Editor - AsianInvestor

Purpose of the Role: The editor is responsible for leading AI’s editorial team, and providing the direction, planning and strategy to support the brand’s multimedia channels. She/he is required to oversee the reporting team, foster team morale and cohesion, and ensure the publication’s high-quality content standards and KPIs are met. As the most senior member of the editorial team, s/he will play a key role in engaging with the industry, representing AI at branded events and working closely with Haymarket’s events, commercial and product teams. Key Responsbilities: - Managing the AI editorial team to ensure high-quality content standards and KPIs are met, while fostering team morale and cohesiveness. - This includes leading quarterly performance reviews for all editorial team members. - Leading weekly forward-planning meetings for the coming week, month and quarter, documenting the plans on a public spreadsheet and tracking reporter progress to ensure completion. - Regularly monitoring and reviewing audience analytics and article performance with the editorial team and applying the learnings to maximise engagement and SEO optimisation - Optimising the AI website and working with the digital team to ensure homepage, site navigation and story layouts are engaging our readers. - Leading the coverage in a way that ensures there is a strong purpose to AI stories, that each is timely and relevant to our audience of (mostly) institutional investors. - Liaising with reporters regularly to work on news angles and story comprehension to ensure each story conforms to AI’s high quality standards. - Editing and sub-editing copy. - Ensuring editorial independence and integrity of published content. - Writing at least 2 stories a week for the website. - Coordinating with and directing freelance contributors and copyeditors. - Developing a consistent AI social media presence to boost audience engagement. - Liaising with marketing to help promote AI editorial content and audience growth. - Working constructively with commercial teams to help ensure AI’s brand success alongside editorial objectives. - Ensure support for the Asset Owner Insights (AOI) data-led tool and platform, by providing key insights every month to the database sourced from each editorial member and ensuring AOI insights are leveraged each week as the basis of an editorial content piece. - Representing AI at events and working cooperatively with events/awards teams to advise on events/awards content and facilitate pre-and-post event/awards coverage that augments editorial objectives. - Serving as AI’s brand ambassador at external meetings and events. - Providing regular check-ins and updates to Haymarket’s editorial director on AI activities. - Lending knowledge and expertise to assist other Haymarket editorial and operational teams as needed. Key Skills: An ideal candidate will: - Have 10+ years of experience in journalism, including roles as an editor and reporter of financial coverage. - Have extensive knowledge of asset management with strong connections to the industry and among large institutional investors in Asia Pacific. - Demonstrate familiarity with issues facing a variety of asset owners, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies and family offices. - Experience actively seeking and building ties to the industry. - Be an empathetic team leader who instils confidence, trust, strong morale and communication within the AI editorial team. - Know how to optimise content and grow a digital audience.