Senior Even Better & Lifestyle Editor, Vox.com

Vox Media; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading modern media company is seeking a Senior Even Better & Lifestyle Editor to oversee service journalism and lifestyle coverage. The role focuses on providing actionable advice on societal trends and human behavior. This remote position requires strong leadership and editing skills, with at least 5 years of editorial experience. A collaborative environment is promoted, making it ideal for creative thinkers who can communicate complex topics clearly.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years of editorial experience, with a proven track record of editing or leading a vertical/section.
• Strong background in service journalism, lifestyle, or ideas writing/editing.
• Exceptional line-editing skills and the ability to shape complex topics into clear, compelling stories.

Responsibilities

• Shape Vox’s service journalism and lifestyle coverage using an explanatory lens.
• Lead Even Better, Vox’s service journalism vertical.
• Manage and edit a team of staff reporters.

Skills

Leadership

Service journalism

Editing

Creative thinking

Story judgment

Digital media trends

Job description

Senior Even Better & Lifestyle Editor, Vox.com

Remote (US Only)

About

Vox is hiring a senior editor to oversee our Even Better & Lifestyle team. We’re looking for a versatile journalist who is passionate and knowledgeable about a wide swath of coverage of society, trends, and human behavior to lead two aspects of our coverage:

• Service journalism under our Even Better vertical, which focuses on mental and physical health, relationships and community, and work and money. Our goal is to provide actionable advice to readers and engage with big, fraught topics about how to live a good life.
• Lifestyle coverage, which takes a creative approach to understanding cultural moments and social trends. From the Labubu craze to explaining the larger stakes of cultural moments like the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, we take these subjects seriously, with an approach rooted in expertise, creativity, and inclusivity.

The ideal candidate is a generalist who is eager to distill distinctive angles and arguments, can see stories hidden in plain sight, and has a knack for identifying the most important stories where Vox can bring clarity and understanding.

Who We Are

Vox candidly shepherds audiences through politics and policy, business and pop culture, food, science, and everything else that matters.

Vox is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

What You’ll Do

• Work with the editorial director and other team editors to shape Vox’s service journalism and lifestyle coverage, using an explanatory lens to break down complicated stories in a clear, creative, and compelling way for the general interest reader
• Lead Even Better, Vox’s service journalism vertical
• Manage and edit a team of staff reporters
• Work collaboratively with others across the newsroom, including podcast producers, and video producers across the newsroom on one-off stories and larger editorial projects

Who You Are

• Demonstrated experience managing a team of reporters
• Demonstrated experience assigning and editing service journalism
• Strong story judgment and editing skills
• 5+ years of editorial experience, with a proven track record of editing or leading a vertical/section
• Strong background in service journalism, lifestyle, or ideas writing/editing
• Exceptional line-editing skills and the ability to shape complex topics into clear, compelling stories
• Creative thinker with an eye for distinctive story ideas and formats
• Collaborative leader who values mentorship and teamwork
• Comfort with analytics and audience data to inform editorial strategy
• Familiarity with digital media trends and multiplatform storytelling
• The ability to help reporters uncover key insights in complex topics, and to find the best frame for their stories
• Knowledge and curiosity about social trends and human behavior writ large, and a passion for digging into the details

If you think you have what it takes, but don’t meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch. We’ve hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.

Where You’ll Work

This job is remote.

Why Vox Media?

What We Offer

This is a permanent, full-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.

Our DEI+ Commitment

Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices. We keep our diversity data public for the sake of accountability, transparency and communication. Learn more about our values here, and our approach to corporate citizenship here.

Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our People & Culture team ([e-mail]).

What Comes Next

Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @voxmedia.com email addresses, never via text message.

Pay Transparency

The salary range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.

Pay Range

$115,000 - $130,000 USD

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