Editor, Consumer Industry

About the role

Deloitte Insights is Deloitte's global publishing imprint for business research and insights, publishing 400+ articles, reports, and multimedia projects annually to educate, inform, and inspire clients on strategic business issues. As an editor, you will collaborate with subject‑matter specialists, researchers, data science and visualization professionals, designers, video strategists, and production specialists to develop reports, articles, infographics, videos, and other insights projects. Recruiting for this role ends 9/30/26.

Responsibilities

• Leverage subject‑matter expertise and business understanding when collaborating with Deloitte business leaders, internal and external thought leaders, research professionals, and publishing/marketing colleagues to strategize, develop, and execute research and insights stories on prioritized topics.
• Ensure intellectual rigor and credibility by applying journalistic curiosity and skepticism—questioning data sources, methodology, and conclusions; maintaining precision in language around claims and statistics; challenging assumptions before publication.
• Evaluate insights projects’ novelty in the generative AI era and alignment with target audiences’ informational needs and Deloitte’s expertise and business priorities to identify unique value.
• Serve as a storytelling strategist: advise on optimal content types, leverage multimedia/multimodal storytelling, and develop copy suited to the medium (reports, articles, infographics, videos, dashboards, etc.).
• Adapt to project needs, acting as ghostwriter, editor, infographic copywriter, scriptwriter, etc.; calibrate editing effort from developmental edits to light polish for grammar and style.
• Help authors tell their stories effectively while advising on novelty, accuracy, clarity, utility, audience engagement, and adherence to editorial best practices; improve others’ work without overtly marking it as your own.
• Champion Deloitte’s audiences by understanding their content consumption behaviors and advising authors accordingly.
• Steward each project through the full content development process, coordinating with authors, designers, marketing, and internal teams to meet objectives, clarify expectations, and hit timelines.
• Edit copy for factual accuracy, grammar, punctuation, readability, flow, and style; apply SEO and GEO best practices.
• Leverage generative AI per firm policies as a supplemental tool while ensuring projects remain thoroughly human‑designed, -developed, -led, and -vetted.
• Coach Deloitte content creators on language usage, writing style, storytelling effectiveness, and Deloitte Insights’ production processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in writing, editing, and copyediting content in American English (business journalism experience strongly preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in English, literature, journalism, communications, or similar).
• Experience with writing and editing business articles and research reports.
• Exceptional editing and copyediting skills; mastery of US English grammar, conversational phrasing, and Associated Press style; ability to clearly and influentially explain edits to authors.
• Exceptional writing and oral communication skills; proven ability to translate complex concepts into easily digestible terms.
• Excellent attention to detail, laser focus on quality, and demonstrated ability to clarify a story’s main message.
• Journalist’s instinct for fact‑checking and critical thinking; ability to read research with healthy skepticism, ask probing questions about data and methodology, spot logical gaps or overstatements, and ensure precision in language around statistics and research findings.
• Outside‑in orientation, considering content projects from the perspective of the target audience’s needs and interests.
• Versatile editing and writing skills, from engaging headlines and short‑form web copy to developmental editing of long‑form research reports on complex topics.
• Experience with creating multimedia content.
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including confidence to interact with and influence personnel at all levels, listening, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, decision‑making, conflict resolution, and tact.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, content management systems, and workflow/collaboration tools such as Workfront, Microsoft Teams, etc.; knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with quick turnaround times simultaneously.
• Ability to work independently as well as with a larger, multifunctional team.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
• Preferred: Experience working for a business news publication or in a publishing house.
• Preferred: Experience with corporate thought leadership and global, cross‑industry content.
• Preferred: Experience working remotely with a global team.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $88,600 to $163,100. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including individual and organizational performance.