Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Senior Editor role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Atlantic Media's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Senior Editor role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Atlantic Media's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Senior Editor posting at Atlantic Media — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Senior Editor posting at Atlantic Media — free, in seconds.
About the Role
The Atlantic seeks a senior editor to join the audience engagement team, focusing on maximizing journalism reach and impact, cultivating reader relationships, and building platform engagement. This role involves finding compelling language to promote content across platforms, requiring strong editorial judgment, a sharp eye for detail, and the ability to work quickly and guide others.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the daily distribution of The Atlantic’s journalism, ensuring magazine-quality share text on app, home page, newsletters, and social media platforms.
- Ensure high-quality, rapid promotion of stories, including breaking news, features, and social videos.
- Directly supervise one or more audience editors.
- Write, edit, and post presentation copy for Atlantic stories on all platforms.
- Collaborate with editors to maximize efforts on audience team initiatives, such as newsletters, podcasts, video production, reader engagement, and evergreen recirculation.
- Work with the Audience Insights team to test and evaluate performance across all platforms, communicate insights, and refine best practices.
- Support team operations, including liaising with other departments and leading newsroom presentations.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in writing, editing, or operating news-branded social media accounts or digital platforms.
- Previous management experience.
- Scrupulous attention to detail, including writing structure, mechanics, grammar, and spelling.
- Advanced editorial judgment.
- Strong understanding of the media landscape, including emerging platforms.
- A collegial, energetic, “yes and” approach to problem solving and creative endeavors.
- Ability to manage time, communicate clearly, accomplish tasks and projects on deadline, and switch between duties.
- Critical thinking, attention to process, and an appetite to experiment and explore.
Skills
- Writing
- Editing
- Copy editing
- Audience engagement
- Social media
- Digital platforms
- Editorial judgment
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Media landscape
- Time management
- Communication
- Critical thinking
Location
- New York City
- Washington, D.C.
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $105,000
- $125,000
Benefits
- COVID-19 vaccination policy with accommodation options for disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief.
About the Company
- The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time.
- We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture.
- As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.
Equal Opportunity
- The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities.
- We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
- Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy.
- The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status.
- Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.