Job Title Editor
Job Description About Your Role Health.com is seeking an editor to join our team of health and editorial enthusiasts. If you are a highly organized, editorially driven, digitally savvy content expert who is dedicated to health information, this could be the job for you.
This role will be focused on editing evergreen or news articles, recruiting and managing freelance writers, and working on content programs with the full editorial team. You'll work directly with our Senior Editors and Editorial Director, Growth/SEO, and the Content Quality teams to develop, edit, and update health articles, ensuring that our content is accurate, up to date, and comprehensive. You will be part of a fast-growing and collaborative team.
About Your Contributions- Assign, edit, and publish search-optimized and writer-pitched evergreen or news articles
- Recruit, onboard, and manage a diverse pool of freelance health and medical writers who can cover health topics from a lens that impacts different communities
- Understand the brand's style and edit with the brand voice top of mind
- Edit work to ensure alignment with our article templates and content briefs, and create article templates for certain topic areas
- Provide feedback to content strategists on SEO and editorially driven content briefs
- Partner with editorial team and SEO on content initiatives, including assessing keywords
- Work with the editorial team to help shape and define editorial strategy, increase audience, and drive user engagement
- Track issues that arise and discuss with team members to address and resolve
- Participate in team meetings to contribute to shared content goals and strategy
About You- 3-5 years of experience developing online editorial content and working with content management systems, including 2 years of experience editing freelance writers
- Must have experience with health content (specifically related to disease, conditions, and treatment) and understand specific nuances surrounding sourcing and credibility
- Detail-oriented and deadline-focused with solid editing skills, as well as a deep understanding of what works on the web
- Strong copywriter, capable of writing engaging, lively headlines and blurbs, all the while keeping the brand voice in mind
- Familiarity with SEO best practices
- Skilled at translating confusing health language into consumer-friendly, engaging copy
- College degree, preferably in journalism or communications a major plus
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