WebMD LLC is hiring: Senior Copy Editor in El Segundo
WebMD LLC - El Segundo, CA, United States, 90245![WebMD LLC](/api/image?src=https%3A%2F%2Fgeneral-board-default.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdesk-360x180.webp&w=640&q=75&f=webp)
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Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Internet Brands is a fully integrated online media and software services organization focused on four high-value vertical categories: Health, Automotive, Legal, and Home/Travel. The company's award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 250 million monthly visitors, while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep, long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. Internet Brands' powerful, proprietary operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the company's continued growth. Internet Brands is a portfolio company of KKR and Temasek.
WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands Company, is the leading provider of health information services, serving patients, physicians, health care professionals, employers, and health plans through our public and private online portals, mobile platforms, and health-focused publications. The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD Health, Medscape, Jobson Healthcare Information, prIME Oncology, MediQuality, Frontline, QxMD, Vitals Consumer Services, MedicineNet, eMedicineHealth, RxList, OnHealth, Medscape Education, and other owned WebMD sites. WebMD, Medscape, CME Circle, Medpulse, eMedicine, MedicineNet, theheart.org, and RxList are among the trademarks of WebMD Health Corp. or its subsidiaries.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
For Company details, visit our website: www.webmd.com/www.internetbrands.com
Experience: 4 years
Work Mode: Work from Office
Office Timings: 2PM to 11PM
Position Requirements:
- The position requires candidates to be comfortable working across a broad range of therapeutic/medical areas and editorial content, from news to reference articles to video scripts and more.
- The Team lead must have strong copy-editing skills and the ability to train, guide and motivate junior and senior copyeditors in their day-to-day work, helping to ensure timely production and updates of editorial content.
- Master’s degree in Life sciences, Pharmacy, Journalism, English, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Candidates with ELS certification preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years copy-editing experience with 1-2 years of experience in mentoring and leading junior and senior copyeditors for pharmaceutical/medical writing industries, or an equivalent combination of related education and experience.
- Strong copy editing skills: spelling, punctuation, grammar, fact checking, proofreading, attention to appropriate tone.
- Deep knowledge of AP and AMA style.
- Experience in copy-editing for the electronic environment preferred.
- Ability to analyze complex medical data and interpret for a physician audience.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills, with the ability to efficiently work on multiple tasks simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment.
- Independent and innovative self-starter.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to quickly distill complex information into essential elements relevant to clinicians at the point of care.
- Excellent medical literature retrieval and evaluation skills.
- Proficient knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Experience with G Suite (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar).
- Experience in content management systems.
- Manage 5-7 copy editors.
- Copy-editing content with a focus on healthcare professionals.
- Experience in editing for US English and AMA style of medical writing editing.
- Responsible for all copy editing-related aspects of each assigned project as per the style guide to annotating per source references and performing QA checks.
- Copy must be accurate, clean, well-organized, and adhere to technical specifications.
- Project and Workload Management: Must be able to handle multiple projects concurrently, maintain the highest quality, and meet copy deadlines. Must be able to interact effectively with internal teams (i.e., editorial and writing) to ensure quality and smooth progression of projects.