Senior Strategy Editor

Senior Strategy Editor, Forbes Vetted

Location: United States

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Forbes Vetted is seeking an experienced commerce editor to join the Forbes Vetted content strategy team.

This is a highly strategic role that will play a key part in maintaining the success of our evergreen shopping guides and product reviews and optimizing the Forbes Vetted content library. Working closely with editorial staff across all Forbes Vetted categories, you will be responsible for identifying new and impactful coverage areas as well as tracking and analyzing the performance of that content. You will manage a small team of updates editors and writers, guiding them to produce revenue-optimized and reporterly content updates and directly editing their work; you may occasionally write updates or other strategic content yourself. You’ll also guide collaborative work with the Forbes Vetted content strategists (who report to the Forbes.com SEO lead) and the Data, Product, and Revenue team. This role will report to the Forbes Vetted executive strategy editor.

This is a remote role with an option to commute to the Jersey City Forbes office if desired

Responsibilities will include:

• Directly managing a small team of updates editors and writers, leading them to produce high-quality and highly strategic commerce content
• Editing your team’s work and offering suggestions for further strategic optimization, plus occasionally writing similar content as needed
• Leading nuanced, SEO-focused content planning for Forbes Vetted with support from SEO content strategists, plus identifying new coverage opportunities across editorial sections
• Making data-informed recommendations for optimizing new and existing stories for search traffic and affiliate revenue
• Collaborating with the updates, data and SEO teams to refine performance reporting across content
• Maintaining documentation for evergreen content analysis
• Working with the deals editor to plan content for sales events (like Memorial Day, Labor Day and Black Friday through Cyber Monday) and participating in some holiday weekend coverage

The ideal candidate:

• Is an experienced editor with top-notch writing, editing and reporting skills, preferably in the product recommendation space or one of Forbes Vetted’s key coverage areas (mattress, home and kitchen, fashion, beauty, travel, outdoor gear, kid’s gear, deals)
• Has an expert-level grasp of commerce content strategy and KPIs, plus SEO best practices for lifestyle and shopping content
• Has experience as a people manager with a proven track record of success in leading remote staff members
• Can guide staff to create top-quality work, and coach them to improve when necessary
• Loves digging into data and has deep experience with SEO and data tools including SEMrush, Ahrefs and Looker
• Demonstrates great organizational skills and attention to detail; experience with project management tactics and tools a huge plus
• Is a superb communicator who’s able to manage the flow of information up, down and across the team this is a highly collaborative role

The annual base salary range for this role is $85,000 – $100,000

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