful and entertaining coverage for the streaming category. Our mission is to recommend the best shows and movies to watch and help people get the most out of the services they subscribe to. This role will entail writing roundups, news, reviews, op-eds and more related to the latest shows and movies across all the major streaming services, including Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV, Max and others..

In addition, you will be writing timely how-to watch content for shows and events, including sports, as well as reviewing streaming services and devices. You will also regularly update critical buying guides to help our readers find the best services and devices for their streaming needs. If you’re an expert on all things streaming with a strong editorial voice, this job is for you!

Key role responsibilities

Create several streaming articles per week, including listicles that round up the best new shows and movies to watch across all the major streaming services.
Write how-to watch articles timed with big show premieres and sports events; write and maintain hubs for highly anticipated shows and movies.
Maintain key buying guides and hubs on the best streaming services and streaming devices with consistent updates.
Brainstorm thoughtful analysis and opinion coverage to help Tom’s Guide stand out
Assist with deals coverage, especially during critical shopping seasons such as Black Friday
Work with the streaming channel editor to analyze what’s working and respond to important trends.

Requirements

Essential skills and experience

At least 2-3 years of experience at an online media outlet covering streaming and entertainment
A desire to develop and grow streaming content audience using innovative ideas and keeping abreast of industry developments and trends
Ability to maintain high output level and thrive in a fast-paced environment
Proven ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams
Excellent communication skills
Strong industry contacts preferred
Experience promoting stories via cross-linking and social media
Ability to create short videos on streaming content for TikTok, Reels a plus

Benefits

What will I get in return?

As well as our standard benefits, we have a number of awesome perks available to our staff including:

Unlimited paid time off (yes you read that right!)
Free food (monthly munchies, bagel Fridays, fresh fruit & snacks and coffee and tea on tap)
Central office locations with cool open plan working spaces
Free digital magazine subscriptions and access to back copies of our print magazines and bookazines
Discounted gym membership and onsite health & wellbeing (yoga at lunch anyone?!)
Annual Future conference - get together with your colleagues to celebrate success and look forward to what's next
Regular staff socials arranged by our wonderful Employee Community & Culture committees
Huge opportunities to learn and develop whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues

Internal job family level - E6

Please note, the salary for this position is $70,000

* Please note, the salary range for this position is the lower end of the range needs to be the Union minimum & the upper end of the range needs to be + $5,000 of the Union minimum.

* This is a position covered under a collective bargaining agreement between Future US, Inc. and the Writers Guild of America East