Senior Editor, Travel | The Points Guy
Red Ventures
- New York City, NY
- $75,000-120,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Identify, assign and edit search-driven travel content that balances news and transaction-oriented user needs.
- Lead a team to produce high-quality, well-researched content at a fast pace.
- Draw on your vast freelance network to help us produce articles that help users find and book the right trips for their travels.
- Identify content needs, gaps and pain points - for both our audience and our content strategy.
- Stay on top of industry news and trends through an extensive dossier of sources.
- Create an optimized cadence for updating existing content (guides, news, etc.) for timeliness and accuracy.
- Edit internally and externally produced content in line with AP style and brand voice and tone. Check story drafts for errors, typos and linking opportunities.
- Prepare, upload, and maintain stories on TPG's content management system (WordPress).
- Manage workload of full-time and freelance writers, communicating opportunities to boost content quality.
- Mentor our developing writers and editors and coach them on best practices and our publishing process.
- Work closely with SEO and marketing analysts to develop a strategy to maximize content coverage and organic revenue.
- 6+ years writing/editing experience, ideally with an emphasis on travel.
- Deep stable of freelance writers whom we can vet and assign transactional posts on a regular cadence.
- Expertise in writing and editing for SEO.
- Extensive experience using Google Analytics, AHREFS, Semrush, or other data-inquiry tools to formulate both near- and long-term content strategy.
- Ability to adapt quickly to shifting priorities, keeping up with fast-paced content production processes while juggling multiple projects.
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with editors, designers, engineers, project managers, and web development teams.
- Passion about content creation with a track record of ideating and executing on innovative approaches to deliver on strategic goals.
- Dedication to leveraging technology to rapidly solve problems, create new opportunities and drive value.
- A desire to have fun while educating and informing TPG's audience about all travel-related.
- Familiarity with AP style and using content style guides.
- USA Compensation Range: $75,000.00-120,000.00
- New York City Compensation Range: $90,000.00-$144,000.00
- Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time Off
- Holiday Pay
- 401(k) with match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program