At Built In, the health, safety and well-being of our employees and of our communities is a top priority. Due to the effects of COVID-19, we have decided to manage our entire business remotely until further notice. HQ-based employees will temporarily work from home until it is safe to return to our office. As we continue to grow, we are excited to be hiring for all open roles and look forward to meeting with qualified candidates in a virtual setting. For anyone who joins our team (yay!), your onboarding experience will also be conducted virtually. Thank you for your interest in Built In and be safe!

Hello, We’re Built In

Built In is on a mission to unite technology professionals with their purpose. We do that through the power of content. Today, over one million registered users and 4.5 million technology professionals use our platform every year to learn about innovative companies and new technologies, and to further their careers.

The caliber of audience we’ve cultivated means that over 1,800 companies — from the hottest tech startups to Fortune 500 companies undergoing digital transformation — trust us to share their employer brand story and fill the technology roles that drive their strategy.

Because we can help employers find hard-to-recruit talent, our B2B side is thriving. In addition, our users are finding great jobs and advancing their careers and knowledge of the tech world with Built In. That means we are rapidly growing our product and technology footprint as we are committed to building the leading SaaS product for employer branding and talent activation.

With venture funding of $30M to date with a $22M Series C raise in 2019, we are poised to disrupt recruiting for hard-to-fill roles and help technologists find their dream jobs — in their city, around the country or completely remote. If you are looking for an award-winning culture, have a desire to help people find their calling and want to be part of building best-in-class technology, Built In might fulfill your purpose.

We’re Looking for an Associate Editor

Built In’s editorial team reaches millions of tech professionals every month through deeply reported features and explainers covering key tech concepts and industry trends. The core takeaways of these stories often remain relevant for years, even as the statistics and examples they rely on become dated. This editor will work with a team of reporters to ensure our catalog of explainer journalism reaches the widest possible audience and continues to serve our readers for the long haul.

Reporting to our senior features editor, the person in this newly created position will draw on best practices from journalism and SEO to develop and execute a strategy to improve our existing stories and optimize them for search and continued social distribution. In some cases this might involve minor tweaks, like updating old statistics, adjusting display copy or defining key terms. Other times, new sections or wholesale rewrites drawing on new reporting may be necessary. In all your work, you will put the reader first and make each story as engaging, informative and actionable as it can possibly be. You will also be a resource to the broader editorial organization — and a liaison between the SEO team and our reporters and editors — in implementing established best practices and the lessons learned through our experimentation.

You’ll join an ambitious editorial team with reporting and editing experience from publications like The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, CNET, Huffington Post, Vox Media and Wirecutter. This team, which is primarily responsible for building and retaining our audience of tech professionals, reports to the VP of Growth and it is not involved with the production of employer branding or any other paid-for content.

Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend to apply to roles only when they check every box on a job description. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of qualifications and if this role is aligned with your career trajectory.

How You’ll Contribute

• Lead and manage a small team of reporters to update, expand upon and elevate existing Built In explainers while juggling reporting duties of your own.
• Experiment with new story optimization approaches, while closely tracking performance metrics, and develop documented best practices based on these insights.
• Share discoveries made through this experimentation with the broader editorial organization to help us improve the quality and performance of all our stories across the board.
• Build editorial-driven landing pages that help readers navigate Built In’s collection of evergreen tech and business reporting.
• Provide substantive comments, line edits and copy edits on drafts to elevate the quality of our storytelling and help our reporters grow professionally.

What You Need

• Three to five years of experience in a journalistic capacity, and experience reporting on technical subjects like software development, finance or data science.
• One to two years of editing experience and familiarity with the fundamentals of search engine optimization.
• Standout organizational and project management skills.
• Strong substantive, line and copy editing skills, and an eye for engaging headlines.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and an ability to lead and motivate.

Impress Us Even More

• Past experience in a full-time SEO role, or a role with a significant SEO component.
• Proven track record developing and documenting new processes, and conducting experiments based on quantitative data and feedback.

What We Value

We’re revolutionizing tech recruitment. So we question everything, because the best answers sit just to the right of a question mark. That’s our heritage as a disruptive company — as a company whose future depends on our capacity to innovate with a sense of drive, purpose and urgency. If you join Built In, you will work from this set of values:

• Be Inclusive, Always. We’re committed to a culture where all people are respected, have a say and can be their whole selves. We will uplift and advocate for one another. Always.
• Be Unreasonably Passionate. Our passion is borderline obsessive, and we’re ok with that. No one ever built anything great on a “meh.” We work with outsized passion to fulfill our mission.
• Be Humble. You don’t have all the answers. Luckily, you don’t have to. Don’t worry about being right. Be humble instead.
• Stay Curious. Curiosity is a springboard to the future. It can transform the wisp of an idea into a breakthrough. We ask “what if.” We work with wonder. It’s how we innovate.
• Lead With Solutions. Question everything. But offer solutions as you do. Raise issues. But propose a few answers. For every hole you poke, offer a way to patch it up.
• Own the Result. We have no time for blame or shame. When you stumble, own it, learn from it and get back to business.
• Do More. Do more than your job description. Take initiative. Take charge. No job is beneath you, and no job is too big. Be a leader and do more — do whatever it takes.

Be Inclusive, Always

Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend to apply to roles only when they check every box on a job description. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of qualifications and if this role is aligned with your career trajectory.

Built In is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Built In is guided by principles of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We are committed to this work over the long-term, but here’s some of what’s in place today:

• We have five thriving ERG groups: Built In For The People, BuiltOut, United We Parent, Women United in Tech and Built In Tribe.
• We have a dedicated Director, HR + Inclusion who oversees our DEI roadmap, which provides our annual metrics, goals and initiatives.
• We are proud to be led by a woman CEO and founder, and that more than half of our managers and employees identify as women.