Associate Editor, Wonder Brands (Remote)

About Optimism

Optimism is a digital publisher working to build a brighter web. We conceive, launch, and operate high-quality digital brands that spark curiosity, spread positivity, and improve the lives of our readers. With an email-first approach, our hope is to transform the inbox into a healthy alternative to social media feeds, a place where you can curate the news, information, and entertainment you truly want.

Our brands populate a variety of categories: Games, Wonder, and Travel, among others. This distributed approach helps us reach 3 million subscribers across our network and serve more than 30 million web sessions each month. And we’re growing with each new brand.

About Associate Editor, Wonder Brands

As an Associate Editor, you will join a dynamic editorial team with fresh ideas and diverse perspectives. You will manage the production of content for brands within our Wonder division, with a focus on our brand Inspiring Quotes. This role includes establishing and managing a reliable network of freelance writers, assigning pieces and accepting pitches, fact checking, and editing content for publication. It also includes writing content for our daily email sends, including a Quote of the Day with an associated write-up. You will set a strategic direction for each brand that you manage, while working to achieve greater efficiency, quality, and content performance.

Accountabilities

• Brand ownership. Overseeing all content that is produced and distributed on your brands and the user experience that subscribers are having on web and in email.
• Content production. Building and maintaining monthly editorial calendars, working with freelancers, and managing processes to produce and distribute content, the majority of which will be web articles and email digests.
• Editorial quality. Ensuring your brands deliver high-quality, aligned content across all platforms, including web and email. Executing style guidelines, brand voice, and quality standards that are consistent and distinctive.
• Business performance. Understanding the role content plays in keeping the brand engaging and profitable. Leveraging data and insights to make informed decisions that lead to stronger key metrics, including click-through rate and time on site.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a writer or editor within a digital publishing company.
• Proven aptitude as a detailed-driven editor with high standards for prose and accuracy.
• Superior writing, copy-editing, and line-editing skills.
• Basic fact-checking skills, including an understanding of what qualifies as a good, reliable source.
• Ability to collaborate with and manage a diverse team of contributors.
• Ability to remain organized and efficient when there are many moving parts and priorities.
• Ability to use and interpret data to inform editorial decisions, which results in producing high-engaging content.
• Ability to think through the lens of our audience and produce content that resonates with them.
• Understanding of AP style.
• Passion for quotes, books, and curiosity-inducing content.
• Proactive and collaborative low-ego work style; you love working with people and people love working with you.

Our Commitment

We aim to provide equal opportunity for all. We are firm believers in the strength of diversity and aim to build teams of individuals that offer unique perspectives, come from different backgrounds, and challenge each other to be better every day!