Newsletters Coordinator, NYT Wirecutter

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Job Description

About the Role

Wirecutter is seeking an Audience Coordinator to help grow and engage our audience through editorial newsletters. Wirecutter’s newsletters aim to delight and inform, providing readers with everything from shopping advice to cleaning advice and the best deals on Wirecutter-approved picks. 

As the audience coordinator, you will report to the Deputy Director of Newsletters and Programming and assist with the production and planning of newsletters and Wirecutter programming, including coordinating the newsletter promotion calendar, working with Wirecutter’s editorial and production team to deliver newsletters, and curating and scheduling newsletters for our audience. This role has the potential to be remote.

Responsibilities:

• Support production of Wirecutter newsletters from ideation to delivery

• Help identify content that will engage more readers through email

• Work with Wirecutter’s newsletter strategists to assign and produce newsletters

• Coordinate with internal teams to ensure newsletters seamlessly go through the editing and production process

• Load, QA, and schedule newsletters and programming across WC surfaces

• Support the launch or redesign of new Wirecutter newsletters

• Help document and refine Wirecutter’s newsletter workflow

• Help identify new and updated content for promotion across platforms outside of email

• Perform related work as assigned

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 1+ years experience in a role focused on writing, editing, and curating editorial newsletters

• 1+ years experience in engaging and growing audiences

• 1+ years experience with major email service providers

• 1+ years experience with analytics and insights platform

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passion for The New York Times’s and Wirecutter’s mission, and commitment to be a part of our innovation and growth

Please include your résumé/CV and a cover letter with your application. You can only upload one file in the “Résumé/CV” box, so please combine and upload your résumé and cover letter as one file.

This is a union position as classified by the News Guild of New York. 

The annual base pay range for this role is between $76,500.00 and $90,000.00.

Locations

Even with our office in New York City, Wirecutter remains a highly remote-friendly culture and is proud to employ incredible people across the country. Right now, we are eligible to hire in the following states: CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, ME, MA, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA.

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