Associate Newsroom SEO Editor (Remote)
March 2
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Description
• The Associate Newsroom SEO Editor will help grow The Athletic’s audience by optimizing the news of the day, evergreen stories and sections and by guiding on live journalism, and helping to further create a newsroom that is audience focused. • Manage and monitor real-time and long-term audience trends to identify opportunities for news coverage. • Regularly pitch and communicate strategic recommendations with editors to provide them with coverage ideas based on audience insights from Google Trends, social media and other tools we employ for tracking news moments. • The job requires flexibility between morning and evening shifts and one weekend shift per month. It also requires schedule shifts during major sporting events.
Requirements
• SEO experience at a major publisher, sports, or news organization. • Excellent organizational and time management skills. • Understanding of SEO strategy and best practices for live, breaking news and evergreen. • Familiarity using Google Search Console, SEMRush, SimilarWeb, Chartbeat, Botify, or other similar tools. • Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills. • Collaborative and able to work across editorial and analytics teams.
Benefits
• Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans. • Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses. • 401k retirement savings plan and employer match. • Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
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