Description
Position at Everyday Health - Consumer
The Opportunity
Everyday Health Group is looking for an Assistant Editor passionate about health, fitness, nutrition and wellness to assist the commerce team by researching products and services, creating and editing new content, and optimizing existing content to enhance audience engagement. In this role, you’ll curate product and service lists, help recruit and manage freelance writers and product testers, send out assignments, help edit drafts and maintain the quality and efficiency of our commerce editorial operations.
Key Responsibilities
Help manage the editorial content pipeline, shepherding content through workflows involving freelance writers and editors, medical reviewers, copyeditors, affiliate managers, photo editors, and fact-checkers.
Maintain the commerce product and service research databases, testing notes, and photo permissions to enhance the efficiency of our commerce editorial
Assign new articles and updates to a roster of freelance writers and enforce deadlines
Help recruit new freelancers and manage communications between the EHG commerce team and freelancers
Secure products for product testing and images for inclusion in our content.
Edit new articles and ensure all content meets our editorial standards and style guidelines
Optimize existing content, as needed, to keep up with evolving SEO best practices and enhance audience engagement
Assist with PR outreach and communication as needed
Test health products and services as needed
Write product reviews and other commerce content as needed
Job Qualifications
1-3 years of digital editorial experience — health, fitness, or wellness journalism experience preferred
Experience with service journalism, commerce, affiliate, or branded content is a plus, as is experience with news and deals content, newsletters, and/or syndicated content
Strong understanding of SEO best practices
Experience working in a CMS
Familiarity with project management software; AirTable experience preferred
Strong organizational skills, project management skills, professionalism, and attention to detail
Ability to meet deadlines and enforce deadlines with freelancers according to an editorial calendar
Experience with PR outreach and communication
Passion for health, fitness, nutrition, wellness and/or mental health news, products, and trends
Eagerness to learn
Comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a remote work environment
Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Journalism, English, Communications, Marketing, Public Health, Science, or a related field
About Everyday Health Group
Everyday Health Group (EHG) is a recognized leader in patient and provider education and services attracting an engaged audience of over 74 million health consumers and over 890,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians. Our mission is to drive better clinical and health outcomes through decision-making informed by highly relevant information, data, and analytics. We empower healthcare providers, consumers and payers with trusted content and services delivered through Everyday Health Group’s world-class brands.
Our Culture and Values
We created our values together to guide our collective purpose and pursuits. We are collaborators and problem solvers. We empower one another to make informed decisions and to be enabled towards action. We embrace success. We recognize that innovation can spark and be born from any of us no matter our individual role or background. We encourage open mindedness and sensitivity to each other and our environment. Our personal and professional passions get ignited, nurtured and supported. We value that doing is greater than talking as the most measurable means of impact. Our collective purpose to deliver enlightened audience experiences with trusted brands is what drives the success of our business and our professional satisfaction.
Life at Everyday Health
At Everyday Health Group, a division of Ziff Davis, we work in a culture of collaboration and welcome those who desire to join our growing global community. We believe in careers versus jobs and people versus employees. We seek enthusiastic individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit looking for an environment that rewards your best work.
Everyday Health offers competitive salaries in addition to robust health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, Flexible Spending accounts, 401(k) with company match, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Pregnancy and Parental leave, Family Planning Support via Maven, Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, Fitness Reimbursement as well as employee-focused engagement and education programs, including Employee Resource Groups and company-sponsored events. If you’re seeking a dynamic, flexible work environment where you can see the direct impact of your performance, then Everyday Health is the place for you. Everyday Health Group has employees located in 40+ states as well as offices in NYC, Asheville, Boston, London, England and Mumbai, India.
Everyday Health Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees.
Note: The salary compensation for this role is $50,000 to $65,000. Individual pay within the compensation range for this business unit specific role is determined based on a variety of factors including experience, scope of the role, capabilities to perform the role, education and training, as well as business and company performance.
