Temporary Senior Strategy Editor, Consumer Revenue New

Forbes Media LLC.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Forbes Media LLC is seeking a Temporary Senior Strategy Editor, Consumer Revenue, to lead content planning and optimization for Forbes Vetted. You will work with Editorial, Data, Brand Solutions and paid media to ensure timely, competitive content across core categories and affiliate revenue streams.

You will monitor performance, leverage trends and tools like Google Trends and Looker to shape briefs, seasonal planning and paid initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in commerce editorial or related editorial roles.
• Strong knowledge of SEO best practices and performance metrics driving traffic & affiliate revenue.
• Experience with data tools such as Google Trends, Looker, Semrush and Ahrefs.
• Excellent writing, editing and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate across Editorial, Data, Brand Solutions and paid media teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly content planning across Forbes Vetted’s 10 editorial sections and create briefs based on search demand and business priorities.
• Monitor category performance (traffic, rankings, revenue) and provide weekly recommendations for updates and optimizations.
• Track search and discovery landscape (SEO, AI Overviews, LLM visibility) to inform planning and optimization.
• Monitor Google Trends and news cycles to time updates for high-impact evergreen content.
• Support paid media content strategy, including managing Amazon storefronts with the paid social team and auditing SEM content.
• Assist with seasonal and tentpole content strategy, identifying evergreen optimization opportunities and promotional language plans.

Skills

Commerce editorial

Content strategy

SEO & performance metrics

Writing & editing

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Google Trends

Looker

Semrush

Ahrefs

Job description

Temporary Senior Strategy Editor, Consumer Revenue

United States

Forbes is an iconic global media brand that has symbolized success for over a century. Fueled by journalism that informs and inspires, Forbes spotlights the doers and doings shaping industries, achieving success and making an impact on the world. Forbes connects and convenes the most influential communities ranging from billionaires, business leaders and rising entrepreneurs to creators and innovators. The Forbes brand reaches more than 140 million people monthly worldwide through its trusted journalism, signature ForbesLive events and 49 licensed local editions in 81 countries.

Forbes Vetted is seeking an experienced commerce editor to temporarily join the Commerce Strategy team. This role will focus on maintaining and optimizing Forbes Vetted’s content strategy across its core editorial categories, using search trends, performance data and revenue insights to inform content planning and identify opportunities for growth.

The Temporary Senior Strategy Editor will work closely with Editorial, Data, Brand Solutions and paid media teams to ensure our content remains timely, competitive and optimized for traffic and revenue. This role will also support Forbes Vetted’s paid search and paid social initiatives, as well as seasonal and tentpole planning.
This is a temporary role scheduled through March 2027.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly content planning across Forbes Vetted’s 10 editorial sections, identifying new coverage opportunities and creating briefs based on search demand, emerging trends, seasonality and business priorities.
• Monitor category-level performance, including traffic, rankings and revenue trends, and make weekly recommendations for updates and other content optimizations.
• Monitor the changing search and discovery landscape—including traditional SEO, AI Overviews and LLM citations—to identify opportunities and inform how we plan and optimize content for both SEO and AEO/GEO.
• Monitor Google Trends, news cycles and consumer interest to capitalize on timely opportunities and strategically time updates to high-impact evergreen content.
• Support paid media content strategy, including managing and updating Amazon storefronts with the paid social team, assisting with new paid search campaigns and regularly auditing SEM content to ensure product recommendations and promotional information remain current.
• Assist with seasonal and tentpole content strategy, including identifying evergreen optimization opportunities and developing promotional language plans for major shopping events, sales periods and holidays.

The Ideal Candidate

• Has 5+ years of experience in commerce editorial, content strategy, or a related digital publishing role.
• Has a strong understanding of commerce content strategy, SEO best practices and the performance metrics that drive traffic and affiliate revenue.
• Is interested in how search and content discovery are evolving and has experience with AEO/GEO, AI Overviews and LLM visibility.
• Is comfortable working with data and tools such as Google Trends, Looker, Semrush and Ahrefs and can turn performance findings into clear editorial recommendations.
• Has excellent writing, editing and communication skills and can work effectively across teams.
• Is highly organized, proactive and comfortable balancing long‑term planning with timely opportunities in a fast‑moving commerce environment.

The hourly rate for this role is $45.00 - $55.00

Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith. The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate. In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so. Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions. We encourage you to occasionally re‑visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes. Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!

This role may evolve over time. While this job description outlines the primary responsibilities, additional duties may be assigned as business needs change.Forbes aims to offer employees the flexibility they need in order to be successful. Some positions may require candidates to be based in a specific location for consideration while some roles may be fully remote (within the U.S.) if it aligns with the needs of the position. This position is only open to candidates residing in California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, & Washington. Due to business operations and compliance requirements, we are unable to consider applicants based outside these states at this time.

Forbes is an equal opportunity employer.

Demographic Questions

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We are holding ourselves accountable and ensuring that all decisions are made with equity top of mind.