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Job Description

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÍø is seeking a native English Editor to join our team in Shanghai as the Managing Editor. The job involves website administrative duties, writing and editing editorial content, and maintaining professional ties to the related professional community in Shanghai. The ideal candidate is someone with a professional background in writing and editing and a few years in Shanghai under their belt. It would help if you had a bulging contact book and a head full of ideas. This role, for a native English speaker, comes with a work visa and a competitive salary, as well as a seat in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÍø HQ with the rest of our team, five days a week.

What we need:

Someone to wrestle with, tame, nurture, and grow the city's best English language venue and events directory. As General Editor, you will be responsible for everything related to all our directories, including but absolutely not limited to:

• researching, creating, and updating editor's descriptions for the most popular venues and events in the city
• keeping on top of the latest openings and closings;
• analyzing and responding to user search trends and interests;
• planning and executing projects to improve and update parts of the directory that need some tender loving care;
• updating big seasonal articles and our many Essential Guides;
• using your knowledge and directory expertise to generate story ideas for freelancers;
• and liaise with the sales team to help monetize the directories, and publish Ads content on time, where applicable and appropriate.
• Approve event submissions to our events calendar and actively research good events that haven't been submitted to us but should be listed

Additionally, on the more operational side of this job, you'll spend about 50% of your time writing featured articles and shorter pieces that reference, showcase, and highlight the directories.

It's a big job. It's an important job. The General Editor is responsible for the most popular and useful part of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏÍø, and it needs someone who is passionate about making it an essential resource for the wider international and bilingual community in Shanghai.

Benefits

You’ll be working in a mixed international team with a creative work environment in an office in downtown Shanghai. We offer an above average salary, flexible holidays and work hours. Working language within the office is English. We use modern tools such as Slack and Trello for communication.

• 10 days annual leave on top of public holidays and extra days off around Christmas and NYE. No bridge days if it’s a Sunday
• Flexible work hours, early birds can start earlier and leave earlier
• A fun work environment. We are a small team who enjoy mining the city for interesting content and then telling everyone about it. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we do work hard
• Downtown office near West Nanjing road. 
• Being part of a product that’s used (and hopefully liked / appreciated?) by tens of thousands of Shanghai residents

Requirements

• You are a native English speaker
  
• You can communicate in Chinese.
• You are over-educated in the areas of Journalism, English Lit, Asian Studies, Poli Sci — something like that
• You have a mind for systems and get satisfaction from maintaining gleaming monuments of accurate, well-presented information. A touch of OCD is welcome.
• You are full of content ideas and know about lots of things happening in this city that's not covered on the site yet
• You are curious about the other people in this city and want to pigeonhole all of them in neat little categories that are searchable online for other people in this city
• You want to join a growing team that is full of ideas for expansion
• You can dive deep into a subject and come out with a comprehensive understanding
• Your writing needs to be fast, sharp, and often funny
• Basic HTML is required
• You can write with personality
• You know who we are

Finally, you satisfy China’s requirements for a work visa.

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