Senior Editor, Policy, Politics, and Ideas

Summary

Join Vox Media as an experienced editor to lead a team of writers covering policy, politics, and ideas. You will conceptualize, assign, and edit pieces, collaborating with other editors and teams across platforms. The role requires strong leadership, editing, and analytical skills, with a focus on distinctive angles and in-depth analysis rather than breaking news. You will manage a team of 3-4 writers and contribute to the overall editorial vision. This is a remote, full-time, benefits-eligible position.

Requirements

• 5 years’ experience editing
• Strong leadership, management, and editing skills
• Analytical rigor. We want an editor with the ability to pressure-test our own writers’ arguments and steelman opposing ones. We want an editor who can confidently edit pieces that explain ideas and/or stake out intellectual claims, and who is eager to assign and edit pieces that embrace nuance and complicate narratives without sacrificing clarity
• Excellent news judgment and a demonstrated ability to bring analysis and sharp angles to news stories

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize, assign, and edit pieces rooted in reporting and research, including explainers, argument-driven essays, and features
• Work with editors across the Vox newsroom to find opportunities to elevate writers’ work on other platforms, including audio, video, and social video
• Stay on top of the news, both foreign and domestic, to find the angles that will lead to truly distinctive analytical, contextual, and deeply informed journalism
• Set the broader editorial vision and daily coverage priorities for a small team of reporters
• Manage and lead a team of 3-4 writers, and collaborate with other editors on the broader policy, politics, and ideas team to pick up edits as necessary

Benefits

• This is a permanent, full-time position
• This job is benefits-eligible
• This job is remote