Senior Digital Editor, National Geographic Travel

Are you passionate about travel and digital publishing?

National Geographic Travel is looking for a Senior Digital Editor to join our incredible team! This person will assign and edit travel stories for our digital audiences while taking a lead contributing role in developing story ideas , refining story framing, and offering subject matter expertise.

What You Will Do:

• Pitch and develop story ideas that resonate with our audience and align with our content strategy.
• Assign stories to freelancers by communicating appropriate story framing, story length, and deadlines.
• Collaborate with photo editors, graphics editors and video editors to communicate story details and overall expectations.
• Grow our freelancer base by seeking engaging writers who have expertise in travel and can deliver clean copy on deadline.
• Edit and produce search-optimized digital content upon delivery from the assigned freelancer, upholding Nat Geo’s editorial standards and agreed upon framing and promotional expectations.
• Collaborate with the Digital Executive Editor to identify digital content for cross-platform consideration and editorial colleagues to re-edit content for multiplatform experiences.
• Represent National Geographic for internal speaking engagements as well as external media promotional opportunities.
• Monitor industry and competitive landscape, keeping digital trends top of mind.
• Synthesize digital readership data on a regular basis while experimenting with publishing tactics to reach new audiences.
• Prioritize National Geographic’s key performance indicators, which may require adjusting strategies.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 7 years of experience in the editing space.
• Exceptional writing skills.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and consistently deliver quality work in a fast-paced environment.
• Team player with diplomatic temperament and ability to foster a cooperative work environment.
• Deep familiarity with and appreciation for digital publishing and travel.
• Proficiency in digital content management systems, Microsoft’s product suite, Adobe Analytics, and HTML.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.

National Geographic Content is devoted to illuminating the wonder of our world and inspiring people to protect it through our storytelling across platforms, including television and film in linear and streaming, print and digital experiences, and social media, where we have more followers than any other brand in the world. The National Geographic Editorial team is responsible for engaging both new and existing audiences through the creation and distribution of best-in-class content for our magazines (National Geographic, National Geographic Kids and Little Kids, National Geographic History, and single-topic newsstand specials), digital platforms (NationalGeographic.com and our app), and social accounts. We work across all media types, including photography, video, text, graphics and data visualization, cartography, and interactive digital experiences. Our primary aim is to use our storytelling to drive growth in followers, engaged newsletter audiences, subscribers, and loyal users who stay with us because they love how we inspire, entertain, and inform them.