DDM Studios is Dotdash Meredith’s award-winning native content studio. Home to a best-in-class team of editors, producers, designers, developers, and talent managers, we excel at creating high-quality, insights-driven content that inspires and engages. Dotdash Meredith’s unparalleled data, combined with DDM Studios’ storytelling expertise, gives us the unique ability to connect beloved brands with passionate, cross-platform audiences at scale and drive action.
Dotdash Meredith is one of the largest media companies in the world, reaching more than 200 million consumers globally across multiple platforms. Our portfolio includes brands such as PEOPLE, Verywell Health, Better Homes & Gardens, Parents, Byrdie, Travel + Leisure, and Real Simple.
The Editor will join an agile and fast-paced team that creates native content for a wide range of advertisers across our brands such as Investopedia, Travel & Leisure, Verywell Health, Food & Wine, Real Simple, Parents, PEOPLE, People en Español, and others. The ideal candidate should be comfortable managing multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously while working closely with art directors, designers, content strategists, marketers, and freelance writers to service our digital, print, and social channels. Strong writing and editing skills are a must, as is comfort and knowledge with multiple style guides and a flexibility to work with other DDM brands as needed. A background in finance is a plus, and a passion for financial topics—from smart investing to reducing debt, maximizing credit card benefits, and planning for your children’s education, retirement, etc.—is preferred.
This is a full-time freelance role reporting to DDM Studios’ Director of Finance Content.
Essential Job Functions
Responsibilities
- Assign native articles and provide writers with applicable brand messaging documents and DDM brand style guide info.
- Recruit experienced freelancers to complete assignments, and work to increase the department’s list of reliable, knowledgeable writers.
- Conduct thorough first edits of native articles with an eye for balancing DDM brand voice with advertiser messaging points.
- Write engaging content for occasional Finance and Health articles, custom destination landing pages, video outlines and/or scripts, and dark social media posts across a variety of platforms (Facebook, Instagram, etc.).
- Track and implement client feedback through multiple rounds of review in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
- Collaborate with designers and photo editors on visual components of written content.
- Select strongest images and insert jpegs, and later resized images, in article documents.
- Attend internal and client-facing meetings throughout the entirety of campaigns.
- Perform daily and weekly administrative tasks including: taking ownership of program-tracking spreadsheet to ensure deadlines are met; generating weekly list of upcoming meetings/deliverables; sharing live article links with writers; creating/updating style “cheat sheets” for DDM brands to share with writers.
- Maintain meticulous attention to detail across written assignments, communications, claim reference/sourcing, and file management.
Qualifications and Job Requirements
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism, English/Creative Writing, or equivalent writing/editing experience
Experience
- Minimum of ~2-3 years experience as a writer/editor/copywriter for print and digital publishers or in agency settings
- Experience in or strong interest in financial topics; experience in writing/editing health content is a bonus
Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Versatile: You are comfortable assigning, editing, and occasionally writing content on a wide variety of financial topics, from more nuts-and-bolts articles about savings or investment options to health-, lifestyle-, travel-, and food-themed articles.
- Skilled: You are confident in your editing abilities and judgment.
- Detail-oriented: You always proofread and fact check your work before forwarding it.
- Creative: You are a creative thinker with a passion for storytelling and creating informative content. You are energized by a brainstorm with your peers and love innovative formats
- Collaborative and Communicative: You enjoy partnering with others and can collaborate across departments and with internal and external stakeholders and are confident in your ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
- Punctual: You are driven by tight deadlines and are a highly organized multi-tasker.
- Inclusive and Authentic: You strive to create content that's inclusive of and authentic to the audiences you reach.
- Technical: You know your way around Google Suite and Gmail, Slack, and Airtable (or similar project-tracking tools).
- Previous branded content experience preferred
Location
- Ideal candidate is based in the New York City metro area, but we are open to remote for the right candidate
- Must be available to work 40 hours a week on Monday - Friday, with hours ranging from 9:30am - 5:30pm EST
- Priority to those comfortable with a hybrid work environment (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays in office, 2 days/week remote)
How to Apply
- Please apply via email with links and/or attachments to your resume and portfolio.
- Subject line: Editor (Contract), DDM Studios
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