Managing Editor - Commerce

Job Description

Who We Are Looking For

The Managing Editor juggles the work of all commerce editorial team members to guarantee a balanced, informative, and revenue-driven content cycle every day. You will ensure there is the right balance and production of evergreen features, deals coverage, sponsored content, and other shopping-related content pieces to ensure Digital Trends Media Group's place as a go-to for readers needing support in their purchasing process. The Managing Editor ensures comprehensive coverage of key commerce products, including best of roundups, deals and sponsored posts, and other revenue-driving content opportunities. The Commerce Team achieves revenue goals through content and other opportunities across multiple websites, and the managing editor will help the team hit its goals with your own revenue targets.

What You'll Do

• Help create, manage and maintain our commerce content calendar, and support staff and freelancers meet deadlines.
• Support Commerce editors with daily operations of team members in multiple locations with maintaining a constant flow of content across multiple websites
• Work with other teams and departments and represent Commerce editorial plans
• Increase new and incremental revenue for us through affiliate commissions and sponsorships with multiple content types.
• Performance analysis: gather the data, tease out applicable information, report results.
• Edit, update, and publish commerce-related content.
• Support Commerce team with ways to improve and optimize operations and revenue opportunities
• Manage and execute content strategies for tentpole shopping events (like Prime Day and Black Friday)
• Support Commerce editors in managing and allocating freelance budget to maximize content, guide editors in spending.
• Support with recruiting and developing new, diverse talent
• Create, manage and maintain training and how-to documents for all staff and freelancers
• Ensure high standards of excellence are met in our commerce coverage and editing

You Have

• College degree in journalism or related field.
• Experience managing a section, preferably more than one.
• Excellent writing and editing skills; able to write in a style that is interesting to the core audience.
• Performance-driven
• Experience in affiliate marketing
• SEO skills
• Experience working with web content management systems (WordPress preferred) and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Broad knowledge of the current tech landscape is a necessity.

What's In It For You

• Exceptional benefits package including: medical, prescription, dental and vision insurance, 401k, flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter transit and parking benefits, paid parental leave, sabbatical leave after 5 years of service, flexible paid time off, life insurance, company-paid short-term and long-term disability.
• Be a part of the solution, see our commitments here: Seven Point Plan to Meaningfully Address Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

About Us

Digital Trends Media Group (DTMG) is the world’s largest independent innovation media company. 200 million people each month engage with our network of tech and lifestyle media brands, influencing culture and igniting conversation around the ever-evolving worlds of innovation. DTMG’s core demographic is the HENRY (High Earners Not Rich Yet) millennial, whose sphere of influence spans generations. Through in-depth reporting, product reviews, and commentary that entertains as much as it informs, we speak to the audiences that matter most, about the innovation that deeply affect their lives.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.