Job Details
Overview:
InvestorPlace.com, a fast-growing site with 10mm+ monthly readers, is searching for a passionate Web Editor to join our team! The Web Editor forms the backbone of our editorial operation.
At first, well ask you to edit and publish eight or more articles a day about the stock market and investing in our WordPress CMS, with particular attention to our SEO strategy. Youll be an important member of our editing team that publishes more than fifty articles a day that we source from freelance writers. As you ramp toward these goals, we'll also encourage you to get comfortable sending feedback to those freelancers, to more broadly boost the quality of article we bring to readers.
Next, youll start testing your own ideas to make us better. This could include working even more closely with writers, experimenting with new areas of content, trying a new style of headline or redesigning our emails to try and increase audience engagement. Well demand that you measure success with data, but will encourage you to experiment in ways that will teach you new skills and give us new insights into our readers.
Along the way, InvestorPlace.com will teach you digital media skills that will help you shine. Well also give you a valuable education in money and markets, and how to maximize your personal finances.
Familiarity with stock market terminology is a plus, but not a prerequisite (most people dont know a stock from a bond when they arrive here). Preference will be given to candidates with at least three years of digital media experience.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the last line last line of defense in thwarting logical fallacies, cleaning up rough grammar and ensuring complete factual accuracy
- Edit at least eight articles a day in our WordPress CMS, with most pieces running about 750 words in length. This involves editing heavily for clarity and accuracy and spend a lot of energy tweaking headlines to resonate with our audience and ensure our content tops Googles first page
- Optimize articles to attract organic search traffic
- Work with freelance writers to identify and improve shortcomings in their stories, to help them write their best work possible
- Assist with additional strategic design projects utilizing Photoshop and Dreamweaver
Qualifications:
- At least three years of professional experience
- Demonstrated experience editing the written word
- Past experience working with WordPress or similar Content Management System is a plus
- Strong interest in the news
About InvestorPlace
InvestorPlace is one of the largest, smartest, fastest moving financial publishers on the planet.
Started over 40 years ago, we publish detailed research and recommendations for self-directed investors, financial advisors and money managers.
The InvestorPlace business model is very straightforward: We publish our ideas (via a subscription model) with the aim of enriching and educating investors. If we do our jobs well, our customers stick around. Its a simple, transparent business model investors have loved since the 1970s.
InvestorPlace editors and analysts have varied backgrounds in the financial industry. They have worked as hedge fund managers, financial advisors, and securities analysts.
Many of the worlds top media outlets have taken notice of our ideas over the years. The work of our analysts has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Bloomberg, Time, MarketWatch, Barrons and USA Today.
Inside our companys DNA, youll find a relentless focus on respectfulness, hustle, hard work, adaptability, clear communication, data analytics, open mindedness, and creativity.
> The overall #1 finance writer when measured by profit of his picks
> 5 of the top 20 finance writers by the same measure
And the site overall was ranked:
> #1 for Best Financial Blog by Success Rate (59% of our picks were profitable over one year);
> #1 for Best financial Blog in Comparison to the S&P500 (our return outpaced the S&P by 6% over the last year)
> #2 for Best Financial Blog by Average Return (9.3% average return on our stock picks)
Our Commitment
As an employer committed to equal opportunity and a diverse workforce, all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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