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Executive Editor, Digital – Sports Illustrated
at The Arena Group (View all jobs)
United States
Arena: Sports Illustrated
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote
First Look – Executive Editor, Digital:
Sports Illustrated is seeking an Executive Editor, Digital to oversee our daily digital editorial team. The ideal candidate will be an innovative and experienced newsroom leader eager to strategically spearhead a transformation of Sports Illustrated’s everyday editorial mission. We are looking for a creative editor who can implement their vision, working with a large team of editors, writers and multi-platform content creators to refocus SI’s robust resources with an audience-first approach. As the Executive Editor, you will be responsible for developing, planning and assigning a wide range of coverage across all sports: exclusive reporting and rich storytelling in the S.I. tradition; original approaches to planned events; as well as quick-turnaround stories on sports-culture trends driving the social conversation.
The role reports into the GM of Sports Illustrated.
The Arena Group’s expected annualized base salary range for this position is currently $150,000-200,000. Actual salaries will vary based on multiple factors including, but not limited to location, education, experience, and other factors permitted by law. The listed salary range is but one component of The Arena Group’s total compensation and benefits available to its employees.
What You’ll DO:
- Lead digital editorial strategy with a team of at least three Assistant Managing Editors and a newsroom of 30+ editors, writers and content creators
- Develop and implement new editorial workflows that seek to capitalize on SI’s access, storytelling, and analysis, while driving audience engagement on trending sports topics via engaging lists, rankings and social aggregation
- Assist editors with story identification and headline creation that drive audience impact and traffic via search, social, newsletters and alerts
- Increase audience engagement by working closely with the Audience Development team to understand and analyze audience metrics, feedback, and trends. Utilize this data to inform content decisions, improve engagement, and optimize the user experience across Sports Illustrated’s digital platforms
- Collaborate with SI’s social and video teams for cross-platform storytelling that engages audiences and drives consumption across text, graphics, audio, video and social
- Set and maintain proficiency and knowledge on effective and efficient content-creation practices, editing best practices, search/social content and audience trends, and evolving audience-consumption habits
- Recruit and develop erse talent
What You’ll BRING:
- A minimum of 7-10 years of leadership experience in sports media, with a focus on digital content
- Ability to motivate and maintain a modern newsroom
- Lead and implement new innovative strategies, approaches, processes in an evolving content consumption and audience engagement environment
- Strong news judgment, paired with excellent organizational, communication and time-management skills
- Proficiency in social and SEO best practices
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in journalism, communications or English
Benefits At A Glance:
- Medical, Dental and, Vision Coverage
- Retirement Savings Plan (401K), with company match
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Commuter Benefits
- Reimbursement for business cell phone use per company policy
- Employee Stock Option Plan (Publicly Traded Company – AREN)
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- 12 Paid Holidays
The Arena Group (NYSE American: AREN) is an innovative technology platform and media company with a proven cutting-edge playbook that transforms media brands. Our unified technology platform empowers creators and publishers with tools to publish and monetize their content, while also leveraging quality journalism of anchor brands like Sports Illustrated, TheStreet, Parade, Men’s Journal, and HubPages to build their businesses. The company aggregates content across a erse portfolio of over 265 brands, reaching over 100 million users monthly. Visit us at thearenagroup.net and discover how we are revolutionizing the world of digital media.
The Arena Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable iniduals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.