The Atlantic is hiring a creative, energetic, and experienced leader to help build and expand community at The Atlantic. We’re looking for someone with deep knowledge of—and real enthusiasm for—the social web, in all its wonderful and flawed complexity. This person should have tried every platform out there, and have strong opinions about each one. You should be able to describe what people find engaging on different platforms, and why, and you should have a theory of the case for what ought to drive engagement at The Atlantic (including but not limited to our journalism). The ideal candidate will also have strong convictions about what it will take to create a lively, respectful, enlightening, entertaining space for readers and Atlantic writers/editors to share ideas and debate on The Atlantic’s own platform, informed by the mission and values of the institution.
This editor should have a natural knack for bringing people together, and a belief in the importance of respectful disagreement and independent thinking. You should be open-minded, even-keeled, highly collaborative, and excited about the chance to build and experiment over time.
This person should be a team player with impeccable judgment and excellent writing skills, someone who thrives under pressure and is energized by a fast-paced and demanding work environment. You should ideally have at least 10 years of experience working at either a journalism institution or a social platform.
Responsibilities include:
- Develop strategy for, and help build, the ideal social forum for Atlantic readers, working closely with editorial and product leadership.
- Facilitate and encourage dialogue among readers, including but not limited to responses to The Atlantic’s published work.
- Seek opportunities to highlight interesting perspectives from within The Atlantic’s community, working closely with newsletter editors and print editors overseeing The Commons.
- Collaborate with writers and editors across the newsroom on staff contributions to Community.
- Create and uphold community guidelines, including through moderation.
- Collaborate closely with the audience team on off-platform promotion of The Atlantic’s community.
- Develop and lead outreach tactics to grow our community over time, working closely with colleagues working on audience development on the editorial team as well as colleagues in product and consumer marketing.
- Work closely with The Atlantic’s product team and any third-party software partners to enhance and optimize user experience and engagement for The Atlantic’s community.
This position is based in New York or Washington, D.C.
Salary minimum: $105,000; Salary maximum: $150,000
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.