The Transaction team at Dotdash Meredith is seeking a strong, experienced performance marketing beauty editor to join the Health & Beauty services desk. This person will be responsible for managing an editorial workflow of service stories at the intersection of wellness, beauty, style, and fitness for Shape, InStyle, Verywell Fit, and Brides.
The ideal candidate is a self-motivated editor who is passionate about testing and researching services to make informed recommendations to our readers, especially in the beauty and style space, and can create and edit quality, well-researched content that fits a variety of different brand voices.
You will (day-to-day)…
- Write, test, edit, and publish articles reviewing beauty and style services that generate affiliate revenue
- Identify and carry out commerce content opportunities within wellness, beauty, style, and fitness categories
- Oversee a daily editorial workflow of content submitted by freelance writers
- Recruit, train, and onboard beauty freelance writers with the appropriate expertise to create quality content as needed
- Monitor trends and news related to beauty, style, wellness, and fitness services
- Collaborate closely with numerous writers and editors on the transaction team and select members of editorial teams; attend weekly editorial and strategy meetings
- Keep content records organized in workflow platforms such as Airtable; build in the CMS when necessary
You…
- Are an experienced editor with 2-4 years of experience in the digital editorial space for an online publication (experience editing commerce or service journalism content highly preferred)
- Have strong editorial judgment and a keen sense of how to develop content that serves a targeted audience
- Have familiarity with the Shape, Brides, Byrdie, and InStyle brands and are interested or knowledgable in beauty, style, wellness, and/or fitness
- Have demonstrated experience working with freelance writers
- Have excellent project management skills, attention to detail, and are comfortable multitasking or pivoting to reprioritize tasks as needs change
- Are experienced in digital media metrics and tools, such as CMS platforms and Google Analytics
- Are knowledgeable in SEO, AP style, and affiliate linking best practices
- Have a proven aptitude for communicating and collaborating with both remote editorial workers and in-house editorial and our research team members.
- Are quick learner who is excited about working on reviews, roundups, and other content about beauty services
- Ideally, you have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in journalism or a related field
Part of the Transaction team spirit means embodying these core competencies:
- Manage Ambiguity: You can comfortably deal with change and can decide/act without the total picture. You remain calm and productive while dealing constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes.
- Nimble Learning: You’re eager to actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
- Self-Development: You want to seek new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels. You show a personal commitment to continuously improving, accepting stretch opportunities, and making the most of available development resources.
- Collaborate: Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Balance own interests while being fair to others, partners with others to get work done, and credits others for their contributions/accomplishments.
Pay RangeSalary: $60,000 – $75,000