Job Description
Title: Deputy Editor, Reviews & Commerce, The Verge
Location: Remote (US Only)
Category: The Verge
Job Description:
The Verge is seeking a Deputy Editor, Reviews and Commerce, to oversee a crucial piece of our editorial and business strategy and to manage a large team of editors, reviewers, and writers. The Verge is the only publication in the world that can connect the forces that shape the technology world with the actual everyday experience of using consumer tech products. Our expertise across coverage areas feeds into our industry-leading reviews program, where we can not only help people decide what to buy, but how to understand the choices in front of them.
In a consumer technology market that is increasingly concentrated and shaped by a handful of big companies, The Verge’s reviews program is an essential and relentless advocate for actual people — whether it’s comparing smartphone cameras or laptop keyboards, or paying attention to privacy policy agreements, the Verge Reviews program is rigorous, thoughtful, and deeply integrated into the larger context of technology and culture.
WHO WE ARE
The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011 to examine how technology will change life in the future for a massive mainstream audience. The Verge is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s possible.
As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
As Deputy Editor for Reviews and Commerce, you will be primarily responsible for assigning, writing, and editing reviews of consumer tech, buying guides and how-to articles. You will directly manage a Senior Reviews Editor, Commerce Editor, and a team of reviewers and commerce writers. You will collaborate closely with other editors on how to cover product news, announcements, and analysis. You will partner with Verge leadership and other company stakeholders to manage our audience and business goals.
As we face major disruptions to the way people discover new products, such as social video and generative search, you should be a strategic and visionary leader who can quickly change our strategy to meet audience demands.
Specifically:
- You’ll work with the Verge leadership team to develop and execute our reviews and commerce strategy. You’ll help define the mix of content, the voice, and tone of our Reviews and How-to content — both written and on video.
- You will ensure that we hit our goals of publishing enough of those stories and maintaining their industry-leading quality.
- You will work with our business teams to set affiliate commerce goals that can be met while upholding our editorial standards.
- You’ll work closely with our news and tech team to make sure the reviewers on your team are showcasing their expertise daily on the website.
- As commerce evolves you’ll work closely with leadership to evolve our strategies and ensure we continue to meet our goals for commerce and reviews.
- You will directly manage a team of editors and writers, providing clear communication, regular constructive feedback, and career development opportunities.
WHO YOU ARE
You should have strong editorial and organizational skills, a good network of contacts, and expertise in writing about technology. Along with crafting high-level strategy, you will help steer our Reviews and Commerce section’s day-to-day direction and its long-term tone — working in collaboration with the editors reporting to you as well as site leadership.
This is a job that demands proven experience in the fields of reviews and commerce. You should:
- Have a creative vision for the future of Reviews and Commerce.
- Have experience managing a successful teams
- Have experience reviewing products and editing product reviews
- Have established connections with the companies we cover
- Be able to take meetings in New York and San Francisco as needed
- Have a deep passion for and expertise in consumer technology
- Have the ability to find, assign, and follow up on compelling stories, especially those that aren’t tied to specific news cycle
- Have track record of assigning and editing impactful, important stories
- Understand our audience and business data use it constantly evolve your strategy