Senior Associate Editor

The Atlantic is seeking a creative, fast-moving Senior Associate Editor to help craft and execute our digital and social video strategy. This will include translating The Atlantic’s award-winning journalism, including its archives and newsletters, into shareable videos; producing social-first video projects in partnership with the larger editorial vision; nurturing relationships with audiences on video-first platforms. This editor will amplify our presence on new and existing platforms, increase our publishing cadence, enhance our visual style, and diversify our video portfolio. The editor will also be expected to keep The Atlantic at the forefront of industry trends, and seek new publishing opportunities to connect our journalism with wider and newer audiences.

Mandatory Experience/skills

• 4-6 years of experience editing digital/social video, preferably for a media organization
• Excellent news and editorial judgment. Strong writing skills
• Filming, including experience working with lighting equipment, gimbals, and microphones
• Ability to conceptualize high-level video pitches and projects
• Ability to juggle quick-turn video needs and longer-range feature projects
• Ability to tailor videos for diverse social media platforms
• Record of innovation in video concept, format, or execution
• Media and social media fluency
• The ability to generate and lead social conversations across a wide range of topics
  
  

Preferred Experience/skills

• Design
• Animation
• Audio
• Experience launching video series in social or digital spaces
• Experience working on video projects involving in-the-field reporting or interviewing
• Online community building
• Copy editing
• Social media
  
  

Mandatory fluencies

• Adobe PremierePro
• CapCut
• Headliner (or similar audiogram generator)
• TikTok
• Instagram
• YouTube
  
  

Preferred Fluencies

• After Effects
• Adobe Photoshop
• Figma or Canva
  
  

This job is based at The Atlantic’s offices in either New York City or Washington, D.C.

Salary minimum: $70,000; Salary maximum: $80,000

About The Atlantic

The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time. We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture. As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.

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The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC and its affiliates ("The Atlantic") are Equal Opportunity Employers. We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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