Associate Editor, Platforms and Curation

Forbes is seeking an editor to fill a vital role in our newsroom helping to curate, elevate, and
spark ideas for our journalism. This role will work closely with the news desk and social media
team to identify and promote our best journalism across owned and third-party platforms. The
editor will also pay close attention to trends and topics on those platforms to spot opportunities
for our reporters to pursue.

The editor will take ownership of homepage curation, push notifications, and daily pitches to
platforms including Apple News, Facebook, and Flipboard, crafting engaging headlines, subject
lines, emails, and push notifications, and building out content offerings in a strategic way on
each platform. They’ll also help deliver on long-term strategic goals on platforms including
increasing engagement, loyalty, and pageviews. Along with the senior editor on the news team,
the associate editor will develop relationships with platforms and deliver insights back to the
news team.
The ideal candidate should be a news obsessive with a passion for thinking quickly and
creatively to identify and pursue opportunities.

Requirements

● Candidate should have 3-4 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 is a must
● 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

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

● Demonstrate experience and interest in curation/distribution — working with various
platforms and products to get our journalism out to the world
● Able to identify and 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

The annual base salary range for this role is $70,000 - $80,000

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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