Bisnow seeks commercial real estate reporter in LA

Bisnow is North America’s largest platform for news, education, and events in the $11 trillion commercial real estate industry. Our lean but growing cohort of 70 amazing employees produce digital news and information avidly followed by half a million subscribers and events attended by 70,000 professionals per year.

Bisnow’s on and offline content is designed to be socially oriented like Facebook, fun like BuzzFeed, pithy like Twitter, hyper-local like Foursquare, picture heavy like Instagram, and substantive like the NY Times. Our cash flow has three components: advertising within our newsletters, sponsorship opportunities at our events and of course, ticket sales.

Sounds great, why would I want to work at Bisnow?

You may or may not want to work at Bisnow. Do you enjoy working 9 – 5 and look forward to your two weeks of vacation each year? If so, this is not the place for you. If you love working hard, taking on new challenges, learning something new on a daily basis and are not afraid of failing so that you can learn from your mistakes, well, you might as well not bother applying anywhere else. Bisnow invests in driven,hardworking and self-motivated employees who are hungry to learn.  We are always learning new business strategies, new selling strategies and new marketing strategies to advance our own skill sets and to bring different opinions to the table.

We also believe in fun.  Work hard. Play hard. Right?  Our employees around the US are working around ping pong tables, sitting on inflatable exercise balls, caring for the office mascots and working in “The HR Room” with a few couches, a TV and a fridge stocked with beers.  At Bisnow, work and life are easily integrated because we love what we do.  If you are a competitive, yet inspirational, individual looking to work with others that fit this description and want to invest your career in a start up company that is fun, quickly growing, provides opportunity for promotion, pays for results and is willing to invest in growing your skill set – well done, you found us.  Our primary objective is to hire intelligent, fun, hard-working people who add to our already exciting and thriving culture.

The Day to Day (“Responsibilities”):

• Be the all access pass into dominating the CRE industry in LA
• Work a beat, travel around the city, cover the latest trends, personalities and news related to the CRE industry
• Deliver ground breaking and top news in a conversational manner. This means turning arcane data into useful and intriguing information while maintaining strong personal relationships with leads and sources

Tools You Already Have (“Qualifications”):

• Super awesome writing and editorial skills
• Curious attitude towards how we can improve as a team on a daily basis
• Self-disciplined
• Highly detail and of course deadline oriented
• Positive and fun attitude towards life, work and everything in between
• Live in/near LA and be able to travel between point A, B and C

Think you’ve got what it takes? Prove it.

Send your resume to matt.black@bisnow.com but don’t send a cover letter. Instead, send a 100-word summary on why we should reach out to you.