LinkedIn seeks business journalist in Germany

LinkedIn is looking for a seasoned journalist in Munich who wants to help define the future of how German professionals create, curate and consume business content.

The LinkedIn editorial team drives the Influencer program — where the world’s top professional voices share their insights — and helps steer the content that flows through LinkedIn, Pulse and SlideShare. As the founding editor in Germany, you’ll help German-speaking professionals get the news they need to be better at what they do and get them writing what they know in order to drive the business conversation.

The editor will be responsible for identifying and working with a roster of top thought leaders in Germany, professionals who want to weigh in with breaking views about the business world, discuss social impact changes, and offer career guidance and leadership ideas based on their success. You’ll also be responsible for reaching out to huge numbers of professionals — many of whom have never written before but have insights that deserve to be heard — to get them sharing their thoughts. You’ll identify, work with and curate great content from top German publishers and pick content from LinkedIn in English that you think should be translated (and vice versa). And you’ll come up with new ways to combine content with the data and systems that make LinkedIn unique.

The editor should have experience with original and curated news, know or have paths to reach top thought-leaders, have incredibly strong news sense, be deeply knowledgeable about business content, be a sharp and quick writer and editor and, most importantly, have an entrepreneurial spirit. The ideal candidate is as interested in shaping a product as shaping a story.

The position is based in Munich, reporting to LinkedIn’s international editor and working with teams in NYC, SF, and other locations.

In this role you’ll be responsible for:

• Helping curate Pulse for members who access the site in Germany;
• Forging relationships with top thought leaders and publishers to make sure their content is feeding into LinkedIn and Pulse;
• Spotting and predicting trends important to German business content readers and creators;
• Generating analysis on what’s working and what’s not and coming up with ways to increase engagement through content.
• Writing original content

Requirements:

• Fluent in English and German
• Extensive experience in journalism, with business journalism preferred

To apply, go here.