Group Editor, Longitude

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About FT Longitude
FT Longitude is a thought leadership specialist that is fully owned by the Financial Times Group. Our product offering spans three areas: Strategy, a set of services that helps clients to plan and execute effective and differentiated thought leadership campaigns; Research, which encompasses surveys, interview programmes, data modelling and desk research; and Content, which covers multi-format thought leadership campaigns, spanning reports, articles, opinion pieces, visual and interactive content. We work hard to build and maintain a strong, engaging culture that motivates and inspires our team to do great work, learn new things and develop their careers.
Our values

• Put quality at the heart of everything we do
• Meet our clients’ objectives every time
• Collaborate and support each other to achieve better outcomes
• Be transparent and open with each other
• Embrace and drive positive change
• Think commercially at all times
• Be proactive and creative

Role overview
The successful candidate will lead thought leadership campaigns for some of the world’s most influential businesses, across all sectors. You need to be a generalist who can craft a compelling story about almost any business-relevant topic. This may, for example, mean finding new things to say about disruptive technology, the future of the AI-augmented workforce, strategic transformation, and the role of private capital in enabling net zero.

You will be responsible for writing surveys, interviewing opinion-formers, extracting stories from data, and working closely with clients to help shape their thinking. You will work on a wide range of content, including long-form reports, podcasts, opinion pieces, narrative and messaging decks, and related digital and interactive content.
The successful candidate needs to be conscientious, reliable, and supportive of others in the team.

Essential skills and attributes

• Clear, concise and engaging writing
• Editing long- and short-form content
• Survey writing and hypotheses development
• Data analysis and desktop research
• Interviewing skills (both for qualitative research and podcasts)
• Content planning and strategy
• Creativity, brainstorming and story development
• Client liaison and project management
• Presenting, workshop-facilitation and influencing
• Team-working

Location
Usually we are based in the FT’s city centre HQ, overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Option for team members to work in a hybrid environment on a continued basis.

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