Garden Design seeks a Web Editor to develop content and act as a liaison between the print and online teams.

The Freelance Web Editor will be responsible for conceiving and producing new online content and tools to build audience, meet business objectives, and generally extend the new vision for Garden Design into digital media.

Duties:

– Gathering the best garden content from around the web, communicating with bloggers to obtain rights and building a daily editorial schedule.
– Creating high-impact — i.e. practical, profitable, exciting, entertaining — editorial content and applications for an online consumer brand.
– Writing, editing and producing magazine and original content for the web, in accordance with SEO and usability best practices on a Drupal content management system.
– Creating and maintaining an online editorial calendar for sales purposes.
– Working with a producer and developers to define online projects.
– Establishing and maintaining web partnerships with third parties for traffic build.
– Conceiving of and helping present online programs for sponsorships.
– Managing the user experience to increase traffic, page views and time spent.
– Working in a matrix environment of online and print stakeholders.

Requirements:

– Must be a great writer with clean copy and a strong voice that balances inclusiveness and irreverence.
– Must have experience liaising with editorial staff/developing content related to print edition of a magazine.
– Experience in Drupal or a similar blog or online content management system.
– Photoshop, Google docs, Excel, and Omniture or other stats tracking a plus.
– Must be able to meet deadlines, juggle multiple projects, and collaborate with a range of departments in the company.
– Have a background in design/shelter/garden writing and be an avid reader of design-related websites, blogs, and magazines.

The position is based in New York City, five days a week in our 32nd St. office, open-ended.  Please send résumés with cover e-mail and clip links to ganda.suthivarakom@bonniercorp.com.