Deputy Editor, InvestorPlace.com Job at MarketWise in Arlington

Overview

InvestorPlace.com is searching for a passionate and strategic Deputy Editor to join our team.

The Deputy Editor will directly support InvestorPlace.com’s Editor-in-Chief in driving editorial direction as we continue to grow. They will also play a key role in leading, inspiring, and developing our team of editors and writers (employees and freelancers). The right person for this position embraces data to make decisions, but also has an incredible nose for a great story and the overall mood of our readers.

The right person wants to continue to evolve and grow our newsroom. Our team produces more than 60 articles each trading day, along with social media and email newsletters. We produce a lot of content, so we’re looking for a Deputy Editor who is comfortable in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

While we are a growth-oriented newsroom with big plans in 2024, InvestorPlace.com places great emphasis on people development. We’re looking for a Deputy Editor eager to invest in career development and in expanding teams.

InvestorPlace.com takes our readers’ financial future seriously and strives to enrich, educate, and entertain self-directed investors through engaging content. We have partnerships with major sites like Yahoo!, MarketWatch, Business Insider, MSN, and Nasdaq, and our site operates as a storefront for more than 20 premium subscription services as part of a larger, established publicly traded publishing company.

We aim to create more confident investors, so the primary responsibility of the job is doing everything it takes to create and foster the environment that will grow the audience for InvestorPlace.com content.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Editor-in-Chief to evolve and maintain an editorial strategy for InvestorPlace.com that aligns with our company’s overall goal of selling subscription investing products.
• Hire and train new editors (full time and freelance), in addition to fostering a culture of growth and development for all employees and freelancers.
• Maintain, measure, and expand third-party content partnerships.
• Develop and lead various team initiatives such as social media strategy, freelance writer onboarding, editorial experimentation, and employee education opportunities.
• Collaborate with colleagues in sales, marketing, product, copywriting, and operations to ensure that the editorial experience both supports and expands their efforts.
• Prioritize big opportunities from small, and focus appropriate time, energy, and effort on those ideas most likely to make a meaningful impact.

Qualifications

• Our ideal candidate will be a time-tested editor comfortable with everything from nitty-gritty daily edits to the management of an editorial operation at scale. Your work will reflect an ability to influence positive change through feedback and to transform writing quality and style.
• Our ideal candidate will be able to speak thoughtfully about audience development, SEO, and digital workflows. Your work should demonstrate that you know how to find, attract, and engage a large audience of online readers.
• You should feel at home managing multiple workflows and have a demonstrable ability to prioritize and execute effectively.
• Our ideal candidate embraces data and is comfortable using it to make decisions, while at the same time trusting and honing a new instinct that honors the art of the written word. Candidates should be comfortable with analytics tools and content management systems such as WordPress.
• Fluency in the English language is required.

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