Guides Editor, Polygon

Job Description

Polygon is looking for an innovative Guides Editor to join our team! As the Guides Editor, your core responsibility is to assign, edit, and publish video game guides content around new releases and ongoing games with consistent updates. In addition to working with Polygon's team of guides writers and producers, you're a primary point of contact for freelance writers and will grow the stable of diverse voices that contribute to Polygon's guides program. You'll standardize guide formats, explore new coverage areas, and experiment with different types of coverage. Additionally, you will partner with other editors during large releases to coordinate coverage across guides, games, and the news team. This role reports to the Executive Editor .

WHO WE ARE

Polygon is a modern entertainment brand covering the media that young people love. We connect our audience directly to the content they want to enjoy, to the culture and the inclusive community they want to be a part of, and to the stories and ideas, they otherwise wouldn't know existed.

Polygon 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
• Use analytics and research to find new opportunities to expand guides coverage
• Edit and develop Polygon's team of guides writers, helping them brainstorm assignments and providing edits and feedback on written work
• Grow a diverse team of freelance writers with a variety of expertise, including in ongoing games, tabletop, and other areas of Polygon's coverage
• Optimize and reprioritize content based on audience demand and recommendations from audience insights and SEO teams
• Create templates for different types of guides coverage, making it easy for writers (staff or freelance) to join various projects
• Oversee the guides team's editorial calendar in Asana
• Solicit, edit, and publish freelancer content, maintaining contracts and ensuring freelancers are paid on time
• Lead cross-team collaboration on high-level tips and strategy stories
• Coordinate with the Reviews Editor on distributing review copies of games for coverage within both sections
• Monitor search traffic and trends in player behavior to identify coverage opportunities.
• Contribute to our team's editorial success
• Update and repurpose existing guides content

WHO YOU ARE

You're innovative, creative, and capable of developing a strategy for video game guides coverage. You understand the audience demands and also the strengths of writers on your team and strive to create the best coverage to meet the moment.
• Experienced with setting content strategy for video game guides, and leading brainstorms for new releases and games that receive ongoing updates
• Fluent in editorial analytics platforms
• Understanding of SEO best practices and tools
• Able to edit written content and provide clear, consistent feedback to writers
• Able to source freelance writers from a diverse range of backgrounds
• Capable of working independently and in collaboration with others
• Possess strong verbal and written communication skills

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. We're dedicated to the health and wellbeing of all of our employees, and when we reopen, will require everyone who works from one of our offices to be fully-vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees with approved religious or medical exemptions may be subject to additional safety requirements, such as submitting to regular COVID-19 testing and/or wearing a face covering in our offices.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzepbq-18-216-190-167-42 in your application.