Senior Homepage Editor

Location: i Headquarters – London

Position: Permanent 

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution. 
• Life cover under the Pension Plan 4x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym 
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits…

Job Introduction

The i Paper is looking for a Senior Homepage Editor with experience of curating on-platform content for a digital newsroom. In this role you will be responsible for the presentation of all of The i Paper’s journalism across the inews.co.uk homepage and vertical category sections, the site’s browser and app push notifications, and the ongoing development of our on-platform curation strategy.

As a Senior Homepage Editor you will work to build deeper loyalty with The i Paper’s existing audience, help subscribers discover the depth and breadth of our journalism, and ensure a consistent, premium presentation of our journalism on our website and through push notifications.

Using a combination of insights derived from analytics and expert news judgement, you will work closely with senior editorial staff to ensure i’s journalism is always presented at its best. A vital member of our newsroom, this individual will be personally responsible for much of the minute-by-minute management of our channels.

As such it requires someone with great interpersonal skills, a keen news sense but also the ability to juggle multiple tasks and respond rapidly to developing news events.

This role will include some shift and weekend work.

Key areas of responsibility

• Work with the Digital Publishing editor to plan the daily rollout of i journalism across all our owned channels and drive key audience engagement behaviors with subscribers
• Attend daily planning and news conferences to feedback key insights, help shape coverage and explain splash lineups 
• Work with the broader Audience Team to use data and research to develop and refine the long-term homepage and notification strategy
• Curate all aspects of The i Paper’s product experience
• Write and send browser, email and app notifications 
• Train and work with Audience team colleagues and freelancers to cover curation duties as needed
• Commitment to i’s editorial standards of impartial and incisive coverage, and appreciation for i’s audience and tone

Required skills and experience

• 3+ years in a digital newsroom, ideally in a fast-paced live news environment
• Experience managing homepage(s) for a digital news brand, or equivalent
• Experience curating news stories for a premium audience
• Experience writing push notifications 
• Exceptional news judgement
• Proficient with Wordpress or equivalent CMS
• Ability to write effective headlines and choose engaging images
• Proficiency with Photoshop or equivalent image editing tools 
• Comfortable using analytics software such as GA4 or equivalent
• Good knowledge of media law and the Editors’ Code of Practice 

About US

i is Britain’s youngest national news publisher – and one of the most trusted. i has a unique mission: publishing non-partisan reporting and intelligent opinion. With a strong digital subscriber audience and a healthy print circulation, i has also grown digital reach to 11m users a month. Its newsroom breaks some of the biggest stories in UK journalism. Growing in influence and profitable, i is shortlisted for News Website of the Year and National Newspaper of the Year in the 2024 Press Awards, and is a recent winner of Daily Newspaper of the Year (London Press Club) and News Website of the Year (Online Media Awards). We pride ourselves on having a dynamic, collegiate work environment that celebrates creativity, innovation and success.

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.