Web Editor

Web Editor 

The Web Editor is responsible for enhancing public perception of the firm’s global brand and positively positioning the firm for competitive commissions by ensuring excellence in visual and written communication on the firm’s website. The ideal candidate should have a deep understanding (and love) of design, strong written and verbal communication skills, and exhibit the ability to work within established parameters to strategically build our firm’s brand. A passion for emerging digital technologies is a must! 

Part of the Firmwide Marketing Team and reporting to the Managing Editor, the Web Editor successfully balances big picture strategic thinking with detail-oriented planning, coordination, and execution—ensuring the digital content and visual strategy supports the firm’s overall business plan on both a macro and micro level. The Web Editor is also responsible for coordinating multiple highly complex projects, keeping all moving parts, players, and deliverables organized and on track for timely, successful, on-budget completion.   

 In addition to keeping the firm’s website up to date, accessible, and shipshape, the Web Editor works in close collaboration with diverse stakeholders, including the Firmwide Director of Graphic Design, the Firmwide Director of Communication, local marketers, our business intelligence team, design leadership, and talent leadership, to ensure consistency and excellence in the firm’s digital content. A key requirement of the role is staying on top of emerging digital platforms and user experience best practices, as well as tracking, analyzing, and reporting web traffic metrics in ways that are meaningful to the organization while making recommendations to improve engagement. 

 Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:   

• Daily strategic oversight and tactical hands-on updating of our website   

• Ensure excellence in visual and editorial quality, as well as user experience   

• Manage projects by developing clear schedules, communicating deadlines to team members, and ensuring the timely execution of strategic (big picture) and tactical (detailed) deliverables   

• Track and analyze performance of web content, with a particular emphasis on major brand-building or promotional campaigns   

• Swiftly identify, troubleshoot, and solve bugs/technical issues that arise   

• Collaborate with the firm’s design leadership to present our design service offerings, project case studies, and talent on our website in the most impactful way  

• Collaborate with the firm’s marketing and business development leadership to understand our firm’s key pursuits and plan visually impactful, relevant content strategies to support them  

• Collaborate with the firm’s Social Media Editor and Public Relations Editor to ensure continuity between web content and promotional efforts 

• Serve as a liaison between our marketing and technology teams, translating business objectives into tangible outputs that web developers can implement 

• Assist in the creative ideation, build-out, testing, and launch of new digital communication platforms, features, and strategies (as needed)  

 Requirements:  

• Bachelor’s degree or higher  

• 3 – 5 years of experience in a design firm, media company, or related field  

• Excellent written and visual communication skills 

• Proficiency in WordPress, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Microsoft Office 

• Must be able to show previous work, including written pieces and web layouts 

 Preferred: 

• Strong graphic design skills 

• A basic understanding of web development and UX best practices 

• Experience in UX Design and Figma prototyping 

Qualified and interested candidates should submit a resume, cover letter and portfolio no larger than 4MB. If you have an online portfolio of works or personal website, please include the link in your resume. 

Salary Range Information 

We foster a culture that is diverse and inclusive and strive for pay practices that are fair, and competitive and reflect our commitment to pay equity. Our compensation decisions include but are not limited to a candidate’s qualifications including skill sets, education, experience and training, licensure and certifications credentials if applicable, and business-related factors. This practice extends to all employees, including performance considerations for merit increases, job promotions, and transfer opportunities. We additionally review our pay practices, conduct pay equity audits, and ensure our managers are trained in our pay practices on an annual basis. At the time of posting this job advertisement, commensurate with qualifications, and based on location, the annual pay salary range for this position is between $55,200.00 and $70,000.00. 

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion 

At Perkins&Will we believe that inclusion spurs creativity and that innovation is born from an engaged culture of diverse people + ideas. By moving beyond barriers and stereotypes of gender, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status; we are committed to building an organization that reflects the diversity of the communities and clients we serve.  

"Design has the power to inspire joy, uplift lives, and strengthen the spirit of community." 

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement 

Perkins&Will has established and adopted an Equal Employment Opportunity Employment policy (“EEO”), which is part of the Company’s Human Resources Policy. The purpose of this EEO policy is to ensure that all employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis, and without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender reassignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. In some cases, local laws and regulations may provide greater protections than those outlined here and employees will be covered by the laws of their local jurisdiction. 

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision 

Perkins&Will will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.