Senior Editor, Lenses & Technology

Job Responsibilities

• Build, cultivate, maintain and own key relationships with senior executives & thought leaders that drive engagement and revenue in the rapidly evolving optical lens/tech space
• Use AI-assisted research tools to accelerate sourcing, backgrounding, and fact-gathering across the optical lens and technology beat
• Maintain oversight and ownership of a large, highly technical beat and balance deadlines across 2 busy publications with a heavy and growing digital and social presence
• Incorporate AI tools to support ideation, agenda development, and content creation for live and hybrid thought-leadership events and forums
• Apply rigorous editorial judgment to fact-check and verify AI-generated content, ensuring accuracy and compliance with journalistic standards across all platforms
• Actively engage across a multilayered range of businesses, from small-business operations to complex, multibillion dollar organizations, and forge relationships across this spectrum
• Identify newsworthy stories, write compelling copy & edit articles on medical, optical and business topics
• Engage in creative feature idea development translatable across digital, print and live platforms
• Oversee major integrated editorial programs including live events and forums
• Write and copyedit articles, headlines, blurbs, decks, callouts and sideboards for layouts for Vision Monday, VMAIL, and 20/20 print & digital publications, website, newsletters, magazines and special editorial supplements
• Respond to reader inquiries and fact check as needed
• Work with clients, sales and production/design to meet all deadlines as required
• Represent publications at media events, trade shows and conferences
• Strategize and develop content for new features, live events and special reports

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree required
• Minimum of 5-8 years in news writing/editing
• Excellent writing and editing skills; strong command of English grammar and usage
• Several years of demonstrated experience as an internally motivated, professionally accountable, charismatic self-starter who takes full ownership of a complex beat
• A meticulous eye for details and accuracy, internet savvy
• Strong computer skills including MS Office (Word, PowerPoint) and ability to navigate on a variety of computer and mobile devices for use on social networking
• Excellent people and organizational skills, capable of managing multiple projects at once
• Knowledge of optical/healthcare field and business matters a plus
• Familiarity with CMS edit systems
• Thorough knowledge of social/digital media platforms, reflecting successful program/content initiatives
• Familiarity and comfort level with the retail business, both brick and mortar plus digital; someone who can cover leading groups, spark trend coverage from outside the field