The Senior Programming Editor will curate, package, and distribute content across platforms while shaping programming strategy to drive engagement and subscriptions.
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About the Role
The Athletic is looking for a passionate, analytical audience strategist with an eye for great content to join our team as an Editorial Manager, Programming. In this role, you’ll be a leader on the strategy and distribution of content across various channels including, but not limited to, The Athletic home feed, New York Times surfaces, email newsletters and push alerts. This role will collaborate across The Athletic’s newsroom and manage a team of programmers to oversee daily decision-making and the team’s long term vision and goals.
This is a remote-based position in the United States or Canada.
Responsibilities
- Shape The Athletic’s near-term and long-term programming strategy across channels to drive subscribers, content views and retainment.
- Lead The Athletic’s day-to-day communication and promotion on various New York Times surfaces, as well as for major tentpole events.
- Manage projects side-by-side with product managers to evolve and enhance the home feed and overall experience for subscribers.
- Collaborate with editorial leadership to improve tools and educate the newsroom on best practices in publishing and promoting content
- Oversee daily push alert decision-making on local and national stories, as well as analyze key metrics that shape programming’s overall strategy.
- Analyze metrics to inform curation strategy across platforms and sports, on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
- Serve as an audience lead for multi-platform campaigns around priority content and tentpole events.
- Lead discussions with editors from across the newsroom to proactively identify high-performing content and provide impactful feedback on content performance.
- ••Collaborate with leaders across email, marketing and design to align voice and brand across all platforms.
Requirements
- 7-10 years experience in journalism/media, content programming, digital marketing, or similar.
- Experience managing a direct report or a team of direct reports
- Expert ability to develop strategies that result in audience growth and engagement.
- Experience overseeing home page curation and product development.
- Data-driven and analytical; ability to think critically around metrics.
- Experience working cross-functionally in a large, complex organization.
- Strong communicator and can disseminate information clearly and concisely to various stakeholder groups.
- Interest and knowledge across a range of different sports.
- Supreme attention to detail and highly organized under deadlines.
- ••This is a remote-based position in the United States or Canada.
The annual base salary range for this role is $85,000.00 - $95,000.00 USD. The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location. It may also include non-cash rewards and benefits. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our comprehensive US benefits package includes:
- Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
- Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
- 401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
- Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.
For international candidates: Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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