Digital Production Editor

Job description

**Job Description :**

The New York Post delivers the best in News, Sports, Entertainment and Pop Culture with wit, irreverence and authority.

Over the past 223 years, The Post has evolved into a multi-platform media company spanning print, digital, video, audio, app, television and commerce.

The New York Post is seeking a **Digital** **Editor** **(Tues-Sat, 7am-3pm)** to join our team.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an iconic media brand as it continues to experience exponential growth online.

The New York Post Digital Production team is responsible for optimizing every story that goes live on website.

The digital team has a hand in headlines, visuals, videos and story builds to ensure that it is up to The Post’s high standards.

**Responsibilities** **:**

+ Manage production and publishing of digital content, packaging each story with headlines and visuals that are uniquely New York Post.
+ Program the Post’s homepage at times, ensuring a balance of the most important, interesting and attention-grabbing stories of the moment
+ Use analytics-driven decision making, while also focusing on our core audience
+ Assist with breaking news, including sending out push notifications
+ Collaborate with reporters and editors across editorial departments
+ Serve as a point person for digital best practices
+ Pitch stories that are of interest to the Post audience across all sections

**Qualifications:**

+ 3-5 years of experience as an editor in an online news environment
+ Excellent editorial judgment and communication skills
+ Proven ability to write pithy, web-friendly headlines
+ Ability to leverage multimedia content to enhance stories and user experience
+ Experience using social media to find and promote stories
+ Familiarity with content management systems, photo editing software and web analytics tools

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_Note: The NY Post adheres to a hybrid work model._

At The New York Post we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company.

As a result, our ranges reflect our good faith estimate to pay fairly as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate’s experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

In addition to compensation, the company provides eligible employees a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including “elective” benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

As an equal opportunity employer, the New York Post does not discriminate in hiring or the terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

The New York Post will consider the provision of reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental disabilities of otherwise qualified applicants to enable them to participate in our application process and to effectively perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would impose an undue financial or operational hardship.

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Pay Range: $78,000 - $85,000

At the New York Post, we’re passionate about providing readers with the best in National News, Sports, Entertainment, and Lifestyle like only the Post can – with wit, irreverence and authority.

**OUR BRANDS:** Include The New York Post (https://nypost.com/) : expert news, extensive, award-winning sports coverage, and insider commentary, Page Six (https://pagesix.com/) : an influential leader in celebrity and entertainment news, Decider.com : helping the on-demand generation discover the best streaming content, and Alexa (https://nypost.com/alexa/) : our luxury lifestyle print edition focused on the best in luxury fashion, real estate and travel.

**OUR REACH:** People love us.

We are one of the largest growing digital networks, averaging over 90 million unique visitors a month! Our social footprint continues to expand across Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NYPost/) , Twitter (https://twitter.com/nypost) , Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nypost/?hl=en) , TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@nypost?lang=en) , and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@nypost/videos) , where our videos average 313 million monthly views.

**OUR PEOPLE:** The Post team is a group of diverse, creative, passionate minds – ever evolving and innovating.

We believe news doesn’t have to be boring to be news… so we make sure it isn’t!

**OUR GROWTH:** An ever evolving multi-platform media company, we span print, digital, video, social, podcast, app, commerce/affiliate, original TV programming, and Post Sports+ (https://nypost.com/account/subscribe) , our newly launched Sports membership experience!

**We’re growing.

Come join us!**

Required Skill Profession

Other General