Lead Editor, Pet Health (Remote)

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Forbes Advisor is looking for an editor with pet health and veterinary writing and editing experience to join the Forbes Advisor team as Lead Editor.

Pet Health. We’re looking to grow our reporting on pet health and veterinary services beyond pet insurance, and we want to help guide our readers to make the best choices through Q&As with licensed veterinarians, best-ofs, product reviews, engaging pet health content and data- and SEO-driven journalism. If you're looking for challenges and opportunities similar to those of a startup with the benefits of a seasoned and successful company, then read on:

Responsibilities:

• Help the VP of Content build and scale pet health content efforts, including managing the day-to-day, monthly and quarterly content workflow
• Find, recruit, and set up new licensed board members and staff writers. Train and support writers on how to use Forbes tools and style guides
• Work with the editorial and SEO leadership teams to build best practices for the Pet Health editorial team, including content, templates, imagery and social media standards
• Leverage data and SEO best practices to create monthly topics for writers that include explanatory content, expert Q&As, how-tos, roundups, best-ofs and product reviews
• Work collaboratively with the global content team, creating best practices worldwide for the space
• Edit and produce best-in-class editorial content
• Work with the methodology team to build methodologies to rate and rank related products and services for best-ofs
• Work with the data team to develop proprietary data sets on pet health and veterinary services and identify first-in-class existing data and its source in order to explore potential sharing arrangements
• Brainstorm and contribute to social content including features and original photography efforts

Requirements:

• At least 2 years experience in Pet Health journalism
• 3-5 years of experience in online journalism
• Demonstrably strong understanding of the veterinary space
• Experience with SEO best practices, willingness to learn and expand SEO skills
• Extremely organized and detail-oriented
• Nimble and open to quick changes in strategy

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