Community Engagement Manager, Games
Posted on: 10 May 2024
New York, New York
Job Description
About the Role
The New York Times is looking for an experienced puzzle editor responsible for editing and promoting NYT puzzles.
This position reports to the Editorial Director, and is responsible for editing and creating and quality puzzles for New York Times Games. Duties may include working on the New York Times Crossword or a new beta game. This role is based in New York City.
Why should you apply?
This is an opportunity to help shape products that people love. New York Times Games is a unique brand, with a portfolio of hit games with millions of fans. Puzzle editors work on games collaboratively with teammates, but also end up as lead editors and creators for tentpole games such as Connections. In addition to working on puzzles, this role will allow you to work cross-functionally with product designers, engineers, marketers and social media experts.
Responsibilities:
Go through puzzle submissions and select puzzles for consideration.
Do an initial edit of at least two puzzles a week with little oversight.
Participate in Maybes reviews to discuss what puzzles to select for publication.
Produce puzzles for digital and print publication.
Assist in editing puzzles for Puzzlemania, a special print edition.
Lead editor/creator for tentpole games such as Connections or Spelling Bee
Participate/be available for community engagement on games
Proactively anticipate solver reactions and incorporate that into editing
Provide regular feedback to the editor on what standards need to be discussed and updated.
Share point of view on controversial topics and flag potential issues and solutions early in the editing process
Collaborate with producers, other editors and tools squad to improve production and workflow
Work with community team to respond to reader feedback and questions
Mentor newer puzzle editors
Basic Requirements:
3+ years editing puzzles for publication.
An appreciation for word games and puzzles.
Basic experience with web production, and basic knowledge of web tools and interfaces.
Basic knowledge of journalism ethics and standards.
New York Times
New York, New York
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as the NYT and NYTimes) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership. Founded in 1851, the paper has won 127 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper. The Times is ranked 17th in the world by circulation and 2nd in the U.S.
The paper is owned by The New York Times Company, which is publicly traded and is controlled by the Sulzberger family through a dual-class share structure. It has been owned by the family since 1896; A.G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher, and his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the company's chairman, are the fourth and fifth generation of the family to head the paper.
Nicknamed "The Gray Lady", the Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record". The paper's motto, "All the News That's Fit to Print", appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page.
Since the mid-1970s, The New York Times has greatly expanded its layout and organization, adding special weekly sections on various topics supplementing the regular news, editorials, sports, and features. Since 2008, the Times has been organized into the following sections: News, Editorials/Opinions-Columns/Op-Ed, New York (metropolitan), Business, Sports of The Times, Arts, Science, Styles, Home, Travel, and other features. On Sunday, the Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review (formerly the Week in Review), The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. The Times stayed with the broadsheet full-page set-up and an eight-column format for several years after most papers switched to six, and was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography, especially on the front page.
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