Senior Editor at Private Equity Insights

Private Equity Insights IVS; London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in London is seeking a Senior Editor to build a premier magazine. The role requires exceptional writing and editing skills, with a strong focus on research, interviews, and content creation. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in journalism or media, a bachelor's degree, and a UK work permit. This position offers tangible operational experience in a scale-up environment with unlimited growth potential.

Benefits

Opportunity for operational experience in a scale-up

Work closely with the CEO

Unlimited growth potential within the company

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a magazine or media company with outstanding performance.
• Possess a UK work permit.
• Ability to follow through on commitments and work proactively.

Responsibilities

• Research industry-related topics and ideas for stories and articles.
• Interview relevant people.
• Write, edit, and proofread content for magazines.
• Construct magazines including photos, design, and artwork.

Skills

Outstanding writing

Editing skills

Creative skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, marketing, English, or related field

Job description

Senior Editor at Private Equity Insights

London, United Kingdom

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about finding or creating great stories and content? If so, you might be our Senior Editor.

About us

"Private Equity Insights is the world's leading Private Equity community. We connect and develop more than 240,000 investment professionals across the world, through our platforms, which include conferences, webinars, magazines and news reports.

For more than 10 years, PEI has helped Investors, Fund Managers and CXOs rethink what it takes to fundraise, invest, operate and exit in Private Equity, and does so via online engagement and cutting edge conferences in Singapore, UK, France, Poland & CEE, Benelux, Switzerland, Iberia, Germany, Italy, Nordics and DACH."

Private Equity Insights is part of United Media which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.

What we offer you

As our Senior Editor you have the unique opportunity to be part of building the greatest brand within Insurtech. By providing you with the ownership of our magazines, we want to constantly push you out of your comfort zone. You’ll be working out of our HQ in London and to ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

• An opportunity for getting operational experience in a scale-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matters to the business
• A chance to work closely together with our CEO
• Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally

Your Responsibilities

Your responsibility will be to build the greatest physical magazine which entails that you:

• Thoroughly research industry-related topics and ideas for stories and articles
• Interview relevant people
• Copywrite, write, edit and proofread content for our magazines
• Construct the magazines including photos, design and artwork (with help from our Graphic Designer)

What we expect from you

You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you:

• Have acquired a bachelor’s degree with outstanding results preferably within journalism, communications, marketing, English, or related field
• Have +5 years of work experience with outstanding performance from a magazine or media company
• Have an UK work permit
• Possess outstanding writing, editing and creative skills
• Possess an exceptional attention to detail
• Are well-organised and able to structure and prioritise your work

Startdate

Flexible

Monday - Friday we work from our office (next to Victoria Station) and do not offer remote work.