Assistant Editor 
Department: Editorial
Employment type: Full-time
Company profile: We're Food52, and we've created a groundbreaking and award-winning cooking site. We support, connect, and celebrate home cooks, and give them everything they need in one place.We have a top editorial, business, and engineering team. We're focused on using technology to find new and better ways to connect people around their specific food interests, and to offer them superb, highly curated information about food and cooking. We attract the most talented home cooks and contributors in the country; we also publish well-known professionals like Mario Batali, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Danny Meyer. And we have partnerships with Whole Foods Market and Random House.Food52 has been named the best food website by the James Beard Foundation and IACP, and has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Pando Daily, TechCrunch, and on the Today Show.We're located in Chelsea, in New York City.
Description: Food52, a fast-growing, James Beard Award-winning online food community and crowd-sourced and curated recipe hub, is currently looking for an assistant editor to work on a team of editors, executives, and developers in its New York City headquarters. This will involve plenty of writing and editing, good but not necessarily healthy food, unruly behind-the-scenes website functions, a deepening relationship with your laptop, and coffee. Responsibilities:Working in a small, fast-moving editorial team to produce clever, useful online food content (sometimes on the fly, sometimes days or weeks ahead)Conceiving and writing original blog posts, like recipe-based articles, technique how-tos, and features on goings-on in the greater online food community, and contributing new feature and coverage ideas regularly Working with contributing writers to produce and edit a portion of our growing roster of daily columns, having a hand in how we thoughtfully dovetail our product and editorial coverageHelping out at weekly photo and video shoots and managing biweekly, on-site contests Working closely with other teams to maintain our editorial voice across all platforms Helping to produce and edit Food52's cookbooks and apps
Requirements: Writing and editing experience in the food sphere and experience with CMS a major plusExpansive knowledge of the online food community and food blogs Demonstrated ability to gracefully write, sleep, and breathe in the Food52 editorial voice and aestheticLoves food, appreciates the importance of home cooking and cooking with the seasonsMeticulous editor, perfectionist, obsessive attention to detail, maddened by typos and broken links, delighted by finding and fixing themCheerful under pressureExcellent communication skillsA+ multi-tasker and juggler of responsibilities big and smallInterested in and engaged with social media like Twitter, Facebook, and PinterestLoves problem-solving and collaborating to drive Food52 forwardThinks big picture but pitches in on the nitty gritty of running a small companyComfortable with the realities of working for a startup: being on call on evenings and weekends, and working long hoursHas a good sense of humor (i.e. think we're funny)
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