Staff Editor

TL;DR

Staff Editor: Editing stories from multiple desks and managing syndications from international brands with an accent on breaking news, investigations, and timely analysis. Focus on identifying surprising angles, structuring arguments, and eliminating jargon across a broad range of topics.

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York, NY

Salary: $80,000 - $105,000

Company

WIRED is a guide to a world in constant transformation, covering humanity’s biggest challenges and the role science and technology can play.

What you will do

• Edit stories from across the WIRED newsroom and syndicated content from international brands.
• Work with external partners to identify stories for syndication and manage them through the production process.
• Collaborate with WIRED teams on visuals, fact-checking, production, social media, and video to maximize story impact.
• Contribute to brand extensions, social platforms, and additional projects as needed.
• Represent the brand in public-facing roles, such as on social media and at speaking engagements.
• Proactively seek out interesting, diverse voices who can help WIRED deliver differentiated business coverage.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience as an editor in a fast-paced, digital, and news-driven environment.
• Experience covering the tech industry, cybersecurity, science, or another core area of WIRED coverage.
• Experience overseeing multi-platform content from brainstorm to execution.
• Excellent time management, prioritization, and communication skills.
• Ability to balance daily deadlines with longer-lead projects.
• Highly collaborative with excellent communication skills; adept at working with a diverse team of fact checkers, copy editors, designers, photo editors, digital producers, social media producers and story editors

Culture & Benefits

• Based out of our New York City or San Francisco offices.
• Collaborate with colleagues in San Francisco, New York, London, and points between.
• Work closely with the science, politics, and security desks, and collaborate with other desks as coverage demands.
• Guild position.