Deputy Audience Editor – New Scientist
Location: Manhattan, New York
Salary: $70,000 to 80,000 depending on experience
Position: Permanent
Workplace type: Hybrid
Closing date: 3rd April 2023
Job Introduction
New Scientist is looking for a digital journalist specialising in audience growth and engagement to lead on using platforms such as Google Showcase and Apple News to expand our worldwide reach and grow our US readership. This role will involve getting to know all of New Scientist's content and digital output and collaborating with our editorial teams worldwide to make the most of our articles on digital platforms. You'll also share your digital expertise with New Scientist's New York team, and work closely with our London team to use our social media channels to better engage our large and growing US following.
The role will be based in New York, involve some training in London, and report jointly to our US Editor (New York) and our Audience Editor (London). This is a hybrid-working position, with a minimum of three days a week in our Manhattan office, and a maximum of two days a week working from home.
Main Responsibilities
- Curating the best selection of articles for Google Showcase and other platforms, plus curating our homepage during US hours.
- Helping to develop and lead a strategic approach to leveraging third party platforms for audience growth and engagement.
- Producing and publishing the necessary assets for serving our content to these platforms.
- Working with editorial and production teams to coordinate online content publishing schedules.
- Using our social media channels to more deeply engage our US followers.
- Providing digital engagement and audience growth expertise, from general SEO best practice advice to CMS article formatting support, to our US journalists.
- Supporting our Audience Team's use of newsletters, social media,video and SEO to get the most from New Scientist's digital content.
Person Specification
- You do not require a qualification in science, technology, engineering or maths, but a passionate interest in these subjects is essential.
- The role requires previous hands-on experience driving digital audience growth for an editorial publication through third party platforms such as Google Showcase or Apple News, plus social media channels.
- A working knowledge of SEO best practice and comfortable using Google Analytics and other tools to inform and shape digital practices.
- Some experience writing and editing journalist copy, plus excellent attention to detail and good editorial judgement.
- Clear communication skills, the ability to take the initiative while collaborating with many colleagues.
Skills & Behaviours:
- A keen interest in audience development and the fast-changing digital journalism landscape.
- An understanding of the different audience needs across different platforms.
- Excellent editorial judgement and attention to detail.
- Clear communication skills.
- A passion for science and technology.
Benefits package
Our generous benefits package for US employees includes health, dental and optical care, 401k and paid family leave in line with New York state law. We also have a matching program for charitable giving.
About New Scientist
New Scientist is a magazine for the insatiably curious. We ask the big-picture questions about life, the universe and what it means to be human. Since our publication was founded in 1956 for "all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences", it has expanded to include newsletters, videos, podcasts, courses and live events in the UK, US and Australia, including New Scientist Live, the world's greatest festival of science. Our headquarters are in London, UK, and we also have a growing New York bureau.
At a time when misinformation is an increasingly corrosive force, there has never been a greater need for a trusted, impartial source of information about what is going on in the world or a greater need for inspiration through exceptional ideas. From artificial intelligence to climate change, the latest innovations in health to the mysteries of quantum physics and the human mind, New Scientist covers the ideas and innovations that matter.
Working for New Scientist
New Scientist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applications to NewScientist will receive due consideration regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
As an organisation, we strive for empathy, self-awareness, courage and integrity, collaboration, innovation and information seeking. We aim to create an inclusive environment, empowering employees and embracing diversity. We welcome all applications.
