Staff Writer New York, NY

Fortune; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Personal Finance Staff Writer to enhance their evergreen content and assist consumers in making informed financial decisions. This role involves writing high-quality articles, collaborating across teams, and optimizing content for SEO. With a focus on accuracy and transparency, the ideal candidate will have a strong background in personal finance topics and a commitment to delivering valuable insights. Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to making business better and play a key role in shaping the future of personal finance journalism.

Qualifications

• 3+ Jahre Erfahrung im Schreiben über persönliche Finanzen.
• Starke analytische Fähigkeiten und Erfahrung mit Google Sheets und Excel.

Responsibilities

• Schreiben und Aktualisieren von 3-5 Artikeln pro Woche.
• Forschung zu Finanzprodukten und Erstellung von Datenpunkten.

Skills

Personal Finance Writing

SEO Knowledge

Analytical Skills

Collaboration

Time Management

Tools

Google Sheets

Excel

WordPress

Semrush

Ahrefs

Job description

Fortune is a global leader in business journalism, renowned for its iconic rankings, conferences, and award-winning editorial coverage. We are seeking a Personal Finance Staff Writer to play a key role in expanding our evergreen content with the purpose of helping consumers make important financial decisions.

The Staff Writer will write high-quality articles educating consumers, collaborate across teams to ensure articles are optimized in such areas as compliance and monetization, and contribute to Fortune's short- and long-term editorial strategy in the personal finance space. This role requires balancing news SEO (Google Discover, trending topics) with evergreen content creation and optimization while assisting in high-impact projects to future-proof Fortune against AI-driven search disruptions.

Preference for New York-based candidates who can work from the Fortune HQ but qualified remote candidates will be considered.

Key responsibilities

• Research financial products and compile data points.
• Assist with building ranking methodologies.
• Write/update 3-5 articles per week and fine-tune them according to an editor’s direction.
• Have a strong commitment to accuracy and transparency in your content.
• Keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening with interest rates, the Federal Reserve, and related topics impacting consumers.
• Be attuned to SEO trends and best practices and comfortable working with tools such as Semrush and Ahrefs.
• Have a keen attention to detail and a drive to ensure your articles are rigorously accurate and stand out from the competition.
• Be comfortable interviewing expert sources for quotes and insights as needed.
• Have a network of expert sources in the personal finance space.

Required

• 3+ years of experience covering personal finance topics.
• Well versed in writing about personal finance topics including banking, mortgages, personal loans, investing and more.
• Experience writing content types including rankings, reviews, and evergreen explainers.
• An excellent grasp of AP Style and English grammar.
• The ability to adapt your writing to fit with Fortune’s style and readership.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency working with Google Sheets and Excel.
• The ability to collaborate across teams to optimize content.
• Exceptional time management skills and the ability to juggle multiple assignments.
• Familiarity working in WordPress or a similar CMS.

Salary Range: $85,000 - 100,000. This range is a good faith estimate and may ultimately vary based on a number of relevant factors.

About Fortune:

At Fortune Media, our mission is to change the world by making business better. We achieve that by providing trusted information, great storytelling, rigorous benchmarking and world-class community building. And our key values are humility, ownership, and transparency.

The policy of Fortune Media is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and emplaoyees without regard to race, color, caste, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Fortune Media affirmatively seeks to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity and values diversity and inclusion.

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