Editorial and Politics Operations
Help influential political users make the most out of Medium and drive adoption with conservative communities
Medium has emerged as a network for storytelling and community building, where people with ideas of consequence publish, interact meaningfully with an engaged, thoughtful audience, and drive agendas forward around the most important issues of our day. It’s where Jeb Bush shares his personal experiences with the tragedy of drug addiction and House Republicans launch a conversation around National Adoption Month. It’s where trade associations like the American Petroleum Institute and the Chamber of Commerce address the perspectives from their industries, or where the Heritage Foundation can reach a broader audience.
We are building a new kind of media product — one centered around conversation, where audience engagement is not an afterthought but something inherent to the Medium experience. A place for thoughtful and authentic voices to connect, collide, and converse — through words and images — to build upon, or challenge, our understandings, making us all smarter as a result. Medium is a network for the exchange of ideas.
What will this role do?
As an integral member of Medium’s team in D.C., this role works to ensure that high-profile individuals and organizations experience success on Medium. This person has a thorough knowledge of the platform and loves helping other people become expert users. The ideal candidate is deeply immersed in Washington’s culture, with experience forging meaningful working relationships with conservative organizations, communities, and individuals. He or she will have an instinct for news and intuitively know the right person and/or organization to contact about writing at the right time.
As the point of contact at Medium for many influential voices, this person onboards, educates, and supports, ensuring positive and effective experiences on the platform. He or she has a sharp editorial eye to shape and provide feedback on posts and help these users navigate their way around the platform — connecting with other influential users, surfacing posts that might be of interest to them, and presenting them with opportunities to interact and engage.
This job requires polished editorial skills. Strong candidates may have a background in digital media or journalism, political campaigns, Congress, or something similar. He or she will have an ability to deal with ambiguity, excellent presentation and writing skills, boundless creativity, a passion for politics, and a good sense of humor. This person is an exceptional writer and editor, has excellent project management skills, and doesn’t miss a detail. He or she is extremely organized, self-directed, flexible, and comfortable working independently. And this person should love Medium for its unique opportunities for expression and interaction.
He or she is expert at helping users tell compelling stories through unique narratives that drive conversation.
This role specifically entails:
- Acting as the point of contact for high-profile Medium user relationships, providing editorial and best-practices feedback and assistance
- Creating and maintaining best practices support documents and guides to ensure successful platform usage
- Developing and managing projects aimed at building an audience of conservative readers and writers
- Driving rapid response from the conservative community around issues shaping the news, focused on unique perspectives and insights
- Using tools, data, and research to target and organize users, conversations, and behaviors
- Tracking high-profile users and managing a CRM to monitor their behavior
- Providing in-person tutorials on how to use Medium
- Facilitating inbound requests for the D.C. team
- Providing organizational and administrative support for D.C. team members
- Documenting and evangelizing best practices.
