Health & Fitness Editor

This is a Full Time Job

Why Hearst Magazines?

Hearst Magazines' portfolio of more than 25 powerful brands in the U.S. - including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics - inspires, entertains and builds new and bold experiences for an engaged and growing audience across digital, video, social and print , reaching nearly 139 million readers and site visitors each month. With sophisticated content creation, cutting-edge technology and industry-leading data capabilities, we make media and products that move people across all platforms.

We are a global media company that publishes nearly 260 magazine editions and 200 websites around the world and, t ogether, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.

Your Impact

Hearst's Enthusiast Group-with great brands Popular Mechanics, Runner's World, Best Products, and Bicycling-seeks an energetic, driven, and detail-obsessed Health & Fitness Editor to find and create stories across our sites, magazines, social feeds, and all other channels. Working within our Service team, the Health & Fitness Editor will contribute to the overall content flow for digital.

Specifically, you will serve as a vital part of the Runner's World and Bicycling brands on a daily basis. You should have knowledge or interest in health, fitness, or nutrition, following trends and products, have a love for providing information that helps people live a healthier, happier life. You'll stand out by displaying a willingness to create and target content to surpass performance metrics-stories with a discrete goal on membership conversion and new users-each day. A background in the core interests for each of our brands is highly recommended: health and fitness, nutrition, cycling culture, running culture.

Please note that for consideration, resumes must be submitted in pdf format with a cover letter, salary requirements, and a link to a portfolio of work.

What you'll do:
• Under direction of the Deputy Editor of Health & Fitness, originate and write content that meets performance metrics
• Stay on top of breaking news, health trends, new workouts, and the latest buzzy stuff happening in our space
• Contribute to our regular web marquee projects, such as our Master the Marathon video series and other projects in our pipeline
• Write and update SEO-driven topics, including making both minor and significant updates to existing articles
• Craft attention-grabbing headlines to reach our current audience while also thinking of how to reach new users

Qualifications:
• At least 3-4 years experience working for a digital media brand, ideally in the health/wellness/fitness space or service-oriented brand
• You are a strong writer and reporter who delivers clean, concise, and factually correct copy on deadline
• Ability to pitch and report original pieces on a daily basis to meet overall content goals - including service, and evergreen
• Demonstrated experience publishing digital content within a CMS
• You are a self-starter with enthusiasm for health and wellness, organized with a sharp attention to detail, and a team player
• Willingness to adapt to fast-changing priorities
• Ability to thrive under multiple projects while meeting tight deadlines
• Bachelor's degree

This is a position covered under the Writers Guild of America, East, Collective Bargaining Agreement.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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