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About the Role
WIRED is seeking a Features Editor to join their team in New York City. This role involves assigning and editing ambitious, deeply reported longform stories that explore how science and technology are changing business, politics, culture, society, and human nature. The ideal candidate will have a passion for creative storytelling and a proven ability to guide writers in developing compelling narratives across multiple platforms.
Responsibilities
- Conceiving feature stories and evaluating feature pitches from freelance writers and staffers
- Assigning, tracking, and editing stories
- Overseeing (along with colleagues) at least two packages a year, in print and online
- Recruiting freelance feature writers and helping staffers do their best features work
- Participating in brainstorms with other editors, bringing original ideas and helping fine-tune others
- Working closely with WIRED’s art, production, research, copy editing, and social teams
Requirements
- Experience with, and curiosity about, stories on how technology and science are affecting business, culture, politics, and more
- Demonstrated ability to turn feature story manuscripts into first-rate articles for a national audience
- At least five years experience in a newsroom or magazine as an editor
- Excellent skills in structuring narratives and line editing
- Ability to work collaboratively and collegially with a team of fact checkers, copy editors, designers, photo editors, digital producers, social media producers, and other story editors
- Facility with headlines, subheads, captions, and other elements of story building and promotion
Skills
- Creative storytelling
- Narrative structuring
- Line editing
- Providing feedback
- Idea generation
- Writer development
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- Guild position
Experience Level
- At least five years experience in a newsroom or magazine as an editor
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000-$165,000
About the Company
- WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change to global security, from pandemic preparedness to the future of democracy, and tell stories of the people trying to solve these challenges and the role science and technology can play—for good or ill. WIRED reaches more than 30 million people each month through WIRED.com, our digital edition, the magazine, social media, and live events.
Equal Opportunity
- Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.