Executive Editor
The Company
Lifebooker is a profitable and rapidly growing local services deal site providing its predominately female consumer base with a rich and continuous offering of discounted health, beauty and lifestyle services. Founded in 2006, the Company has distinguished itself from its daily deal competitors with a technology-rich inventory management based approach that synthesizes the capabilities of Groupon and Orbitz. This has resulted in high conversion rates, growing lifetime customer value and business provider loyalty as compared to other competitor sites.
The Position
Lifebooker is looking for an Executive Editor to oversee, manage, write, edit and be ultimately responsible for all sales and marketing copy from end to end in addition to managing our editorial department. This individual should be an experienced writer and editor with professional experience in any or all of the following areas: e- commerce, retail, magazines, beauty, health, travel and lifestyle services.
Duties:
· Develop and direct our editorial department in the creation of all Lifebooker copy, including Lifebooker Loot daily deals as well as other consumer facing marketing and sales messaging
· Make recommendations against editorial department expansion and manage growing team of writers, and coordination staff
· Coordinate with the Lifebooker Sales Team and the Customer Service Team to finalize all deal and copy points
· Write, edit, proofread and ultimately own the consistency of voice and quality of all final copy
Skills:
· Should have at least 6 years of professional experience as a writer and editor and should ideally be familiar with e-commerce, retail, and/or magazines
· Should have at least 2 years of management experience and be able to manage a team in addition to writing copy; must be proficient at assigning, managing and editing a team of in-house and remote writers
· Must have extremely strong writing and editing skills and be able to use them toward creating engaging and persuasive copy
· Must be able to comfortably write and edit in the witty Lifebooker tone about topics relating to NYC, beauty and fitness
· Must be extremely detail-oriented, organized, able to work under multiple deadlines and comfortable working under pressure
Benefits: Premium health benefits, competitive salary, and other financial incentives
