360 Reviews Editor, Home Services

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Your role in helping us shape the future:

U.S. News empowers everyone to thrive. In this position you will have the opportunity to leverage your strengths and skills to help people make smart decisions about the things that really matter. You will be a key member of a fast-growing organization that will support our wide range of categories through your expertise in writing and editing.

This Editor position works on our Home Services team at 360 Reviews. They update existing categories and launch new ratings for 360 Reviews, focusing mostly on ratings and reviews content. Topics in this segment include home security systems, internet service providers, moving companies, and cell phone plans, among other consumer products and services. The Editor is one of our resident subject matter experts on Home Services topics, helping to elevate our content to the next level. The ideal person for this role has a burning desire to create high-quality, accurate, effective content with our readers’ best interests in mind.

The primary responsibilities of this role are creating and managing freelancer assignments, writing and editing. You’ll incorporate SEO best practices into every page using SEO tools and guidance from the SEO team. This position regularly collaborates with an enthusiastic team of editors, product managers, research analysts, and SEO analysts. Other responsibilities include working with spreadsheets, incorporating data and analyses into our content, reviewing and developing methodologies and working with CMS software.

The 360 Reviews team operates as a startup within the larger U.S. News organization, giving it a fast-moving, innovative culture, matched with the stability of an established and respected media company. Using unbiased, data-driven ratings, 360 Reviews covers consumer products and services as well as a range of business products. The Editor reports to a senior editor.

Though 360 Reviews is based in our Washington, D.C. office, this position is open to remote workers.

Are you up to the challenge?

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, curious, a compelling storyteller, a team player, and passionate about helping consumers. As part of the job, you will:

• Edit content for flow, consistency, accuracy, tone, AP style, grammar, and spelling.
• Write and edit content using SEO best practices.
• Create writing outlines that maximize SEO.
• Create and manage freelancer assignments.
• Build and manage a network of freelance writers.
• Collaborate with a research and data team to create accurate and helpful ratings of products and services.
• Review product pages and content to ensure top-quality, error-free work.
• Collaborate with an enthusiastic team of editors, product managers, research analysts, and SEO analysts.
• Use spreadsheets, tables, and sets of data.