Senior Social Editor

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WIRED is seeking an experienced and creative leader to make sure our readers encounter our amazing stories on any and every platform: a strong individual with a diverse background and experiences that will help bring WIRED to every corner of the world. This will require a powerful strategy, strong partnerships, proven tactics, and a deep, optimistic appreciation for the future of business, design, culture, gear, science, security, and transportation. The Sr. Social Editor will act as the liaison between WIRED and social companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube, Pinterest, and Snapchat. This person will oversee the WIRED social strategy, help create shareable content, and ensure the WIRED.com homepage is dynamic. Qualified candidates should be steeped in the latest social media trends, enjoy a fast-paced environment with a real-time, nimble editorial strategy, and be a numbers monster able to make effective use of data analysis. More than 5 years’ editorial experience required. The role will report to the Executive Editor and is based in San Francisco and manage one social media manager based in NY.

* Oversee daily social strategy and posting to all of WIRED’s social channels * Maintain the WIRED.com homepage; ensuring it stays fresh and dynamic * Make sure that WIRED is an early presence on new social platforms. * Develop and circulate best practices and trending content to social contributors. * Proactively build relationships with key social media platforms, and bring insights to the organization to ensure we’re reacting to the platform changes. * Work with our edit, design, and video teams to help produce highly sharable original content that’s produced for exclusively social distribution. * Work with business and marketing partners. * Collaborate with our Audience Development team to understand the effectiveness of social channels and posts, and work to improve the effectiveness of every post through techniques like audience segmentation, geotargeting, etc.

* A strong understanding of social media platforms and trends and a proven track record of scaling those platforms * Experience developing and executing top-tier social media content * Measurable success creating a brand’s social media strategy through innovative concepts and business development partnerships * A nuanced, thoughtful understanding of social media messaging around current events, sensitive issues, or controversial topics * Excellent judgment * Strong and successful relationships with leadership at top level social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Snapchat * Analytic skills and a strong understanding of how to track and respond to data in real time * Ability to turn social listening data into actionable, engaging social content plans