America’s Test Kitchen is seeking an Associate Editor to curate recipes, stories, and other content across ATK’s digital properties, including the website, app, and newsletters. The Editor will proactively mine the ATK archive for new and improved ways to present information to readers, including assessing the accuracy and quality of previously published content and making recommendations to update and edit content as needed. The Editor will independently and continuously identify opportunities to make our content more relevant, searchable, and useful to readers. The ideal candidate has deep knowledge of food and cooking, experience working at a publication or media company, excellent writing and editing skills, and a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders in marketing, product, and design. This is a highly collaborative role, reporting to the digital Editorial Director and working across multiple editorial and creative teams.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Edit and curate content for ATK’s owned digital channels, including the website, app, and newsletters.
• Independently and proactively mine ATK’s archive of 14,000 recipes to select, update, edit, and present relevant and high-quality content to readers.
• Assess the accuracy, credibility, and relevance of new and archival content to ensure it meets editorial standards; make recommendations and refinements as needed.
• Create and execute a plan for organizing content into more user-friendly categories, adding tags and improving keywords according to internal search and SEO criteria.
• Partner with product and design teams to arrange existing content into visually appealing and user-friendly formats and collections.
• Oversee and top-edit homepage lineups for the app and website, including curation of recipes and ATK Classes according to seasonal themes and other editorial objectives.
• Write and edit headlines and other short descriptive copy to better surface and promote relevant content to readers.
• Liaise with marketing, design, social media, and product teams to select, edit, and curate content for various projects, campaigns, and initiatives.
• Partner with magazine and books teams to select, edit, and curate content to publish on the website and app.
• Identify and pursue new ways to present magazine and book content online.
• Participate in a site-wide content audit to consolidate duplicate content and edit and refine existing recipes so they meet brand standards.
• Regularly review and update content to maintain accuracy and relevance.
• Contribute to editorial and creative strategy for the website, app, and newsletters.
• Pitch, write, and edit recipes, articles, and other stories for the website and app.

What You Bring to the Team:

• At least two years of experience as an editor at a publication or media company.
• Demonstrated ability to edit recipes and stories of various lengths and types; ability to work with writers to strengthen copy.
• Strong copy editing and proofreading skills; painstaking attention to detail.
• An eye for photography and a general knowledge of food photography and video processes.
• A deep passion for and understanding of food and cooking.
• A general understanding of product and design workflows and vocabulary; knowledge of Figma a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

This position is located in our Boston, MA office in the Seaport district. It is the expectation that the person in this role will work a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) in the office and 2 days per week remotely.

About America’s Test Kitchen

The mission of America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) is to empower and inspire confidence, community, and creativity in the kitchen. Founded in 1992, the company is the leading multimedia cooking resource serving millions of fans with TV shows (America’s Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, and America’s Test Kitchen: The Next Generation), magazines (Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country), cookbooks, a podcast (Proof), FAST channels, short-form video series, and the ATK Essential Membership for digital content. Based in a state-of-the-art 15,000-square-foot test kitchen in Boston’s Seaport District, ATK has earned the trust of home cooks and culinary experts alike thanks to its one-of-a-kind processes and best-in-class techniques. Fifty full-time (admittedly very meticulous) test cooks, editors, and product testers spend their days tweaking every variable to find the very best recipes, equipment, ingredients, and techniques. Learn more at https://www.americastestkitchen.com/.

Why America’s Test Kitchen:

We're passionate about cooking, and about creating the best place to work. We're small enough for your ideas to make a big impact, and large enough to offer you opportunities to grow professionally at any stage of your career. We want you to take risks and make mistakes — that's how innovation happens in our test kitchen, in our offices, and in life.

We at America’s Test Kitchen believe food media can be a powerful force for social change. We are passionate about building an inclusive workforce that represents many different cultures, backgrounds, abilities, identities, and perspectives.

We welcome your application.