Temporary Assistant Audience Editor

Forbes is an iconic global media brand that has symbolized success for over a century. Fueled by journalism that informs and inspires, Forbes spotlights the doers and doings shaping industries, achieving success and making an impact on the world. Forbes connects and convenes the most influential communities ranging from billionaires, business leaders and rising entrepreneurs to creators and innovators. The Forbes brand reaches more than 140 million people monthly worldwide through its trusted journalism, signature ForbesLive events and 49 licensed local editions in 81 countries.

Forbes is seeking an Editor to join our newsroom’s audience team for a temporary assignment, helping to curate, elevate, and spark ideas for our journalism. The editor will play a key role in expanding our social media presence and driving engagement. The ideal candidate should be deeply familiar with most social platforms, understand best practices on each, and remain flexible amid the ever-changing social landscape. They should be comfortable writing and testing headlines, photos, and copy for posts, have a sharp understanding of the news cycle, and be able to measure performance with help from the analytics team. The role will seek to understand what performs well, why, and how that should shape our thinking. This role will report into the Assistant Managing Editor, News & Audience.

Responsibilities:

• Write accurate, clear and lively editorial emails, including subject lines
• Build email alerts for news stories
• Craft social posts for platforms including LinkedIn and Instagram
• Track performance of emails and posts and adjust strategies accordingly
• Identify trends and opportunities on social platforms and communicate effectively with editors
• Liaise with other audience, social and editorial teams 

The ideal candidate:

• 1-3 years experience in a digital newsroom — experience working on tight deadlines, and working with social media platforms, metrics, and/or social copy a plus
• Experience writing headlines and the ability to write sharp, succinct copy 
• Experience with Canva or other design programs a plus. 
• Sharp news judgment and an understanding of what readers want
• Comfort analyzing metrics across multiple platforms and communicating results and insights back to team members
• Experience—or strong interest—in business journalism
• Experience and interest in curation/distribution — working with various platforms and products to get our journalism out to the world
• Ability to identify, write and edit compelling subject lines, social copy, and emails to drive strong engagement
• Willing to use data to guide content decisions and methodical in testing ideas in order to achieve desired results
• Comfortable working in a fast paced and deadline-driven organization
• Highly adaptable and quick to learn processes
• Should be news obsessive with a passion for thinking quickly and creatively to identify and pursue opportunities.

The hourly rate for this role is $28.85 - $28.85

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith.  The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate.  In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so.  Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions.  We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes.  Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!

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Forbes aims to offer employees the flexibility they need in order to be successful. Some positions may require candidates to be based in a specific location for consideration while some roles may be fully remote (within the U.S.) if it aligns with the needs of the position. This position is only open to candidates residing in California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, & Washington. Due to business operations and compliance requirements, we are unable to consider applicants based outside these states at this time.

Forbes is an equal opportunity employer.

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