Senior Editor

Job Description

The Senior Editor oversees the entrepreneurship and future of work beats for MIT Sloan’s Ideas Made to Matter digital publication, identifying, assigning, and editing work that connects global business leaders with actionable insights from MIT experts. The Senior Editor is responsible for all editorial tasks involving written content for those topic areas, ensuring that material is clear, consistent, complete, and credible and that text is well-written, grammatically correct, and accessible.

While much of the Senior Editor’s work is rooted in traditional reporting, writing, and editing, they seek and welcome opportunities to communicate insights and ideas in new content formats and through new platforms and channels. More broadly, they are responsible for establishing a position of trusted subject matter authority within professional communities, including internal stakeholders. To that end, the Senior Editor is committed to keeping informed of the latest developments in artificial intelligence, analytics, data, and other technologies that impact the decision making of global business leaders.

This is a hybrid position based in Cambridge, MA.

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, or another relevant field.

Experience: Minimum of three years’ professional experience editing or creating business, science, or technology content in a news or editorial environment. Experience writing for digital platforms and with social media distribution in mind. Experience assigning to and editing staff writers and/or freelance writers. 

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