theSkimm

Were hiring a Senior Editor, News, to join our team. This is a full-time hybrid New York City based position. This position works Sunday PM-Thursday PM. 

About our team & what you'll be working on

theSkimm is looking for a sharp senior editor to lead its core editorial product, the Daily Skimm newsletter. The ideal candidate is a seasoned journalist with demonstrated talent in & love of writing, curating, & editing news, has a strong command of how news stories impact women, & has exceptional editorial & news judgment. 

This person will need to be a thoughtful & detail-obsessed line-editor who deeply understands theSkimms voice. This role sits on our editorial team & reports to theSkimms Editorial Director, News. 

What you'll be doing

• Oversee all aspects of the Daily Skimm newsletter, targeted at millennial women
• Work closely with the writers & editors to produce the daily newsletter. You will edit, occasionally rewrite, & provide feedback on their work
• Run daily pitch meetings, set the newsletter lineup, & assign stories
• Manage & mentor a team of editors & writers
• Make editorial decisions around how we cover stories & how we navigate complex topics, with an eye for precision, nuance, & sharp writing
• Serve as key point of contact for the newsletter, working with the wider editorial team & other departments across the company

What were looking for

• 7+ yrs experience as a journalist working in a newsroom setting
• 1+ years in a manager/editor role
• A love of news & of explaining complex stories
• Sharp news judgment & the ability to curate a newsletter for our target audience
• Excellent management & communication skills
• A strong eye for fact-checking, research, & data analysis
• Exceptional organizational & time management skills
• A team mindset & a love of creative collaboration
• Someone with a knowledge of the newsletter landscape, with an eye for product innovation

What would set you apart

• Experience writing in a particular brand voice 
• A strong sense of humor
• Fluency in data analysis

The expected annual base salary for this role is $105,000-115,000. Well consider a variety of factors when determining the offered base salary including an evaluation of a candidates skills, abilities, experience, location, market demands, & internal parity.

About the office

Our office is available to use three days a week - Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday. We have a hybrid environment & ask that employees within the New York Metro area come together in person a minimum of three days per month. All other days are up to the discretion of the employees during the three days a week that the office will be open. 

Why our employees love working here

We are mission driven & values driven:

We are collectively building an impactful brand to empower generations of informed, confident women. Our vision is for every woman to have the info they need to navigate a complex world & the decisions in it. Every role has a purpose & allows us to provide useful information succinctly & contextualized. We tee her up to take action - whichever action is right for her, wherever she is.

We are values driven at every point - how we work, the way we work & our culture come straight from our core values. Each of us supports this incredible brand & takes part in its continued growth, fulfilling the needs of our audience each & every day.

We put you & your personal lives first - we have a generous benefits policy that demonstrates we are listening to what our employees need:

• Unlimited vacation policy & generous holiday observances
• Encouraged time off on your birthday & Skimmversary 
• A hybrid working model with flexibility for remote work
• Comprehensive insurance plans & commuter benefits
• Auto-enrollment into an Empower 401(k) plan starting on your first day & employer contribution available after one year of employment 
• Rewards for every work anniversary
• One month paid sabbatical after your five year Skimmversary as a full-time employee

We support our parents at all points on their journey: 

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave (adoption, fostering & surrogacy included)
• Bereavement leave for pregnancy loss
• Phased return to work schedule availability
• Flexibility based on parental schedules
• Access to family building & fertility benefits
• Flexible & broad-scale child support program

Your well being is our priority: 

• We honor Sacred Time in our workplace
• We have aligned company time off during the summer to truly allow for us all to break from our work at the same time
• We offer fitness membership reimbursement
• One Medical Membership is included with our benefits

We have a vibrant, collaborative, & supportive culture (we celebrate & have fun!):

• Weekly company updates led by our executive team
• Employee Resource Groups
• Annual employee award ceremony to celebrate individual accomplishments
• Clubs & activities designed to meet other employees like book clubs, new hire buddy programs, off-sites, & wellness focused classes
• Numerous culture events that enable our workforce, in the office & remote, to connect & have fun

Your career & development are a priority: 

• Annual learning & development stipend
• LEAD@theSkimm, our leadership development program
• DEI initiatives to ensure we are the best partners & colleagues to each other
• Career development guidance & planning

And more

• Competitive salary & equity packages
• The opportunity to be part of a values-driven, hardworking, & diverse group of people building a media company that makes it easier to live smarter

Our story, Skimmd

We are a digital media company, dedicated to succinctly giving women the information they need to make confident decisions. We make it easier to live smarter.

At our core, we are writers, editors, producers, designers, marketers, engineers, analysts, sellers, creatives, & strategists all working together to achieve this goal.

Every day were breaking down the news, trends, policies, & politics that impact women so that they can navigate their daily lives & futures from managing their paychecks to casting their ballots with confidence.  We provide our dedicated audience of millions with reliable, non-partisan, information, informing & empowering them while fitting into their daily routines. 

Since disrupting the media landscape & defining a new category a decade ago, we have become a trusted source for our audience of millions by seamlessly integrating into their existing routines, fundamentally changing the way they consume news & make decisions. Today theSkimm ecosystem includes the Daily Skimm, the Daily Skimm: Weekend, Skimm Money & Skimm Your Life newsletters, B2B marketers newsletter The SKM Report, 9 to 5ish with theSkimm podcast, theSkimm mobile app. We also house Skimm Studios which creates innovative in-house video & audio content, & our in-house creative agency SKM Lab, which conceptualizes, develops, & produces innovative solutions & content for brands to engage with generations of informed women. Our first book, How to Skimm Your Life debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. Through Skimm Impact, our purpose-driven platform, we are proud to support get-out-the-vote efforts with Skimm Your Ballot, which has spurred more than two million voting-related actions across the last four election cycles. We have mobilized hundreds of companies to join our #ShowUsYourLeave movement, which has created transparency & pushed for progress for Paid Family Leave in the U.S. And were empowering women to take agency of their lives & control of their futures through our State of Women initiative, grounded in a study conducted by The Harris Poll.

Come join us!

Learn more about us & our other opportunities here.