The Times and The Sunday Times represent a combined 400 years of covering news and providing comment and analysis on the UK and the world. We are authoritative, credible, responsible, trusted and a part of the nation’s cultural heritage.
Your role: The Times and Sunday Times are hiring a US Editor, to lead and grow our team in America.
Day to day you will:
-
Lead our US team, publishing US-focused stories and curating the best of the Times and Sunday Times globally for American audiences.
-
Lead our content and audience strategy, working closely with the UK to adhere to overall strategy tailored to US market.
-
Create and execute a vision for our future growth and ‘voice’, playing a key role in planning future investment and what areas to grow.
-
Oversee the daily publishing operation, liaising with our team of correspondents and UK desks to agree daily coverage plans and commission content.
-
Work with audience and marketing daily to maximise content performance.
-
Oversee content planning with the audience and marketing teams, ensuring alignment around key events.
-
Manage the team and lead recruitment, with support from the UK.
-
Devise and launch other digital products to grow audience e.g. newsletter, podcast.
What we’re looking for from you:
-
Reporting or editing experience at a national news organisation.
-
Subject matter expertise: US news and politics, business, tech, society.
-
Strong grasp of digital publishing, including search, social, video, graphics.
-
Experience of staff management.
-
Experience of creating or launching a new product desirable.
-
Proven track record of collaborative working.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 13 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.