Job – Associate Managing Editor, Reworked (Remote)

Join the editorial team of this modern, fast-moving B2B media, events and research company.

The Reworked (www.reworked.co) editorial team is looking for an enthusiastic, entrepreneurial and collaborative team member to work side-by-side with its Editor in Chief as an Associate Managing Editor. This is a full time, full benefits, remote position based in the United States.

Reworked is a digitally native publication catering to a global readership of employee experience, digital workplace and talent management professionals. Its publisher, Simpler Media Group, also operates the CMSWire publication, a well respected research department, a number of podcasts and a set of popular industry conferences.

Should you join us, you will become a key member of a fun, high-performing, distributed team. While we are 100% remote, as travel normalizes in the future there will be group events and SMG conferences that will again become part of our normal course of work.

At SMG, it is our management mission to our employees to bring purpose, clarity and exciting new challenges to your work life.

Responsibilities

Job responsibilities include managing Reworked’s growing contributor community, editing, writing and collaborating on podcasts, editorial calendars and other outputs of the Reworked editorial team. You will work with editorial team members as well as a variety of external partners — our contributors — on a daily basis to approve or refine story pitches, provide article feedback, maintain deadlines and finalize edits. You will actively monitor and participate in the industry conversations on social media and use your social media participation to identify editorial opportunities (story ideas) and connect with new sources.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

  • Directly manage Reworked contributors, managing deadlines, feedback and review cycles, and keeping a close eye on overall content and contributor success
  • Manage the pipeline of new contributors, vetting candidates and onboarding approved candidates
  • Daily editing of contributor and other Reworked articles
  • Participation in editorial calendar ideation and updates
  • Participation in SMG’s persona development and interview processes
  • Support the EiC in overseeing Reworked’s network of freelancers writers 
  • Support the EiC in podcast production as needed 
  • Participate in SMG’s conferences and events as a moderator, speaker, etc.
  • Ideally you will also directly contribute content to Reworked on a monthly basis, as your comfort with the subject matter solidifies

Requirements

If you are driven to succeed and excited by the constant evolution of the modern workplace, you’re in the right place. If you’re ambitious and unwavering, but thoughtful and kind, you’ll fit right in. If you are excited about a diverse, global culture, then SMG is the perfect place for you.

You should be a highly self-motivated individual who is hungry to learn and rapidly advance your career. You should enjoy working remotely and be comfortable with modern digital workplace and collaboration tools such as Google Docs, Slack, Asana, etc. You should have significant professional editing and writing experience with B2B and/or scientific content, with a willingness to act upon feedback and direction. You should be passionate about helping bring high-impact stories to life and sharing them with a professional audience.

Specific Requirements Include:

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • 5+ years required of editing experience in journalism, content marketing, research or the equivalent
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to give constructive feedback
  • Willingness to revise work as needed
  • Significant experience (4+ years) writing or editing for a digital publication
  • Strong knowledge of SEO
  • An understanding of how to use imagery, videos and embedded elements to add context to content
  • Comfortable engaging and conversing with a broad mix of people
  • Familiarity with Google Workplace tools or the equivalent  
  • Experience with content management systems

Great to Have

  • Experience public speaking/presenting on webinars, podcasts or at in-person events (1+ year preferred)
  • Experience with survey design, data analysis or data journalism (1+ year preferred)
  • Familiarity with digital workplace technology (1+ year preferred)

The Perks

  • Competitive salary and full benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k)
  • Fast paced but great work–life balance, including approximately 32 paid days off and half-day Fridays year round
  • Flexible, remote-first work culture that is results / OKR-driven
  • A diverse team, flat management structure, agile business operations
  • Strong digital literacy skills across the organization
  • Opportunities to develop new skills and grow your responsibilities.

SMG Culture

The SMG team is fiercely proud of our positive, flexible, diverse, open-minded and agile culture. From recruitment to promotions, culture, mission and core values are placed front and center for all decision making.

Our core values: 

  1. Diversity
  2. Respect
  3. Balance
  4. Bionics
  5. Evolution
  6. Excellence
  7. Serendipity

Our organization is digitally native, distributed and virtual, and has been from its inception. We continue to embrace this approach to work and continue to hire the best fit talent regardless of where they are based. We are an outcomes-focused organization. We set team goals and work to provide our people with the resources they need to achieve them. How they get there and during what hours of the day is not a management priority. Read more: https://www.simplermedia.com/smg-culture/

About Us

SMG is a native digital B2B technology publisher and producer of high-impact research and a range of virtual and physical conferences. Our company mission is to accelerate the careers of our members through high impact knowledge, networking and recognition.

We serve an online audience of over 5 million community members spread across the globe, with the majority of our membership located in North America. We produce around 200 original editorial articles per month, regular podcast episodes, hundreds of webinars and host 3-5 in-person conferences per year.

SMG publishes Reworked and CMSWire, and produces the Reworked CONNECT and CMSWire CONNECT conference series.Want to know more? Check out our team: https://www.simplermedia.com/about/#team

Compensation

SMG offers a competitive base salary and highly competitive benefits package to full time employees.

Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 – $85,000.00 per year

Next Steps

Excited by what you’ve read? Great! We’d love to hear from you. Please take the next step and apply here: jobs@simplermedia.com