Digital & Social Platform Editor

Location: New York, NY

Salary: $100,000–$120,000 annually, based on individual candidate experience and skills.

Company

hirify.global is a global news platform producing journalism and insights focused on transparency, competing perspectives, and the forces shaping major stories.

What you will do

• Identify strong moments, angles, and formats from scoops, breaking news, enterprise reporting, interviews, video, podcasts, and live journalism for distribution.
• Package and distribute journalism across LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and emerging platforms using platform-native copy, headlines, captions, hooks, and framing.
• Support rapid-turnaround distribution from events and newsroom moments, including real-time clipping of live conversations and editorial video.
• Edit, format, subtitle, clip, package, and publish short-form video from interviews, podcasts, newsroom shoots, and live events.
• Develop promotion plans for events, franchises, editorial launches, shows, and major convenings, including live social coverage.
• Partner with newsroom, audience, video, and audio teams to identify distribution opportunities, monitor audience behavior, optimize performance, and maintain editorial standards, voice, and accuracy.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in social media, audience development, digital publishing, or platform distribution.
• Strong editorial instincts and understanding of news judgment.
• Experience publishing across major social and video platforms, particularly LinkedIn, YouTube, X, and Reddit.
• Understanding of platform-native storytelling and audience behavior.
• Ability to work quickly and calmly in a fast-paced newsroom and live-event environment.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience covering or supporting live events.
• Familiarity with Premiere, CapCut, Descript, or similar editing tools.
• Experience working with a wide array of journalists and newsroom teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, salaried employees receive flexible paid time off without a prescribed limit or defined balance.
• Work spans newsroom, audience, video, audio, and events teams.
• Editorial work emphasizes rigor, transparency, accuracy, and understanding competing points of view.