Audience Editor, Seoul

Job Description

The New York Times is seeking an Audience Editor to join their Seoul newsroom. This role focuses on shaping and targeting journalism for various platforms and developing new strategies. The Audience Editor will work with editors to optimize journalism for search and promote it across social platforms.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading The Times’s main off-platform presence.
• Optimizing headlines and URLs for search.
• Providing trends updates from search and social.
• Analyzing internal and external data to share performance insights.
• Developing and refining the voice of The Times on off-platform channels.
• Building creative social native content.
• Partnering with editors to workshop on-platform framing of articles.
• Interpreting data and signals for promotion opportunities.
• Working with journalists on best practices for search and social.
• Developing testing strategies around medium and message.

Ideal candidate should have:

• Proven experience in audience engagement, social media, SEO, and digital journalism.
• Excellent news and editorial judgment.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Deep understanding of mainstream and emerging social channels.
• Consistent record running social media accounts for major news outlets.
• Familiarity with the search landscape and SEO best practices.
• A passion for news and a dedication to The Times and its journalistic mission.
• Strong writing and editing skills.
• Experience working independently and collaborating across time zones.