Health and Parents is looking for an Associate Editorial Director to join the Commerce team to help grow revenue and our audience. Applicants may have a health background with an interest in parenting, parenting background with an interest in health, or experience in both verticals. This role reports to a Senior Director and works with the Growth/SEO and Editorial teams to manage and create the content strategy for our shopping content around news and deals, plus maintaining the content pipeline. This person will work to ensure our articles are accurate, inclusive, comprehensive, and accessible.

About the role:

• Drive editorial commerce news/deals strategy.

• Assign, edit, write, and publish content that is relevant to Health and Parents.

• Manage and source freelance writers with relevant backgrounds, and grow the PAR/HT teams to support the needs of the business.

• Prioritize day-to-day needs alongside special projects, and support your team’s goals, while also taking into account organizational priorities and changes.

• Analyze revenue and make both editorial and data-driven decisions based on your knowledge.

• Stay up-to-date on trends and topics in the vertical and use SEO tools and industry knowledge to help strategize next steps.

• Collaborate with and manage expectations of the commerce, editorial, growth, and social teams, including potential to contribute to shopping newsletters.

• Communicate effectively throughout the organization on your team’s goals and objectives.

• Assist with content strategy and execution around key tentpole events such as Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and various campaigns

About you:

• 5 to 7 years of editing experience at a digital-focused publisher

• 5+ years working in the commerce and affiliate industry

• Experience with SEO best practices and tools and how it relates to content

• Background with home content preferred

• Experience working in Skimlinks, Amazon Associates, and pulling revenue numbers

• Strong communication and organizational skills

• Management experience

• Proficiency in project management tools like Excel, Google Sheets, or Asana

• A track record of growth in your past roles

• Experience scaling copy and editorial operations in a high-growth environment

• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment

• Strong copywriter, capable of writing engaging, lively headlines and blurbs, all the while keeping a pre-defined voice in mind

We expect an Associate Editorial Director to apply these competencies to their role:

Communicate Effectively: Deliver effective communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Be an attentive listener, adapt to your audience, provide timely and helpful information, and encourage open expression of diverse ideas.

Resourcefulness: Secure and deploy resources effectively and efficiently. Apply resources to get things done, manage multiple activities, and get the most out of limited resources.

Business Insight: Keep up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends within the organization, the competition, and the marketplace. Use this knowledge to guide actions.

Optimize Work Processes: Know the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. Identify and/or create processes that allow managing from a distance, creates efficient workflows, and seeks ways to improve these processes.

Directs Work: Provide direction, delegation, and remove obstacles to get work done. Monitor progress through dialogue and feedback loops; providing appropriate guidance and direction and intervening as needed to remove obstacles.

Ensures Accountability: Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments. Follow through and ensure others do the same. Act with a clear sense of ownership and responsibility, design effective feedback loops and establish clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results.

Part of the Commerce Team spirit means embodying these core competencies:

Manage Ambiguity: Deal comfortably with change and can decide/act without the total picture. Remains calm and productive while dealing constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes

Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.

Self-Development: Actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels. Show a personal commitment to continuously improving, accepting stretch opportunities, and making the most of available development resources.

• About Us:

  
  Dotdash Meredith is the largest digital and print publisher in America. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. Dotdash Meredith’s over 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, Allrecipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living.

  
  Dotdash Meredith embraces inclusivity and values our diverse community. We are committed to building a team based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.The Company requires employees entering its workplaces, performing work offsite, or attending a company sponsored event to verify and provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination. The Company will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.