Temporary Senior Updates Editor

Forbes Vetted is seeking a Temporary Senior Updates Editor to join our growing commerce editorial team. 

This is a highly strategic role that will help maintain the success of our evergreen shopping guides and product reviews. In collaboration with the senior strategy editor, you’ll oversee a team of updates writers responsible for optimizing and maintaining our library of evergreen commerce content. Day-to-day tasks will include analyzing commerce KPIs and SEO data to determine which articles should be updated, making formal recommendations around what should be updated within particular stories (internally called an “update brief”), as well as assigning, editing and publishing updates. You will work closely with the senior strategy editor and category editors as well as our SEO and affiliate team leads, so strong collaboration and communication skills are essential. This role reports to the Executive Strategy Editor.

This is a remote role with an option to commute to the Jersey City Forbes office if desired.

Responsibilities:

• Working alongside the senior strategy editor to optimize content for search and improve commerce KPIs of our existing library of evergreen content
• Managing the updates team calendar, including scheduling and prioritizing assignments and ensuring all updates are published in a timely manner
• Directly managing two staff updates writers
• Leveraging SEO and data analytics tools like Google Keyword Planner, SEMrush and Looker to monitor rank of our top priorities, plan content and track performance against team and individual goals
• Using KPIs and competitor research to create content update briefs to guide section editors and updates writers
• Collaborating with category editors to conduct substantive and formatting changes within their section’s content

The ideal candidate:

• 5+ years of experience editing and publishing updated articles, ideally at a commerce publication; a background in working across multiple verticals that we cover is a plus
• Experience managing and mentoring direct reports
• An expert-level understanding of SEO best practices, with the ability to translate them into creative, new ways to strategize
• A strong grasp of commerce KPIs and experience using them to inform content decisions 
• Demonstrated editing and reporting skills, with a meticulous eye for detail
• Stellar time management and organization skills and an ability to independently manage workflow while maintaining open communication with strategy stakeholders
• A focus on user experience and editorial independence, plus an appropriate taste level to be able to curate products for the Forbes audience

The hourly rate for this role is $60.00 - $60.00.

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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