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Staff Writer
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Cambridge, MA, United States
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Do you love to write about the latest trends in home design, home improvement, and DIY? Are you a dishwasher fanatic? A laundry jockey? Do you find yourself hanging out at the appliance store way too often? Company website is seeking a Staff Writer to join our Home & Outdoors team! Whether you call it home economics or life hacking, we’re looking for people that know the home inside and out.
The Staff Writer will primarily be responsible for testing large home appliances, then using the test results to write informative, consumer-friendly product reviews. The Staff Writer will also use their multimedia storytelling skills—photography, video, social media, etc.—to contribute feature stories and consumer education pieces with a strong focus on home care and improvement. Working closely with the section editors, the Staff Writer will dive deeply into several product categories—writing the best articles anywhere on dishwashers, refrigerators, laundry, as well as small kitchen and home goods. This position requires the ability to work out of the Company website office and labs in Cambridge, MA. Occasional travel may also be required.
Responsibilities:
• Writing daily assignments on a variety of topics that improve the lives of consumers
• Generating new story ideas that positively impact our editorial strategies - Peer editing the work of other writers on team Requirements:
• Excellent writing skills
• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• Minimum two years professional writing experience preferred
-Ability to effectively identify the pain points in the consumer experience and write content that helps them
• Strong news judgment
• Ability to analyze traffic metrics, identify patterns, and develop action items
• Multimedia newsgathering (photography, video, social media) experience is strongly preferred