Forbes
Senior Editor, Social
Jersey City, NJ. Posted 3 months ago
The role
This person will lead social strategy across Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms to drive readers back to Forbes. They will manage the audience team, oversee scheduling, and package stories for social distribution.
What you will do
- Run day-to-day social strategy across Facebook, X, LinkedIn and emerging platforms
- Manage audience team, editing and guiding on how to package stories for social
- Oversee scheduling and operations
- Own performance reporting and use it to adjust strategy day to day
- Approve all key social copy
- Manage the publishing schedule across platforms
- Work with editors and design to package major stories, list launches and special projects
- Jump into breaking news moments with a hands-on, real-time publishing approach
- Spot platform trends early and flag opportunities for coverage and packaging
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant editorial and social media experience
- Experience with news stories
- Demonstrated people management experience, including coaching, developing, and leading high-performing teams
- Demonstrated success developing social strategies that grow engaged audiences and drive high-value referral traffic
- Strong editorial judgment and exceptional copy-editing skills
- Experience packaging complex stories for social audiences
- Experience across Facebook, LinkedIn & X
- Strong understanding of platform-specific algorithms, evolving features, and best practices
- Experience with social media analytics platforms and tools such as Google Analytics
Nice to have
- Experience with design tools like Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Canva and Figma
Before you apply
- This position is only open to candidates residing in California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pe
About the company
Forbes is an iconic global media brand that has symbolized success for over a century. The brand reaches more than 140 million people monthly worldwide through journalism, ForbesLive events and 49 licensed local editions.