Company description Dotdash's vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger. Job description

About Your Role:

Dotdash’s Food and Drink Group is looking for a digitally savvy news editor to establish and run the news desk for The Spruce Eats, Serious Eats, Simply Recipes and Liquor.com. The right candidate will have a passion for the food and drinks spaces and assist in driving innovation for all of the brands, on-site and across platforms; implementing top-level news strategy; managing a team of freelance writers; running the daily news coverage process; and enforcing the brands’ voices to ultimately grow traffic and audience engagement.

About Your Contributions:

• Strategize around the news mission for each site - determine how each site’s news offerings differ, and how each adds context and service to its coverage.
• Manage daily news features and a team of freelancers producing approximately 20-25 news stories per week around industry news and events
• Review and copy edit all new articles to ensure best practices are being met
• Track performance and report on progress towards specific KPIs 
• Manage news coverage and ongoing maintenance of news library 
• Manage and enforce documentation around brand best practices and guidelines to ensure high-quality content
• Manage visual asset creation in conjunction with visual editors
• Collaborate closely with editorial leads and social editors from each brand

About You:

• You have at least 5 - 8 years experience in a related news role or newsroom environment 
• You passionately follow the food and drink news cycles across various platforms
• You demonstrate knowledge of how to make a news story unique, and have a proven track record of not only covering the news but adding a contextual and/or serviceable angle 
• You’re detail oriented, impeccably organized, deadline focused, creative, and eager to learn
• You feel comfortable working across well-established brands with distinct perspectives simultaneously
• You have well-honed writing chops and are happy to jump on coverage yourself when necessary
• You come with a stable of reliable writers and PR contacts in the food and drinks spaces
• You have operating experience with content management systems and web analytics tools, plus an appreciation for the value of a good SEO strategy
• You have or can develop a strong understanding of the various brands’ voices
• You have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in journalism or communications 

Compensation this position is : salaried, 75k-100k Location job can be done remotely Application instructions Deadlineno deadline