Job Description

Job Description

Times Opinion is looking for a Senior Staff Editor who will be responsible for producing the Sunday Review. You need to be creative and ambidextrous, with strong editorial judgment and an obsession for Times standards.

You will work with Opinions editors and writers, as well as our award-winning graphics and design teams to develop storytelling that will challenge assumptions, expose the world to varying points of view while being urgent and accessible. This includes commissioning and editing your own essays including some cover stories as well as giving direction to the other editors who produce the dozen or so pieces that run in the Review each week. The Review editor, working with Opinions Special Projects editor, will not only select those pieces, but also make decisions on story length, placement, layout and art.

You must be a team player, able to collaborate with other editors, art directors, print editors, and our audience team to find ways to deepen our engagement with Times readers and find new audiences for our work. A Rolodex of big thinkers and accomplished writers is a must.

This role reports to the Opinion Special Projects Editor.

Responsibilities include:

* Commissioning and editing smart, forward thinking Op-Eds, from experts, policymakers and others, that advance the debate and anticipate and react to news.

* Track and maintain a healthy mix and range of writers and topics in the Sunday Review.

* Work with art directors on section redesigns.

* Collaborating with other editors on the vision, audience and priorities for Times Opinions coverage.

* Developing a network of outside writers and cultivating new voices on the biggest news and ideas.

* Finding fresh angles into the stories most on readers minds, about which they are most curious.

* Coordinating with the audience team to maximize the reach and impact of the work

* Regularly developing, pitching and helping execute high-impact enterprise pieces; including collaboration with multimedia teams, including design, photo, graphics, audio and video on how to best tell these stories

* Reading, reviewing, and promptly responding to unsolicited submissions.

Experience and Qualifications:

* At least 5 years of editing experience.

* Experience editing opinion writers

This is a Guild position.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local Fair Chance laws.