Deputy Editor, InvestorPlace.com

InvestorPlace.com is searching for a passionate and strategic Deputy Editor to join our team.

The Deputy Editor will directly support InvestorPlace.com's Editor-in-Chief in driving editorial direction as we continue to grow. They will also play a key role in leading, inspiring, and developing our team of editors and writers (employees and freelancers). The right person for this position embraces data to make decisions, but also has an incredible nose for a great story and the overall mood of our readers.

The right person wants to continue to evolve and grow our newsroom. Our team produces more than 60 articles each trading day, along with social media and email newsletters. We produce a lot of content, so we're looking for a Deputy Editor who is comfortable in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

While we are a growth-oriented newsroom with big plans in 2024, InvestorPlace.com places great emphasis on people development. We're looking for a Deputy Editor eager to invest in career development and in expanding teams.

InvestorPlace.com takes our readers' financial future seriously and strives to enrich, educate, and entertain self-directed investors through engaging content. We have partnerships with major sites like Yahoo!, MarketWatch, Business Insider, MSN, and Nasdaq, and our site operates as a storefront for more than 20 premium subscription services as part of a larger, established publicly traded publishing company.

We aim to create more confident investors, so the primary responsibility of the job is doing everything it takes to create and foster the environment that will grow the audience for InvestorPlace.com content.

InvestorPlace is a subsidiary of MarketWise. MarketWise offers a comprehensive portfolio of high-quality, independent, and spirited investment research, as well as several software and analytical tools on a subscription basis, covering a broad spectrum of investments - ranging from commodities to equities, to distressed debt and cryptocurrencies. MarketWise offers more than 100 products on multiple platforms through its customer-facing brands.

Work closely with the Editor-in-Chief to evolve and maintain an editorial strategy for InvestorPlace.com that aligns with our company's overall goal of selling subscription investing products.
• Hire and train new editors (full time and freelance), in addition to fostering a culture of growth and development for all employees and freelancers.
• Maintain, measure, and expand third-party content partnerships.
• Develop and lead various team initiatives such as social media strategy, freelance writer onboarding, editorial experimentation, and employee education opportunities.
• Collaborate with colleagues in sales, marketing, product, copywriting, and operations to ensure that the editorial experience both supports and expands their efforts.
• Prioritize big opportunities from small, and focus appropriate time, energy, and effort on those ideas most likely to make a meaningful impact.

• Our ideal candidate will be a time-tested editor comfortable with everything from nitty-gritty daily edits to the management of an editorial operation at scale. Your work will reflect an ability to influence positive change through feedback and to transform writing quality and style.
• Our ideal candidate will be able to speak thoughtfully about audience development, SEO, and digital workflows. Your work should demonstrate that you know how to find, attract, and engage a large audience of online readers.
• You should feel at home managing multiple workflows and have a demonstrable ability to prioritize and execute effectively.
• Our ideal candidate embraces data and is comfortable using it to make decisions, while at the same time trusting and honing a new instinct that honors the art of the written word. Candidates should be comfortable with analytics tools and content management systems such as WordPress.
• Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing
• Visual acuity for reading and using the computer
• Ability to perceive
• Ability to freely move about the office
• Ability to use the phone/computer/keyboard/mouse/general office equipment for extended periods of time
• Ability to communicate with others in order to exchange information
• Fluency in the English language

About Alta

Alta brings together world-class Wealth Tech with the insights of investing legends to enrich and educate investors. Publishers TradeSmith and InvestorPlace have teamed up to bring advanced market insights and user-friendly tools to create lasting wealth for their readers.

For 40 years, InvestorPlace has published detailed market research and recommendations for self-directed investors, financial advisors, and money managers. TradeSmith began as a humble system meant to track portfolios using trailing stops. Almost 20 years later, TradeSmith has evolved into a powerful suite of Wealth Tech tools to limit risk and maximize upside with their ground-breaking analytics. Together, they formed Alta to provide the best of expert analysis with breakthrough technology to level the playing field for the everyday investor.

The work of our analysts has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Bloomberg, Time, MarketWatch, Barron's and USA Today. Inside our company's DNA, you'll find a relentless focus on respectfulness, hustle, ingenuity, adaptability, clear communication, data analytics, open mindedness, and creativity.

Our commitment:

As an employer committed to equal opportunity and a diverse workforce, all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.