**Rewritten Job Title:**

Lead Digital Storyteller: Drive National Geographic's Digital Vision Forward

Join the National Geographic team as a Lead Digital Storyteller and shape the future of digital storytelling! This exciting opportunity is a fully remote position, offering a competitive salary and a chance to work with a talented team of editors and creatives. If you're a visionary leader with a passion for digital storytelling, we want to hear from you!

As a Lead Digital Storyteller, you'll be responsible for driving National Geographic's digital vision forward by managing a team of editors, creating and executing content strategies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact stories. You'll be the driving force behind National Geographic's digital storytelling, using data and experimentation to test new concepts and formats.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of editors, including hiring, coaching, and performance management
• Align content and promotion strategies with the Executive Editor of Digital, collaborating with teams across the company
• Run regular digital editorial pitch meetings, making decisions on story assignments and pitches
• Approve, reframe, or kill story pitches as needed, deciding paywall status and weekly publishing cadence
• Instruct and set expectations for story framing and length, using data and experimentation to test new concepts
• Advise on headlines and help editors craft compelling headlines, testing them as needed
• Collaborate with the digital photo manager, graphics team, and interactive storytelling team to plan and publish engaging content
• Attend weekly leadership meetings to report on upcoming content and contribute to business objectives
• Meet with PR and Marketing teams to strategize creative solutions and reshape print-first stories
• Identify digital-first story packages with potential for synergy and franchising
• Work closely with the Director of Integrated Storytelling to conceptualize digital content for synergy priority needs
• Report on daily trends and execute digital publishing strategically
• Collaborate with the Digital Engagement Team to build and oversee the editorial Search strategy
• Regularly collaborate with the Social team on digital content ideation and execute bigger digital projects
• Hold monthly data meetings with the editorial team to report on performance and strategies
• Meet weekly with direct reports to provide feedback on performance and output

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 8+ years of editorial experience in digital publishing, including management and supervisory responsibility
• Strong background in writing, editing, and digital operations, with a broad knowledge of search engine optimization
• Future-forward digital manager with superior conceptual editing skills and big-picture digital strategy
• Ability to write digitally optimized headlines and text
• Highly developed ability to recognize and create story ideas, including ideas with major visual and multimedia components
• Unflappability and a cheerful attitude under publishing pressures
• Ability to work cooperatively with a variety of personalities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Keen sense of the competitive media landscape, tried tactics, and industry trends
• Ability to help with recruiting and retaining talent
• Understanding of priorities and demands of a large umbrella company, such as The Walt Disney Company
• Patient and effective working style with multiple divisions and external partners

Education:

• Bachelor's degree with concentrated studies in journalism, digital media, or communication

Compensation:

• Hiring range: $163,500 to $219,200 per year
• Base pay may vary depending on internal equity, geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Job Type:

• Full-time

Location:

• Washington, DC, USA

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