Shopping Editor, Entertainment News & Deals

About The Position |

The Transaction team at Dotdash Meredith is looking for an editor to cover news and deals for PEOPLE Shopping. This person will edit timely shopping stories about the best sales and deals on the internet, what celebrities are wearing and using, new launches to know about now, and product reviews, among other things, from staff writers and freelancers. They'll also track and analyze story performance to inform editorial decisions.

Throughout the year, they'll assist with executing coverage for large sale events, such as Prime Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, plus holiday weekends. As needed, they'll also write stories, as well as copy for newsletters and other off-platform promotions.

The ideal candidate should have past editing and commerce experience, be a creative and quick problem solver, and have a passion for surfacing the best products and prices to a curious audience. This job requires both analytical and editorial skills to ensure our content is accurate, inclusive, comprehensive, and accessible to all readers. Knowledge of celebrities, pop culture, sales trends, and AP style is a plus.

This is a full-time position with a hybrid in office schedule.

The day-to-day:

• Edit shopping stories alongside a dedicated team of full-time editors and writers.

• Track and use performance data to adjust editorial strategy and programming efforts.

• Identify new coverage opportunities based on seasonality, trends, celebrity finds, product reviews, and more by utilizing our team's analytics tools, relationships with public relations agencies, and resources like Google Trends, Instagram, and TikTok.

• Occasionally assist in our testing process by evaluating products at home and in your day-to-day life.

• Attend team meetings on a weekly and monthly basis.

About The Team: |

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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.

About The Positions Contributions:

Weight % Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results

60% Editing

10% Writing

10% Data and analytics

10% Newsletter, homepage, social media

10% Attending meetings

The Role's Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements

Education:

• Has a bachelor's degree in journalism or a related field.

Experience:

• Has at least 5 years of experience writing and editing for a digital consumer brand, including at 2 years of experience with commerce content.

• Possesses a deep understanding of editing for an online audience, news judgment, commerce, SEO, and content management systems.

• Is a product enthusiast who spends time shopping and obsessing over purchases.

• Understands the PEOPLE brand, its voice and perspective, and the consumer habits of its audience.

• Can prioritize day-to-day workflows, details, and deadlines alongside short-term special projects and long-term team goals.

• Will seamlessly navigate organizational priorities and changes as they occur in this growing company.

• Has strong communication, organizational, and project management skills, including proficiency in management tools like Google Suite and Airtable.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:

We expect editors on the transaction team to apply these competencies to their role:

• Decision Quality: Make good and timely decisions that keep the needs of their vertical moving forward. This may happen in the absence of complete information but one may call upon analysis, experience, and judgment to make these decisions.

• Balance Stakeholders: Anticipate and understand the needs and expectations of your stakeholders by balancing all interests, considering all factors when making decisions, and act fairly despite conflicting demands.

• Business Insight: Keep up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends within the organization, the competition, and the marketplace. Use this knowledge to guide actions.

• Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. Asks the right questions, accurately analyzes situations, and acquires data from multiple/diverse sources to solve problems. Focused on uncovering the root problem and evaluating the risks/benefits of different solution options.

• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Is effective across all channels, an attentive listener, adapts to their audience, provides timely and helpful information, and encourages open expression of diverse ideas.

• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Works cooperatively to achieve shared objectives, balances their own interests while being fair to others, partners with others to get work done, and credits others for their contributions/accomplishments.

• Optimizes Work Process: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. Identifies and/or creates the processes that allow managing from a distance, creates efficient workflows, and seeks ways to improve these processes.

• Directs Work: Providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done. Delegates and distributes assignments and decisions appropriately. Monitors progress through dialogue and feedback loops. Provides appropriate guidance and direction and intervenes as needed to remove obstacles.

• Action Oriented: Readily take action on new challenges, identify and seize new opportunities. Display a can-do attitude and step up to handle tough issues.

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