Overview

We’re looking for a lead editor to cover home office products and software and other tech gear, including but not limited to batteries, USB power products, and solar.

Tasks:

  • Project manage the creation of new guides, updates, and supplementary content. Works with senior editor and executive editor to develop and execute strategy for the home office section and other tech coverage as needed.
  • Recruit and assign projects to freelance and staff writers as needed
  • Coordinate photos and other assets for content.
  • Write short form and occasional long form content as required.
  • Pitch ideas for short and long form content
  • Manage staff writers as direct reports and freelance writers on a per project basis.
  • Contribute original ideas to test planning, suggest creative reporting strategies, challenge writers’ assumptions
  • Interact with our reader community through multiple channels, including social, comments, and email.

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of experience working at a media company with a focus on reviews of products or services (not news or blogging) with at least one year of experience managing writers.
  • Willing to travel occasionally to conferences and company meetings
  • Network of freelance writers
  • Network of PR reps
  • Experience with creating tests for product reviews
  • Excellent communication skills in a remote work environment
  • Strong editing skills, ability to rein in projects with big scope
  • Ability to think creatively about tests

Working conditions

Work from home with a remote team that meets on video regularly. Prefer someone based in New York

Direct reports

Staff writers (2; shared)

Freelance writers

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About The Wirecutter

The Wirecutter, and its associated sites, are about helping people find the best gear to buy using dozens of hours of research of all available sources and our own testing.

What’s different in how we do things is our directness in recommending people exactly what we would buy ourselves or recommend to our loved ones--we don’t ask people who are looking for our advice to click through multiple pages of reviews or meaningless industry news to exploit them for advertising inventory. We just give them our recommendation in a single page, and the evidence of why that is and why they should believe us, and let them them get on with their lives. It's that simple.

You may be aware that we run our company in service of our readers. Less known is our commitment to the people with which we work. We ask everyone who works here to be effective, to be efficient, and to move the needle every day.

In exchange, we offer you the ability to work from wherever on your own hours for competitive pay at a reasonable pace. We love working with people who can get it done in a world-class way and can communicate well with a team, and who know how to enjoy a balanced life outside of work.

Salary and perks: Although we are a small, bootstrapped company, we pride ourselves in offering competitive compensation including, but not limited to, healthcare coverage, PTO, and a flexible work schedule. We want to make sure every employee is happy and has the tools, resources, and knowledge to grow with the company.