Senior Editor, Fantasy Content
DraftKings is a leading sports entertainment brand that creates the most exciting digital sports competitions and experiences on the planet. Our goal is to transform the way fans experience sports. Our mission is to make sports better – and make better sports fans – by bringing them closer to the games they love. We are the signature tech startup of our generation in Boston.
DraftKings is seeking a highly experienced editorial candidate to help oversee the day-to-day production of content across its platforms. The Senior Editor will bring strong journalistic practices to a growing group of writers, producers and on-air talent, serving as a key oversight across a range of fantasy content. He/she will play a dually creative and operational role, driving the growth of new concepts and features while managing daily workflows around creation of content on the site. This role will contribute heavily to both the editorial direction of the site and the process through which it is executed.
Responsibilities:
- Manage both full-time and freelance talent to maximize breadth of coverage for a best-in-class news and fantasy content offering.
- Serve as an editorial lead in driving daily editorial operations, including:
- Assigning stories and features to individual writers.
- Workshopping concepts with both individual writers and full-time talent.
- Coordinating work on various initiatives with other editorial stakeholders.
- Manage short and long-term editorial calendar, budgeting content production around both talent and optimized user engagement.
- Serve as critical editorial leader for DK Live -- newly launched real-time news/information app. Drive news consumption and engagement through streamlining editorial operation and process.
- Develop new content concepts to serve various business ends, including new user acquisition, engagement, retention, social sharing and sponsorship opportunities.
- Create and iterate on editorial process to ensure accuracy, consistency and efficiency.
Qualifications & Skills:
- A minimum of 7+ years experience on the editorial side of a major journalistic enterprise.
- At least 2 years of Management experience; must be capable of setting direction and providing feedback.
- Extremely strong knowledge of core journalistic/reporting frameworks.
- Diverse experience in content production across platform, including written, video, audio, photo.
- Proven success in growing audience and engagement for a well-regarded content platform.
- Deep comfort with the world of fantasy sports and with the sports/entertainment space overall.
- Significant work experience in a fast-paced newsroom with high production targets.
- Strong organizational skills critical; must be able to juggle multiple projects, ongoing pipelines.
- Strong appreciation for audience growth tactics: digital marketing, SEO, SEM, etc.
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to effectively collaborate with business, marketing and technology teams.
- Masters Degree in Journalism preferred; substantial newsroom experience a must.