Editorial

Executive Editor, TechTarget CIO/IT Strategy Media

Newton, MA

TechTarget’s CIO/IT Strategy Media Group is seeking an executive editor who will be responsible for TechTarget Web sites SearchCIO.com and SearchCompliance.com, which provide news, trends, strategies and technical advice to CIOs and other high-ranking IT managers including regulatory compliance officers. The editor is responsible for delivering on an editorial mission that makes the sites among the top information sources in the market and will also coordinate coverage within the IT Strategies (CIO) group and with editorial staffs in other media groups. This position involves oversight of one or more junior staff members.

Ideal candidates have five years experience overseeing editorial operations for a Web site, knowledge of the CIO and IT strategies market, and a demonstrable success editing and understanding technical content.

Essential Job Functions:

• Develop editorial calendar;
• Recruit bloggers and freelance writers;
• Assign and edit content;
• Write as needed;
• Write surveys and report survey data;
• Participate in media group editorial management;
• Support Product Management and Marketing depts. as needed.
  

Knowledge, skills and abilities required:

• Bachelor’s degree;
• Should understand current technology and IT strategy issues and how they impact senior IT managers in midmarket and enterprise companies. Knowledge of compliance, security and disaster recovery helpful;
• Ability to assign and edit to both freelance and expert authors;
• Ability to report and write;
• Good conceptual skills to organize coverage; and,
• Good management skills to organize flow of assigning, editing, and interfacing with production.
  

Please contact jobs@techtarget.com