North American Editor Online, Cycling Weekly

About the Team

Cycling Weekly has been bringing cyclists quality news and features since 1891. Cycling has changed a lot since then, and cyclingweekly.com brings the latest breaking news, race coverage, reviews, buying guides and unique features online as one of the world’s biggest cycling websites.

We’re looking for a North American Editor to help build our audience in the USA and Canada. The North American editor is a key role in driving Cycling Weekly’s online content forward and will assist the digital editor, news editor and technical editor in leading and coordinating US/Canada-focused editorial news, features, reviews and evergreen content including buying guides for the Cycling Weekly website, as well as having their own writing responsibilities.

A knowledge and love of cycling is a must, as is a track record in digital journalism. This role requires fantastic organisational and time-management skills, a talent for writing sharp, quality content, managing multiple audience strategies at once including SEO and social, as well as the ability to adapt quickly while working in a fast paced and ambitious environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with content director, digital editor and technical editor to create a clear editorial content strategy to develop and grow Cycling Weekly’s North American audience
• Write, edit and update copy, including news, reviews, features, and buying guides
• Commission regular features and develop ideas with freelancers
• Assist in coordinating coverage, as well as attending, key events throughout the season
• Champion our SEO Strategy
• Take responsibility for geographically relevant content on our social media platforms, working with audience development to ensure best practice
• Support both the commercial and tech team by developing/building upon relationships with US-based clients
• Attend client meetings with the North American commercial team where necessary

Requirements

What do I need to succeed?

• A love and knowledge of all things cycling
• Experience as a section editor role or similar on a website
• Fantastic writing skills
• An existing understanding of SEO best practises and the ability to quickly develop these skills
• Ability to work quickly and accurately with a ‘right first time’ approach to your writing
• Knowledge and experience of content management systems
• Excellent time management skills
• Willingness to work weekend shifts as part of a team rota and evenings when required
• Management experience would be a plus, but not essential

Benefits

As well as our standard benefits, we have a number of awesome perks available to our staff including:

• Unlimited paid time off (yes you read that right!)
• Healthcare
• 401k match
• Employee Staff Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flexible Spend Account (FSA)
• A share in our success - every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year
• Free food (monthly munchies, bagel Fridays, fresh fruit & snacks and coffee and tea on tap)
• Central office locations with cool open plan working spaces. We operate a flexible working plan and are COVID secure
• Gym discounts
• Free digital magazine subscriptions and access to back copies of our print magazines and bookazines
• Discounted gym membership and onsite health & wellbeing (yoga at lunch anyone?!)
• Annual Future conference - get together with your colleagues to celebrate success and look forward to what's next
• Regular staff socials arranged by our wonderful Employee Community & Culture committees
• Huge opportunities to learn and develop whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues

We are Future

Connectors. Creators. Experience Makers

We’re Future. We’re 2300 colleagues over 200 brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We haven’t just survived in 2020, we’ve thrived, increasing our audience share, taking more number one positions, acquiring new businesses and launching new brands.

And we don’t plan on stopping any time soon.

We’ve got an ambitious plan for 2021 that will build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities. We’re calling it Future 3.0 and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.

Inclusion & Diversity

At Future we are passionate about ensuring that as a business, we are continuing to promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do.

Future is an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process will be free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respects all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values which will continue to ensure that all applicants, current and future employees are treated with respect and fairness.

We are continuing to be inclusive in our approach to flexible working, ensuring that we are making adjustments where required and providing our employees the tools and support to enable them to grow and flourish in their careers.

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