About the Role
Lead Domain’s property news coverage and manage a small team of property journalists. This senior editorial role is responsible for shaping, commissioning, and publishing authoritative, engaging, and timely property journalism.
Responsibilities
- Take pitches, brainstorm ideas and provide clear editorial direction and feedback
- Assign stories and brief reporters daily and weekly, including on breaking news
- Plan and manage the content workflow and content calendar
- Edit journalists’ copy to a high standard and provide feedback as required
- Write where/when required, to a high standard
- Stay across property trends, data, the economy and housing policy, identifying news opportunities
- Deep dive into data and reports to inform coverage and generate story ideas
- Track content performance metrics and make strategic editorial decisions based on audience insights
- Work collaboratively with other teams across the business, including video, social, SEO and magazine
- Contribute to major campaigns and cross-platform initiatives
Requirements
- Significant editorial experience in a newsroom environment
- Proven experience managing or leading journalists
- Strong news judgment and editing skills
- A sound understanding of the Australian property market and the economic forces that shape it
- Experience working with data and translating it into accessible journalism
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- Ability to juggle breaking news with planned, longer-term coverage
Skills
- Editorial judgment
- News instincts
- People leadership
- Coaching journalists
- Sharpening ideas
- Digital-first newsroom experience
- SEO/AIO knowledge
- Audience analytics knowledge
- Newsletter experience
- Video production experience
- Social media team experience
Location
- NSW/ACT
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Domain is a leading property technology and services marketplace with a large portfolio of property brands in Australia, including Domain, Allhomes and Commercial Real Estate (CRE).
- In 2025, Domain became part of CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP), a global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, online marketplaces and 3D digital twin technology.
- Together, Domain and CoStar Group are dedicated to digitising the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
Equal Opportunity
- Domain is committed to fostering an equitable, inclusive work culture which reflects our customers and communities.
- Proactively looking for candidates from all lived experiences, including people with disability, and people of all ages, ethnicities, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples), faiths, sexual orientations, and gender identities (including trans and non-binary people).
- Committed to providing an equitable recruitment process for people with disability.
- CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
- Maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
