Associate Editor, Verywell Health
Dotdash Meredith is seeking a sharp, curious, and culturally aware Associate Editor and Writer to join their editorial team at Verywell Health. This hybrid role focuses on writing and editing engaging health stories while providing exposure to medical experts and opportunities for editorial growth.
Responsibilities
- Write quick-turn articles on health news and trending moments
- Conduct social listening across platforms to identify emerging health conversations, wellness trends, and reader questions
- Report and write internal interviews, including conversations with our Medical Expert Board
- Translate complex medical information into clear, approachable content
- Proactively pitch timely ideas based on performance data, news cycles, cultural moments, and scientific papers. Collaborate with editors to shape coverage strategy
- Edit and update articles as needed to ensure clarity, accuracy, and relevance
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 1–3 years of writing or reporting experience (internships and fellowships welcome)
- Experience using social listening to inform story ideas (if you're chronically online, that's good!)
- Strong editorial judgment
- Ability to write about health and science topics quickly without sacrificing accuracy
- Comfort working across multiple brands with distinct voices as the reach of health content at People Inc. expands
- A self-starter who stays on the pulse of cultural and health conversations
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Prescription drug coverage
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- Adoption or surrogate assistance
- Donation matching
- Tuition reimbursement
- Basic life insurance
- Basic accidental death & dismemberment
- Supplemental life insurance
- Supplemental accident insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Short term and long term disability
- Health savings and flexible spending accounts
- Family care benefits
- A generous 401K savings plan with a company match program
- 10-12 paid holidays annually
- Generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents)
- Pet insurance
- Accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
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