As Senior Editor, it’s your responsibility to drive the growth of Dexerto’s editorial content across our core verticals - esports, gaming and entertainment. You’ll be on top of all trends impacting our content output, guiding and leading the content strategy, the ideation and scheduling of features on dexerto.com.
You’ll be instrumental in raising the profile of Dexerto across the esports, gaming, and entertainment industry; through the delivery of exceptional content, and the development of strategic relationships with publishers and PR professionals, enabling access to exclusive content, games and news in advance.
Key to your role will be to guide, manage and mentor the editorial team. You’ll be an accomplished writer and editor, with the ability to work closely with writers to edit and improve their copy, lead ideation and grow a culture of creativity, innovation and sharing across the editorial team.
Reporting to:
Head of Editorial
Key areas of responsibility
- Operations
- People Management
- Managing Quality
- Content & Strategy
- External & Internal Relationships
- Reporting
- Innovation
Operations & Commercial
- Work closely with Video and Social teams to ensure that Dexerto’s original content is distributed across multiple channels
- Oversee schedules and deadlines for members of the US teamPlan and manage all daily operations in the US team
- Collaborate with EIC & UK/AUS Managing Editors to determine strategy, content and plans
- Daily handovers with other Managing Editors and senior staff
- Leave clear instructions for Weekend Editors at the end of the week
- Coordinate meetings, workshops and features
- Coordinate and assign commercial and campaign content
- Resolve issues as they arise
People Management
- Hire, coach and supervise writers and content creators in the US
- Oversee the rota and edit accordingly
- Plan and approve assignments for writers and editors
- Help to develop and guide other US Editors & Senior Writers
- Mentoring and working with writers to improve the quality of their copy
- Manage editorial team and lead weekly meetings
- Feature image feedback to writers
- Discuss long-form ideas with writers, approving/rejecting ideas
- Coordinating with other shifts on content strategy
Managing Quality
- Help with checking finalized copy for compliance with policies, style & tone
- Oversee proofreading procedures and edit copy when necessary
- Checking errors in live content
- Sub-editing articles. Providing feedback to improve features/opinion pieces.
Content & Strategy
- Manage strategy for planning of core mainstream games
- Lead scheduling
- Lead content strategy
- Improve Dexerto’s SEO standing
- Edit copy
- Source stories for website
- Write articles
- Manage output for biggest storylines each week
- Monitor output
External & Internal Relationships
- Raise profile of Dexerto in the industry
- Developing strong relationships with PR for various games and organizations
- Work with SEO Manager to get a better grasp of SEO
Reporting
- Monitoring and continual improvement of website stats
- Deliver in-depth stats reports to Editor in Chief
- Work with Vertical Editors to analyse and improve
Innovation
- Lead brainstorming and ideation of bigger editorial initiatives
- Be on top of current and future trends
- Lead ideation across the team promoting a culture of innovation and learning
- Drive growth of Dexerto’s content
- Monitor trends and pitch SEO content
- Maintain an updated Trello with news and feature/guide ideas
- Lead regular ideation for social media posts.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS – PLEASE READ AND DO THIS
Submit your resume with a detailed cover letter explaining how your skills and experience relate to the role.
