Lead editorial coverage for the NFL desk, managing reporters and workflows across breaking news, long-form, live blogs and video. Set editorial vision and priorities, use engagement and subscription metrics to optimize coverage, collaborate with Visuals and Audience teams, maintain editorial budgets in Airtable, and edit/publish content in WordPress.
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About the Role
The Athletic is seeking a Senior Editor for its National Football League desk. This is a senior role in a fast-paced environment contributing to comprehensive editorial oversight of our NFL coverage, using data analytics to optimize performance, and partner across the editorial organization and business teams on a range of initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Manage a staff of reporters with an emphasis on the delivery of news and distinct team analysis; generate and plan story and video ideas.
- Establish process and priorities to balance content assignments that include breaking news, daily coverage, live blog contributions, long-form projects and video filming and editing.
- Assist with the big-picture, conceptual vision for the vertical, including long-term direction; generating and planning story ideas; expansion opportunities.
- Assist with overall NFL news decisions, coordination and editing.
- Work to bring a distinctive, compelling, and authentic voice to all digital media products.
- Maintain an understanding and proficiency of subscription and engagement metrics.
- Maintain proficiency and knowledge of SEO (best practices available).
- Contribute to oversight of staffing assignments, editorial resources and process.
- Maintain an updated and accurate forward-looking editorial budget on Airtable.
- Collaborate with staff on story and video ideas.
- Collaborate with the Visuals team on best execution for stories with a clear visual element.
- Collaborate with Audience team on headlines, URLs and best publication times.
- Edit and publish stories via WordPress
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional experience in sports journalism, including direct editorial management of writers.
- High-end knowledge of the NFL.
- Ability to work nights, weekends and holidays, as needed.
- This is a remote-based position in the United States or Canada
The annual base salary range for this role is $80,000.00 - $90,000.00 USD. The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location.
For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.
We are excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process. If you are a candidate for a technical role, we will let you know what specific tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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