Senior Editor - Online/Digital Media

"Hiring Senior Editors - Delhi"

The ideal candidate will have:

- Experience of working in a fast-paced, creative environment with a team of content editors/producers.

- Proven ability to choose from a wide range of stories and select those that offer the greatest currency and the deepest relevance with an unbiased and objective narration of the facts.

- A keen understanding of the best, most elegant writing offered by high-quality news outlets.

- Solid journalistic skills and strong knowledge of news/lifestyle topics of interest to an international audience.

- Attention to detail, an appreciation for strong visual presentation and a passion for editorial excellence.

- Ability to work with all kinds of content genres like text, pictures, graphics and videos.

- Extremely good knowledge of engaging with the audiences on social platforms.

- Sound knowledge of SEO.

- Ability to work with tight deadlines across a variety of shifts/days.

Key responsibilities include :

- Adopting and running editorial projects that can cater to a variety of markets.

- Ability to manage a team

- Determining the right content mix from partners across a variety of general interest news, finance, sports, entertainment and lifestyle topics.

- Creation of headlines and abstracts for promoting the contents across all entry points within the network and social media platforms.

- Programming across the content calendar while taking into account business priorities and determining the best way to achieve strong business results.

- Managing editorial process and workflow by adopting the content management system created by the company for this purpose.

- Working closely with technical teams when required to develop or enhance storytelling and publishing tools.

Basic qualifications :

- 8 - 10 years of editorial experience in online/digital journalism, ideally aimed at a national audience.

- Ability to work across boundaries towards shared objectives; results-oriented; passion around immersive content experiences.

- Experience with and keen understanding of online publishing tools and content management systems.

- 3+ years of using metrics-reporting packages to inform content programming and forecasting.

- Degree in journalism, communications or related discipline preferred.