Associate Editor, Serious Eats

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Job Description

Serious Eats is seeking a food-loving and detail-oriented associate editor to join our team, where rigorous research, culinary curiosity, and creativity come together to produce engaging, evidence-based food articles, recipes, and other content. The associate editor's primary focus is writing, editing, and building articles for Serious Eats, as well as working with the editorial team on other editorial tasks and operations. The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated, deeply curious, scientifically literate, approaches research rigorously and with skepticism, and can continuously generate new, fun, and exciting ideas across a range of content types and editorial initiatives. The candidate should have a strong vein of nerdy culinary knowledge and curiosity.

The position reports to the Culinary Editor.

This position will either be based in our New York office or Remote

NY In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

Remote In-office Expectations: This position is fully remote with no in-office requirements, (might require coming into an office 1 or 2x a year)

About The Positions Contributions:

The Role's Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Experience:

• 3+ years of professional experience in editorial writing, with a strong focus on food journalism or culinary content.

• A passion for food and cooking, with an interest and drive to understand why and how things work on a technical level.

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:

• Excellent research, writing, and editing (including copyediting) skills.

• Ability to craft content that aligns with Serious Eats as a brand and resonates with our audience.

• Commitment to thorough, rigorous fact-checking and evidence-based research on culinary, scientific, cultural, and historical topics.

• Self-driven; high degree of collaboration, organization, and positivity; ability to thrive in a fast-changing environment.

% Travel Required (Approximate): 5%

It is the policy of Dotdash Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.Accommodation requests can be made by emailing ddm.hr@dotdashmdp.com.

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Pay Range

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition,Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.