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Wirecutter seeks a web producer

December 26, 2021

Posted by Chris Roush

Wirecutter is seeking a web producer to join our Production team, which executes the creation and maintenance of site content. Web producers package and publish Wirecutter reviews, blog posts, and other digital content, ensure the quality of our content, and maintain multiple file management systems and databases.

As a web producer at Wirecutter, you’ll work within a small collaborative team to meet daily publishing deadlines, and you will report to the production manager. Production is essential to Wirecutter’s editorial process and success, and as a full-time team member, you will be too. We are a team that places high value on collaboration and communication, both in our daily work and in our efforts to continually improve how we work. If you enjoy detail-oriented tasks and creative problem-solving, we’ll work well together. This role has the potential to be remote.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare content to be published, by moving copy and other assets into our content management systems.          

  • Communicate with stakeholders across various departments (including the writers and editors of the content in production) to ensure that published projects meet expectations.

  • Process URLs and product information, perform basic image preparation and manipulation and create basic HTML tables.

  • Contribute to the maintenance of product, image and content tracking databases, and of team process documentation.

  • Conduct quality assurance tests on content pre- and post-publish, fix errors in published content, and test new site changes and features.

  • Assist with work on retail events (i.e., Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday) and site-wide strategic projects, as necessary.

  • Perform related work as assigned.

Qualifications

  • 1+ years of experience producing or managing website content in a digital media environment

  • 1+ years of experience working remotely with a team

  • Experience managing many different assignments at once, using project management tools like Trello, Airtable, etc.

  • Familiarity with basic HTML and content management systems like WordPress

Please include your résumé/CV and a cover letter with your application. You can only upload one item in the “Résumé/CV” box, so please combine and upload your résumé and cover letter as one file.

This is a union position as classified by the News Guild of New York.

To apply go here.

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