Ranker is looking for a hard-working, fast-moving, internet-obsessed Director, Editorial Strategy & Operations to join and lead our editorial team. Our ideal candidate is a lifestyle and pop culture junkie with experience leading content and strategic direction for an editorial team. You’ll be mentoring editors and designing projects to build content at scale, based on data-driven decision-making.
If you’re skilled at shaping editorial strategy, leading daily news cycle, and an expert in the market, we want to talk to you!
Responsibilities:
- Oversee all content and traffic delivery for our site
- Use Google Analytics, Omniture Site Catalyst and internal data sources to track key metrics and use those findings to shape and direct our content strategy
- Manages editorial managers at a top level as well as on
- Oversee all Editorial process and tools and make modification and efficiencies where needed
- Compile and analyze data to inform editorial decisions.
- Deploy SEO best practices to optimize content and assist in mentoring direct reports on best practice changes.
What we’re looking for:
- 7+ years of experience in digital media, writing/editing, or a related field.
- Experience with setting content strategy and leading a team
- Strong writing and communication skills
- Strong familiarity with social media
- Demonstrated leadership and people management skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing, collaborative team environment
- Ability to stay ahead of trends and adapt to a constantly changing digital landscape
- Broad knowledge of a ton of different topics, ranging from pop-culture, anime, sports, the newest shows on Netflix, etc... basically a one-stop-shop of random trivia that the Internet loves to talk about, and the ability to come up with a decent ranking of various topics.
Ranker is a
Top 40 destination for crowdsourced rankings on everything from films to food. We believe that the opinion of millions is more relevant (and far more predictive) than the opinion of one critic. Ranker consistently delivers 40 million worldwide unique visitors, and outranks nearly every consumer site in minutes spent per visit according to comScore (4+ mins per visit). Visitor engagement is the center of Ranker, which collects over 15 million monthly votes across more than 100K lists including extremely competitive searches like “
best movies of all time” (which has over 4.3MM votes alone).