Social Media Editor
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About The Position
The New York Times Cooking and Food team is looking for a writer and editor with experience in journalism and managing social accounts to help shape and execute our editorial strategy on- and off-platform. The job requires excellent display copy writing skills and a data-driven approach. You will adapt and target our content for different surfaces and platforms, and for understanding and developing new strategies, tools and workflows as those platforms evolve. This means you’ll build our presence on Facebook, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok and other emerging platforms. You will also write compelling, clean copy for The New York Times and Cooking homepages, newsletters, push notifications and more. You will monitor news cycles, trends and off-platform conversations for ideas. And you will write and present your findings on what’s working to engage and grow our audience and what’s not. You will generate new ways to grow our audience. Strong, confident writing skills with excellent news judgment and compelling, entertaining tone are required. We are aiming to develop lasting relationships with our community by delivering quality content to readers wherever they are. Enthusiasm for playful experimentation, trying new ideas, bouncing back and tweaking on the go is a must, as is a desire to collaborate. This is a hybrid role is based in New York.
