Senior Editor

The Atlantic is seeking a senior editor with exceptional writing and editing skills to join the newsroom’s audience engagement team. The team’s mission includes maximizing the reach and impact of our journalism, cultivating relationships with readers, and building habit on our storytelling platforms.

This editor will find the clearest and most compelling language to promote The Atlantic’s journalism across platforms. They will have a strong editorial judgement, possess a sharp eye for grammar, work quickly between stories, and help guide other team members in improving their skills. This editor will have extensive experience writing, editing, and copy editing language in a newsroom. Their work will focus on helping new and existing readers to understand the value and power of the ideas, arguments, and expertise that have animated our writer-driven publication since its founding in 1857. The role will at times involve weekend, night, and early-morning work.

Responsibilities will include: 

• Oversee the daily distribution of The Atlantic’s journalism, with a focus on ensuring magazine-quality share text on our app, home page, newsletters, and social media platforms
• Ensure high-quality, rapid promotion of stories, including breaking news and features, and social videos
• Directly supervise one or more audience editors
• Write, edit, and post presentation copy for Atlantic stories on all platforms
• Work with editors to maximize efforts on audience team initiatives, which may include newsletters, podcasts, video production, reader engagement, evergreen recirculation, and more
• Work with the Audience Insights team to test and evaluate performance across all platforms, communicate insights to the team and the newsroom, and continually sharpen best practices
• Support with team operations, which may include liaising with other departments, leading newsroom presentations, and more

Qualifications of a successful candidate include:

• 10+ years experience of writing, editing, or operating news-branded social media accounts or digital platforms
• Previous management experience
• Scrupulous attention to detail, including writing structure, mechanics, grammar, and spelling 
• Advanced editorial judgment
• Strong understanding of the media landscape, including emerging platforms
• A collegial, energetic, “yes and” approach to problem solving and creative endeavors
• The ability to manage time, communicate clearly both up and down management lines, accomplish both discrete tasks and longer-term projects on deadline, and switch easily between different duties
• Critical thinking, attention to process, and an appetite to experiment and explore

Salary minimum: $105,000; Salary maximum: $125,000

This position is based in New York City or Washington, D.C.

About The Atlantic:

The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.

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The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities. We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.  

Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy. The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.