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What’s the Role? As Trends Editor you will lead a team to produce high-quality multi-platform content that resonates with our audience. You will collaborate with other department heads to maximize output and gather insights. You will identify and break national stories involving major retailers, legislation, policy, and every day issues affecting Americans. You will assign, edit, and publish stories covering a variety of topics including trending news, heath, lifestyle, motors, tech, and travel. You will develop SEO and search-driven content strategies to increase readership and search visibility, create trend-focused coverage and optimized headlines. You will monitor analytics, Google Trends, Parsley, and audience performance to guide editorial decisions while ensuring accuracy, speed and editorial standards in a high-volume breaking news environment. What You’ll Do: ● Pulse of trending news: The Trends Editor is “in-the-know” on the latest events and is able to turn that into high-quality stories quickly and accurately across various verticals such as lifestyle, motors, tech, and general news of the day. ● Story Development: You are skilled at identifying topics which people want to click on, read, and talk about, and have a knack for crafting a punchy headline. You are experienced at conducting on-camera interviews when needed. ● Editorial Quality: You will oversee coverage that will help readers understand the trending stories of the day. You’ll work closely with reporters to develop same-day stories, as well as original, exclusive reports, by ensuring all content produced by your team meets legal and ethical standards and upholds the editorial quality of The U.S. Sun. ● Work Across Teams: You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, from video to social media, ensuring maximum audience reach and engagement. ● Content Optimization: Edit copy to ensure it’s compelling and true to The U.S. Sun’s voice. ● Maximize Traffic: Use your understanding of analytics to spot trending stories that resonate with our audience.