Senior Managing Editor, Fantasy and Sports Betting (Remote)
The Athletic Media Company United States Full-time
Responsibilities
- Manage a staff of reporters with an emphasis on the delivery of news and distinct team analysis.
- Provide a big-picture, conceptual vision for the vertical, including long-term direction; generating and planning story ideas; editorial platforms; expansion opportunities.
- Establish process and priorities to balance content assignments ranging from short-form and breaking news to daily coverage to long-form projects.
- Work to bring a distinctive, compelling, and authentic voice to all digital media products.
- Maintain an understanding and proficiency of subscription and engagement metrics.
- Maintain proficiency and knowledge of SEO best practices.
- Develop comprehensive multimedia coverage and contacts that include text and audio.
- Coordinate staffing assignments, editorial resources and process. Maintain an updated and accurate forward-looking editorial budget.
- Collaborate with staff on story ideas, and with the design team on best execution for stories with a clear visual element.
- Oversee the vertical’s financial budget, including projecting month-to-month expenditures and managing travel.
- Edit and publish stories via WordPress as well as the news and live file tools.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in digital sports journalism, including at least five years of direct editorial and personnel management.
- Expert ability to mentor writers and more inexperienced editors; can reposition/redeploy writers to get maximum value from staff.
- Expert ability to generate story ideas that result in solid sub-growth and engagement.
- Works well with writers on strengthening ideas. Strong sense of how to take a single idea and develop it into a broader package.
- Expert understanding of the following editing tasks: copy editing, story structure, recognizing problematic sentences, style guidelines.
- Ability to add context to stories, edit in writer’s voice, ensure fairness, provide story structure.
- Leader in the day-to-day execution of ideas that result in engagement and subscriptions.
- Works outside of regular purview to find ways to improve the operations and sharing of information.
- Pushes company initiatives hard.
- High-end knowledge of Fantasy & Sports Betting.
- This position is based in the United States or Canada.