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Bankrate.com seeks editors

Bankrate.com is looking for some top-notch editors with great writing, editing and people skills who want to develop the most awesome content team in personal finance. These are important lead editor positions — innovating with and managing an in-house reporting team for one of the most authoritative publications in the personal finance industry.

Success includes developing a stable of social media stars covering personal finance topics within one of our areas of coverage.

Rock-star candidates will be experienced editing content for consumers and innovating award-winning stories and projects. Social media experience is essential, as is familiarity with writing for search optimization.

Our Editor positions are based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, or New York City.

About the Roles:

  • Manage, coordinate and edit all coverage from the reporters, bloggers and writers producing content about a variety of personal finance-related topics.
  • Understand SEO value and employ best practices for SEO.
  • Consistently improve the quality of Bankrate’s content.
  • Understand metrics on our storytelling and allow them to help inform decisions. Actively follow and assign content on personal finance topics and trends.
  • Come up with ideas and create content in story form, blogs, quizzes and interactives.
  • Be engaged and active in social media, staying current with trends in social media.
  • Create and iterate reviews methodology for a variety of personal finance topics.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with industry sources.
  • Create content for one-off features and special requests.

About You:

  • Knowledgeable of the personal finance and news industries.
  • Thorough understanding of business topics.
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience as an editor and manager.
  • Strong knowledge of AP style.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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