US Assistant Social Media Editor

Location: NYC - Astor Place

Salary: $50,000 - $70,000 depending on experience

Position: Permanent

Job Description

Dailymail.com is the world’s largest English-language newspaper website with more than 200 million monthly unique visitors. Our teams across the globe strive to provide our readers with engaging, fast and rolling news, 24/7, 365 days a year. With more than 360 journalists worldwide, we are seeking individuals who want to join a global media organization with excellent career development opportunities.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and package the Daily Mail content for social distribution.
• Assist with the daily maintenance of all the official Daily Mail accounts to engage with readers and drive traffic.
• Monitor daily social media analytics to gauge success of social media efforts and initiatives.
• Assist with coordination of and social interaction during live events such as award shows.
• Monitor the competitive landscape, identify traffic-driving trends in social media and news consumption.

Person Specification

• Experience managing social media platforms for a digital media publication.
• Demonstrated ability to use social media to distribute content and engage with audience.
• Experience with social flow
• A clear understanding of the voice of the content
• Ability to gather and analyse social media data and analytics.
• In-depth knowledge of Facebook and how it can be leveraged to promote publisher content.
• Experience with online monitoring and social media measurement platforms, especially Facebook Insights
• Proficiency in Adobe Premier Pro is desirable.

To apply please attach a C.V., links to your editorial work online, and links to your active/professional social media accounts.

About dmg::media

dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches one in two Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country.*

Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, Metro.co.uk, i and inews.co.uk reach more than 10.1m people daily in the UK.*

Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 190M unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.**

Our newsbrands maintain an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most to our readers, ensuring that we remain experts at delivering relevant and insightful content.

In October, the Mail became the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 7- million followers. 

*PAMCo H2 2023

**GA 2023 September

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.