Senior Executive Media seeks a seasoned, entrepreneurial Staff Writer to lead reporting on our DEI and Sustainability beats. Reporting to the Editor in Chief at the outset, this new role will craft content that reveals exclusive, valuable, mission-critical editorial insights and resources and reflects a keen understanding of the challenges and opportunities confronting executives in DEI and Sustainability today. This is an incredible opportunity to lead evolving conversations with pioneers in these emerging and important disciplines.
Senior Executive Media is a publisher of mission-critical insights and resources for senior executives — including founders, CEOs, and a variety of C-suite leaders — at public and private companies and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Steered by veteran, award-winning business journalists and digital editorial leaders, Senior Executive Media delivers engaging content cultivated from exclusive interviews and interactions with thousands of senior executives, thought leaders and subject-matter experts. Look for seniorexecutive.com and our First Fifteen email newsletter later this fall.
We expect our team, our audience, our suite of compelling editorial products, and our business all to grow rapidly in 2022. We’re a collaborative, accountable, and fully remote group that is looking for the next addition to our team to build great things together.
Community.co has pioneered the business of community for over a decade. We build, acquire and manage professional communities of all shapes and sizes. To date, we’ve represented 50+ communities and 25K+ members, powered by our team of 200 people worldwide.
Our communities include Forbes Councils, Newsweek Expert Forum, Rolling Stone Culture Council, Fast Company Executive Board, Business Journals Leadership Trust, and YEC, a council for the world’s most successful young entrepreneurs.
You are a seasoned, entrepreneurial reporter and writer adept at mining new industries for sources and stories and conveying actionable insights in crisp, plain English.
Key Responsibilities
· Lead coverage of new beats focused on the unique challenges confronting leaders in DEI and Sustainability
· Cultivate a broad list of sources to generate a steady flow of unique, timely content ideas and to support your reporting on various assignments
· Interview leaders and difference-makers across the DEI and Sustainability fields to appreciate what’s really challenging today’s senior executives and derive practical insights to share with our readers
· Write and report original content of varying lengths and formats for Senior Executive Media’s website and email newsletters to engage and serve existing audiences and attract new audiences via search, syndication, and social media
· Curate, update and/or rebuild top-performing content to maintain search rankings and re-engage readers
· Identify sources of valuable data and other assets that can feed exclusive databases and other digital tools/resources across our media platforms
· Stay up-to-date with business news and its implications for our audience of corporate leaders
· Contribute to the rapid expansion of Senior Executive Media — powerful new content franchises that enhance the brand, new and bigger and higher-quality audiences, new platforms
· Lead, develop and participate in teams across our remote workforce with an emphasis on building innovative culture, achieving department and organizational goals and objectives, and taking accountability for exceptional performance
· Minimum two (2) years of experience as a reporter or staff writer at a business publication
· Savvy, efficient interviewer capable of eliciting unique insights from time-challenged interview subjects and diving deeper to collect key details that show, don’t tell
· Polished, conversational writing style and an eagerness and ability to write frequently, on deadline
· Experience contributing to email newsletters is a plus
· Familiarity (if not fluency) with topics such as executive compensation, executive travel, employee and customer communication, growing a business, DEI initiatives and other critical concerns
· Demonstrated comfort level navigating and making the most of content management systems (CMS) to produce new and update existing digital content
· Superior organizational and collaborative abilities, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
· Excellent interpersonal skills
· Ready to thrive in a fast-moving, remote p environment
· A growing team with opportunities to develop with a thriving company
· Use new technology & solve interesting problems
· 100% remote, work where you want
· 401K with up to 4% company match
· Generous paid time off + all major US holidays
· Medical, dental, vision coverage [company pays $475 - $735]
· Technology reimbursement program
Application Details
· Apply here (to apply directly on the Careers page)
Please note that this job description is not designed to cover a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required for this role, and responsibilities may change at any time.
We are an equal opportunity employer.
At Community.co, we are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to promote inclusiveness in everything we do. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Community.co is also committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act [ADA]. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear and see. We will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.