Senior Editor, Audience Insights

Job Description

The Atlantic is seeking an experienced journalist with exceptionally well-developed expertise in the use and interpretation of analytics platforms. This person will join the leadership team in charge of audience engagement in the newsroom, reporting to a deputy editor; develop close collaborative relationships with journalists across the organization; and be a partner and liaison to the teams outside the newsroom that focus on growth, data science, and audience insights.

Founded in 1857, the magazine is undergoing a major expansion of its newsroom, digital platforms, and journalistic ambitions. The newsroom audience team sits at a key intersection between The Atlantic and its readers. It helps dedicated readers find the most valuable and nourishing work for them, leads casual visitors to greater depth, and introduces newcomers to our journalists and sensibility.

The successful candidate will be a natural exponent of The Atlantic’s core values: generosity, relentlessness, and impact.

The journalist we hire for this role will have three objectives:

1. Work with colleagues across the organization to set and test hypotheses about how to cultivate habit and draw more readers across a key threshold of visit frequency.
2. Identify and pursue opportunities to drive deeper engagement in real time, for example by tailoring a recirculation approach on a given story based on referrer.
3. Find and socialize insight-driven recommended actions across the editorial staff, working with individual teams to improve presentation, guide publication times, and shape general promotional strategy on both a per-story and broader strategic basis.

In addition, as a leader on the audience team, this person will be responsible for managing the performance and career development of one or more editors on the team.

We’re looking for these qualities:

• Impeccable journalistic judgment, usually developed over several years of experience as a newsroom editor.
• Expert facility with analytics tools, including Google Analytics, Firebase, and Looker. (We will consider candidates who can quickly develop expertise in our tools.)
• Experience executing a proactive digital audience strategy.
• A well-developed, empathetic managerial philosophy, and the ability to inspire goal-driven performance.

Atlantic Media Values:

Across Atlantic Media, generally, the firm looks for two “pillar gifts” in its candidates. In all of us, these are more aspirational than actual, but they are central in our intentions.

Force of Ideas: At the center of Atlantic Media work are the ideas within our writing. We believe that ideas – to the good and not – have consequence. Our highest work is bringing rigor, insight, intellectual honesty, to that ultimate purpose of separating the bad from the good, giving voice, argument, and flight to the latter.

Spirit of Generosity: Atlantic Media seeks in its ranks a spirit of generosity – a natural disposition in each colleague toward service and selfless conduct. Atlantic Media writing should be cut from the same cloth – critical on the merits but informed by charity and forbearance in measuring motive and personal character.

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