Senior Editor, News & Trending

About The Position | Major goals and objectives and location requirements

Simply Recipes is seeking a full-time senior-level editor to join our team. This position will oversee Simply Recipe’s news and trending content, and primary responsibilities include pitching, assigning, and editing articles and seeing them through the publication workflow. This position would be ideal for someone who has prior experience writing and editing food and cooking content for a digital publisher. This position reports to the Associate Editorial Director of Simply Recipes.

As a food website that reaches millions per month, we have the duty and responsibility to create positive change. We are focusing our hiring efforts on diversity, equity, and inclusion and building a team that reflects our dedication to these principles at every level of our organization.

Remote-

In-office Expectations: This position is fully remote with no in-office requirements, (might require coming into an office 1 or 2x a year)

Hybrid 3x a week- (New York) 

In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

About The Team | The Team and/or Brand.

Simply Recipes is here to help you cook delicious meals with less stress and more joy. We offer recipes and cooking advice for home cooks, by home cooks. Helping provide “kitchen wins” is the whole reason we’re here.

Simply Recipes was founded in 2003 by Elise Bauer as a home cooking blog to record her favorite family recipes. Today, Simply Recipes has grown into an invaluable, trusted resource for home cooks with more than 3,000 tested recipes, guides, and meal plans, and new content publishing daily. The site draws over 15 million readers each month from around the world, employs a team of full-time editors, and is supported by a diverse group of recipe developers, food writers, recipe and product testers, photographers, and other creative professionals.

About The Positions Contributions:

Weight % Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results

• 30% - Help grow traffic and build brand cachet through clickable news and trending articles, feature stories, and editorial packages. Pitch, assign, edit, and publish daily news and trending content for Simply Recipes. Optimize our news/trending content for news outlets (Google Discover, Apple News, etc), track and provide analytics on published content, and suggest future strategies to grow traffic to this content.

• 20% - Ideate, pitch, and collaborate with the Simply Recipes team on packages of content built around editorial tentpoles, holidays, heritage months, and cultural moments. Assign, edit, and publish new content for these packages, and/or work with editors assisting with this content creation. (This content includes recipes, tips/education content, commerce content, and voice-driven essays.)

• 15% - Work with the Simply Recipes art department on imagery for daily content and content packages. Work with Simply Recipes social and email departments on promotion strategies for daily content and content packages.

• 15% - Track and provide analytics on published content, and suggest future strategies to grow our traffic to this content. Track current trends and competitors and apply learnings to pitches and assignments, sharing ideas with the team on a regular basis.

• 10% - Collaborate with the Simply Recipes team on editorial strategy and other editorial goals. Help build and manage a diverse group of expert writers who can cover food topics from a lens that impacts different communities.

• 10% - Occasional article writing. Occasional appearances on social media and video content. Represent Simply Recipes in occasional PR appearances and campaigns.

The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. A degree in English, Journalism, or Creative Writing is preferred.

Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience developing editorial food content, preferably for the web.

• 2 years experience editing food content and working with freelance writers

• Must have experience specifically related to home cooking, understand nuances surrounding sourcing and credibility, and a deep understanding of what works on the web.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:

• Simply Recipes is a service-driven website dedicated to helping people of every background and skill level cook great meals for themselves and their families. Candidates should share this mission and feel a strong degree of compassion for the specific challenges facing home cooks (lack of time, budget concerns, dietary restrictions, grocery store access, lack of equipment, etc).

• A knack for storytelling and for helping writers hone their voices.

• Strong visual skills, particularly when formatting content for readability and when evaluating art/photography for publication.

• An eagle eye for detail and a very high level of organization.

• Experience working within a content management system (like Wordpress), MS Word, and Google (Docs, Sheets, and Slides).

• Experience tailoring content for Google Discover, AN+, and various outlets preferred.

• Strong copywriter, capable of writing engaging, lively headlines and descriptions within the Simply Recipes voice and brand guidelines.

• Ability to assess creative quality and brand fit and give constructive feedback to writers and other editors.

• Flexibility and collaborative work is a cornerstone for how our company operates. Candidates must have a growth mindset toward new projects and challenges, and feel comfortable sharing ownership, giving and receiving feedback, and working within a team structure. 

• Simply Recipes is a remote team. Candidates must be adept at communicating and growing relationships over Slack and Zoom with only occasional in-person team gatherings.

% Travel Required (Approximate): 5%