About the Role:

Serious Eats is looking for experienced editors with culinary backgrounds to work on a contractor basis on our content library. As a content update editor, you will be responsible for reviewing existing articles and recipes, and making necessary revisions and content improvements in accordance with project instructions and brand guidelines. We ask our update editors to commit between 20 and 40 hours a week, and to keep week-to-week variation to a minimum (i.e., avoid exceeding or falling short of their weekly committed hours). This position is remote and ideal for someone who is looking to have steady, reliable hourly work from week to week. The rate for this role is $25/hour. Unfortunately, we can only consider candidates who are residents of the United States and Canada.

About Your Contributions:

• Review existing articles and recipes and revise content according to project instructions, brand and style guidelines, and editorial judgment 
• Identify and update outdated material, noting where visuals need improvement
• Place photographs and other visual assets in accordance with recipe steps and instructions, noting when assets are unavailable or low quality
• Use editorial judgment and guidelines to merge and reformat multiple articles featuring redundant content.
• Copyedit, fact check, and potentially rewrite content
• Spot and either rectify or flag errors/potential pitfalls in recipe copy

About You:

• At least 4 years of experience editing in the food and beverage space, preferably for a digital brand
• Strong copywriting and copyediting skills, with a demonstrated ability to capture brand voice/identity in tone and structure
• Professional cooking experience and/or culinary school strongly preferred, including experience writing and developing recipes and an ability to match images with culinary instructions
• Familiarity with international ingredients and cuisines
• Detail-oriented, deadline-focused, and able to work independently and accurately
• Comfortable with content management systems

About Us:

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.

Dotdash embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit, and business need. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.