Business Insider
is hiring an associate editor to work on its strategy desk, where you’ll report to the careers and strategy editor and help oversee a team of full-time reporters and fellows.
The mission of this desk is to cover the often-complicated story of success. Business Insider surveys the playing field of opportunity, stalks through the halls of power and wealth, and ultimately equips readers to do great things.
This role will include careful line-readings of stories produced by a growing team of reporters at varying levels of seniority — meaning the ideal candidate will know how to handle conversations with both industry vets, entry-level reporters, and members of Business Insider’s early-career fellowship program.
Besides being an accessible leader with a deft human touch, you should also be:
- A strong ideator who can come up with great pitches for others on the team to pursue.
- A born storyteller with precise news judgment — not only do you know what works, you know why it works.
- An eagle-eyed grammar whiz who can mold story structure and flow while weeding out typos and factual mistakes.
- A headline pro who can catch a reader’s attention from a title’s first words (and who knows what image pairs best with a winning headline).
- Someone who can harness the power of metrics (think Google Analytics and Chartbeat) to lead the team to success.
- A natural project manager who can keep track of a team’s multiple assignments and schedules, and instinctively know what should be prioritized on hectic news days.
- A thoughtful communicator who can coordinate coverage up, down and across newsroom hierarchies.
You should have two to four years of editorial experience, preferably in a fast-paced digital newsroom (bonus points for business publications). A copyediting background and Photoshop chops are also a plus, but not required.