Writer – Remote Jobs

Job Type: HuffPost Shopping Writer from home
Location: Arlington work from home
Company: HuffPost

Are you the kind of writer who has an obsession with locating the best online deals? Do you enjoy recommending goods to others that, in small or large ways, would improve their lives? Do you also love studying data to find new ways to build your audience, and do you have any expertise with affiliate marketing? HuffPost is seeking a Shopping Writer to become a part of our expanding team.

A writer for HuffPost Shopping should be a seasoned, conversational writer with experience in creating lifestyle material pertaining to consumers, shopping, or other topics, as well as a readiness to pick up and apply best practices that increase income. In order to reduce the amount of labor readers must do in order to locate goods and services that will improve their lives, they should be dedicated to spotting daily offers and penning a range of narrative styles that bring in money. Our stories at HuffPost Shopping are based on thorough sourcing, reliable reviews, astute reporting, brand discovery, and data analytics.}

Responsibilities:

• Creating and disseminating original, shareable product tales in addition to SEO-optimized buying advice and product reviews
• Frequently engaging with subjects that are captivating, shareable, and encapsulating the current social and cultural landscape; you should have a pulse on these developments and be willing and able to convert them into stories that may be purchased.
• submitting draft content that complies with HuffPost’s style guide and standards, is neat, properly referenced, organized, and formatted.
• Pitching and creating shopping stories strategically to meet deadlines and increase audience engagement and income
• creating sale stories for the best prices that are pertinent to our audience and doing daily searches for sales
• Using Slack to communicate with the team all day long, presenting ideas and doing tasks fast
• investigating companies and goods that appeal to the HuffPost readership across a range of price points and sectors. Writers should constantly be learning more about the brands that work successfully for us and about income.
• monitoring and evaluating affiliate statistics and traffic to your posts in order to strategically propose fresh concepts
• weekly production of syndicated tales
• working erratic hours during major sales and occasions (such as Black Friday, Prime Day, etc.)
• Our dedication to trying out new projects that result in the dissemination of happiness and the truth is one of the things that makes BuzzFeed a leader in digital media. As a result, you can be requested to conduct interviews and screenings of job applicants, present or train your knowledge to your coworkers, participate in company-sponsored networking or recruitment events, or become a member of a union.

Requirements:

• At least two to four years of writing experience in the retail or eCommerce industries OR comparable experience in creating other consumer-focused service journalism
• Practical understanding of search engine optimization, affiliate data, and networks
• A strong desire to discover excellent offers and the ability to use the resources and information available to screen out bad deals
• strong familiarity with and enthusiasm for the following fields: Technology, devices, fashion, beauty, food, health, job, travel, house, pets, and parenthood
• shown interest in and thorough understanding of online shops, offers, tactics, and e-commerce
• Outstanding packaging and headline writing abilities as well as a readiness to absorb audience development team knowledge about audience behavior
• solid familiarity with the voice and readership of HuffPost or other general-interest publications
• capable of working quickly, meeting deadlines, and supporting a team that is goal-oriented.
• A minimum of one original story should be produced each day, and you should be able to do it at a rate and quality that complements the team’s objectives and involves your boss.