Editor, Cooking Product Strategy, NYT Cooking

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About the Role, Mission or Department Overview

The New York Times Cooking is looking for an editor with product development experience to help guide and execute our product strategy. You will collaborate with the entire editorial team, product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists, and research teams to improve our product experience with the most efficient workflows. 

You will be a liaison across the editorial team and business teams to ensure user needs are met at the highest possible level of quality and standards. You will track and communicate progress on projects between editorial and other teams, and work to quickly and thoughtfully identify and resolve inefficiency or pain points in the core workflows that support our goals and strategy. 

This is a hybrid position based in New York City and includes regular attendance in the office each week per your departmental guidance. 

Responsibilities:

• Creatively evolve the product experience and help develop our content strategy, with an eye toward editorial quality that drives audience and subscriber growth and retention. 
• Be a subject-matter expert on cooking media and recipes to inform product and business decisions; serve as liaison across teams.
• Develop and ensure implementation of testing strategies for on- and off-platform content to contribute insights and best practices for engaging audiences. Partner with editors and data analysts to report results. 
• Develop and ensure optimization of workflows for adding new digital assets and media types to our site and app that improve the user experience . 
• Advise and help drive the development of enhanced publishing tools. 
• Help develop and ensure optimization of editorial initiatives and act as a liaison with product, marketing, ad sales and other teams. 
• Work alongside taxonomists, engineers, SEO leads and others to evolve and optimize key workflows that inform user features 
• Partner with SEO editors to ensure alignment of relevant editorial strategy and associated workflows.
• Report on all product initiatives tied to editorial stakeholders, and share data and audience insights to strengthen business outcomes. 
• Communicate and ensure attainment of editorial standards to our partners throughout the company.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
• You will report to the deputy editor who oversees NYT Cooking. 

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as a digital strategist or senior editor in news or lifestyle media organizations. 
• 5+ years of experience managing cooking or related content with an understanding of the food and cooking media landscape
• Experience in recipe editing and the ins-and-outs of creating successful food articles and videos
• Experience bringing new digital products to life 
• Deep experience with content management systems and project management software (e.g., AirTable). 
• Experience in a deadline-driven environment 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with digital and content analytics tools (Google Analytics, Chartbeat) 
• Editorial judgment reflective of Times mission and principles.
• A passion for cooking 

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$100,000—$130,000 USD

 

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