Online Content Editor, India (6 months contract - renewable)

Job Description

Online Content Editor - (6 months contract - renewable)
Proficient in English, Hindi, Tamil and/or Marathi
Read something interesting online today? There's a good chance it reached you because of our technology.

Taboola is the world's leading content discovery platform, serving 360B recommendations to over 1B unique visitors each month on the web's most innovative publisher sites, including NBC, USA Today, The Weather Channel, Tribune and Fox Sports. Taboola recently announced a partnership with ZTE, a smartphone manufacturer, to create a new feature that will display recommended links on their phones.
We are hiring an Online Content Editor to focus on content intended for our English, Hindi, Tamil and/or Marathi speaking markets.
In this assignment,

• You will be responsible for reviewing news, and articles, and selecting items to include in the news feed offered to end users.
• You must be well-versed in the Indian realm of news, entertainment, politics, and popular culture, preferably an experienced journalist or editor from a digital media organization that focuses on a largely Indian audience.
• The editor/reviewer will be responsible for selecting articles to ensure news feed offered to end users complies with the following guidelines:
  • Content policy
  • Legal requirements
  • Recency
  • Relevance
  • Variety
  • Vertical/category diversity
  • Diversity of source

To qualify, you must be:

• Technologically savvy (knowledge with online tools, CRM, office productivity tools).
• Able to work independently, with clear goals but little supervision
• Fluent (reading, writing speaking) in Tamil, Marathi and English
• Deep familiarity with culture and current affairs in India
• Previous experience as a journalist highly preferred
• Individual with at least 3 years of experience (digital background preferred)

What is Taboola?

Taboola is the world’s leading content discovery platform, serving 360B recommendations to over 1B unique visitors each month on the web’s most innovative publisher sites, including the BBC, Axel Springer, LeFigaro, Evening Standard, NBC, USA Today and more!

Since our inception in 2007, Taboola’s team of ninja-like engineers and digital media experts has built the world’s largest and most advanced discovery platform – or “search engine just the other way around” – that provides more than a billion users each month with personalized recommendations on many of the most innovative and most visited websites on the internet.

Thousands of leading publishers (e.g. India today, Zee, NDTV) and media agencies use Taboola’s innovative technology to increase user engagement, monetize their traffic and distribute content to committed users on the web.

Today there are more than 1,400 taboolars around the world (and the number is growing) connecting users to content they might like but didn’t know existed. We have offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Paris, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, São Paulo, Shanghai, Tokyo and Bangkok

If this sounds like an interesting opportunity, hit (easy) apply!
Please submit your CV in English for consideration

All shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Taboola is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity in all forms. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and believe such an environment is critical for success. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.