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Job Description

About the Role

Wirecutter is seeking a web producer to join our production team. Web producers package and publish long-form reviews, short-form articles, and other digital content, and manage our extensive multimedia library and product database, ensuring both are organized and accessible.

As a web producer at Wirecutter, you'll work within a collaborative team to meet daily publishing deadlines, and you will report to the production manager. You’ll also work with our product team focused on internal tooling to test and suggest new features for our content management system and other tools. Production is essential to Wirecutter's editorial process and success, and you’ll play a major role in ensuring our standards are met.

We are a team that places high value on collaboration and communication, both in our day-to-day tasks and in our efforts to continually improve how we work. You’ll work alongside colleagues who are creative and detail-oriented problem-solvers. This role has the potential to be remote.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare content to be published, by moving copy and other assets into our content management systems.

• Communicate with stakeholders across various departments (including the writers and editors of the content in production) to ensure that published projects meet expectations.

• Process URLs and product information, perform basic image preparation and manipulation and create basic HTML tables.

• Contribute to the maintenance of product, image and content tracking databases, and of team process documentation.

• Conduct quality assurance tests on content pre- and post-publish, fix errors in published content, and test new site changes and features.

• You will assist with work on retail events (i.e., Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday) and site-wide strategic projects, as necessary.

• Perform related work as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience producing or managing website content in a digital media environment

• 1+ years of experience working remotely with a team

• Experience managing many different assignments at once, using project management tools like Airtable, Trello, etc.

• Familiarity with basic HTML and content management systems like WordPress

The annual base pay range for this role is between $59,000.00 and $59,000.00.

Locations

Even with our office in New York City, Wirecutter remains a highly remote-friendly culture and is proud to employ incredible people across the country. Right now, we are eligible to hire in the following states: CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, ME, MA, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA.

Please include your résumé/CV and a cover letter with your application. You can only upload one file in the “Résumé/CV” box, so please combine and upload your résumé and cover letter as one file.

This is a union position as classified by the News Guild of New York.

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