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Commerce Writer, Beauty & Fashion
Location
United States
Posted
12 days ago
Salary
Not specified
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Role Description
This role will be responsible for researching and writing content for the Forbes Vetted Beauty & Grooming and Fashion sections. These sections publish a number of story types, including:
- Buying guides
- Roundups
- Tested product reviews
- News posts
- How-tos
- Columns and features
The Beauty & Fashion Writer will collaborate across areas of the business, working closely with the team’s editorial and strategy staffers to create and optimize evergreen content, and with the audience development team to create video and newsletter content as needed.
This is a remote position with an option to commute to the Jersey City Forbes office if based locally.
- Write well-researched and authoritative articles in the fashion and beauty & grooming categories, which includes apparel, jewelry and accessories, makeup, skincare, haircare, personal products and more
- Perform hands-on testing along with other research and interviews to craft high-quality, best-of-the-web content that Forbes Vetted readers can confidently rely on
- Brainstorm and pitch stories as a part of the regular monthly content planning process, based on SEO/GEO and audience data, trends, seasonality and other KPIs
- Frequently collaborate across teams, including with strategy, data, audience development, partnerships and product, as well as other editors and writers on staff
- Ideate and execute off-platform content for social, newsletter and video channels as a routine part of beauty and fashion coverage
- Leverage analytics tools like Looker to help plan content and track performance against team and individual goals
- Participate in sales event coverage, including working shifts over some holiday weekends such as Memorial Day, Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday/Cyber Monday
Qualifications
- 4+ years of expertise and experience writing about products and topics in the fashion and beauty & grooming categories
- Impeccable writing and reporting skills
- Experience with hands-on product testing in the beauty, grooming and fashion space
- Experience appearing in video
- Existing online audience or excitement to develop a following at Forbes Vetted
- Eager to innovate and experiment editorially
Requirements
- Comfortable writing about products across at least some of Forbes Vetted’s other lifestyle categories, such as travel
- Understanding how to source and cultivate experts for inclusion in articles
- Robust network of industry PR contacts
- Eye for features, storytelling and packaging that strengthens the site’s authority
Benefits
- Annual base salary range: $70,000 - $75,000
Job Requirements
- 4+ years of expertise and experience writing about products and topics in the fashion and beauty & grooming categories
- Impeccable writing and reporting skills
- Experience with hands-on product testing in the beauty, grooming and fashion space
- Experience appearing in video
- Existing online audience or excitement to develop a following at Forbes Vetted
- Eager to innovate and experiment editorially
- Comfortable writing about products across at least some of Forbes Vetted’s other lifestyle categories, such as travel
- Understanding how to source and cultivate experts for inclusion in articles
- Robust network of industry PR contacts
- Eye for features, storytelling and packaging that strengthens the site’s authority
Benefits
- Annual base salary range: $70,000 - $75,000
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