Staff Reporter
Hello, We’re Built In
What We’re Up To
We’re building the largest platform for tech professionals globally. Monthly, millions of professionals visit BuiltIn.com from across the world. We’re the only platform they need to stay ahead of tech trends and news, develop their careers and find opportunities at companies they believe in.
Our 1,800 customers include innovative companies of all sizes, from exciting startups to companies in the Fortune 100. To attract our audience of skilled professionals, they trust us to tell the stories of their cultures and share their job opportunities. This helps them hire the industry’s most sought-after professionals locally, nationally and remotely – ultimately contributing to the industry’s ability to innovate a better future.
What You’ll Be a Part Of
Working at Built In is the chance to help shape a fast-growing company. Whereas we served eight tech hubs at the start of 2021, we entered 72 new markets across the U.S. by year’s end. Global plans are in the works. With venture funding of $30 million to date, we’re expanding not just our geographic footprint but our products and technology.
With the launch of e-learning opportunities for users, we’ve made Built In even more valuable for the professionals who already trust us with their careers. And as we grow into the leading SaaS product for employer branding, we're using the latest technologies to serve customers in new, exciting ways — and you’ll contribute to that.
You’ll also be a part of changing the lives of professionals like you, ambitious people with a passion for tech and love of learning. As a result, you’ll understand the impact of your work in a deeply personal, especially meaningful way.
We’re looking for a Staff Reporter, Updates
Built In’s editorial team delivers high-quality reporting to millions of tech professionals, producing longform explainers, features and guides that help readers understand and navigate the evolving tech industry. While the core takeaways of these articles often remain relevant for years to come, the data, statistics and examples they reference can become outdated. As a reporter on our updates team, you will be tasked with updating, supplementing and expanding upon Built In’s existing content with new research and reporting.
This reporter will play a key role in ensuring the continued relevance of Built In’s reporting, while keeping the reader experience top of mind. In some cases, improvements will be limited to minor tweaks, like updating old statistics or revising display copy with new insights. Other times, entirely new sections or wholesale rewrites may be necessary. In all your work, your goal is to make each article as engaging, actionable and useful as it can possibly be.
This is a unique opportunity to be at the cutting edge of an innovative new approach to journalism — other publications experimenting within this space include Vox Media and Wirecutter. You’ll also be part of an ambitious editorial team with reporting and editing experience from publications like The Atlantic, Pacific Standard and The Marshall Project. This team reports to Built In’s VP of Growth, and is primarily responsible for building and retaining the site’s audience of tech professionals.
How You’ll Contribute
- Maintain the accuracy and relevance of high-performing Built In explainers through strategic changes, like updating statistics, tweaking display copy and adding newly relevant information.
- Elevate and expand upon existing Built In features and explainers with new research and original reporting.
- Explore and test new optimization strategies to enhance article performance, sharing insights with the broader editorial team to help us improve the quality and impact of our content across the board.
What You Need
- Experience reporting and writing multi-source articles between 1,500-3,000 words in length.
- A strong ability to break down complex, nuanced topics and make them approachable through strategic use of examples, hypotheticals and other storytelling techniques.
- An eye for detail, a collaborative mindset and the flexibility to adapt quickly to shifting priorities and tasks.
- A strong interest in tech industry trends and emerging technologies (i.e. artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotics, software engineering, cybersecurity, data science).
- An ability to easily adopt an established brand voice and adhere to editorial style guidelines.
Impress Us Even More
- Experience in a full-time SEO role, or a role with a significant SEO component.
- A demonstrated ability to develop and document new editorial processes and conduct content experiments informed by quantitative data and feedback.
- Experience working in Airtable or other project management tools.
What We Value
We’re revolutionizing tech recruitment. So we question everything, because the best answers sit just to the right of a question mark. That’s our heritage as a disruptive company — as a company whose future depends on our capacity to innovate with a sense of drive, purpose and urgency. If you join Built In, you will work from this set of values:
- Be Inclusive, Always. We’re committed to a culture where all people are respected, have a say and can be their whole selves. We will uplift and advocate for one another. Always.
- Be Unreasonably Passionate. Our passion is borderline obsessive, and we’re ok with that. No one ever built anything great on a “meh.” We work with outsized passion to fulfill our mission.
- Be Humble. You don’t have all the answers. Luckily, you don’t have to. Don’t worry about being right. Be humble instead.
- Stay Curious. Curiosity is a springboard to the future. It can transform the wisp of an idea into a breakthrough. We ask “what if.” We work with wonder. It’s how we innovate.
- Lead with Solutions. Question everything. But offer solutions as you do. Raise issues. But propose a few answers. For every hole you poke, offer a way to patch it up.
- Own the Result. We have no time for blame or shame. When you stumble, own it, learn from it + get back to business.
- Do More. Do more than your job description. Take initiative. Take charge. No job is beneath you, and no job is too big. Be a leader and do more — do whatever it takes.
Be Inclusive, Always
Research shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to apply to roles only when they check every point on a job description. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of qualifications and this role is aligned with your career trajectory.
Built In is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Built In is guided by principles of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We are committed to this work over the long-term, but here’s some of what’s in place today:
- We have three thriving ERG groups: BuiltOut, United We Parent, and Women United in Tech.
- We are proud to be led by a woman CEO and founder, and that more than half of our managers and employees identify as women
Location & Salary
- Built In currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles, which allows employees flexibility to split their time between office and home. This is a hybrid position located in Chicago, and we are prioritizing candidates who are able to be in the office 3x/week.
- Our base salary range for this role is targeted at $45,000 to $50,000 per year. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. Exact salary will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's skills, qualifications, experience and work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- All regular, full-time employees are eligible to enroll in Built In's benefit plans, beginning the first of the month after the first day of employment. Benefits information can be located at https://builtin.com/company/built-in/benefits.
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