Associate Newsroom SEO Editor (Contract)

The Athletic is looking for an Associate Newsroom SEO Editor to join their audience team and grow readership through search optimization. The role involves optimizing news, evergreen content, and live journalism, contributing to an audience-focused newsroom. Responsibilities include managing audience trends, providing strategic recommendations to editors, maintaining Top Stories rankings, and guiding live coverage. The editor will optimize content daily, conduct keyword research, and analyze historical data for tentpole events; monitor search engine algorithm changes; requires SEO experience at a major publisher and familiarity with tools like Google Search Console and SEMRush. The Athletic offers a comprehensive US benefits package, including employer-contributed medical, dental, and vision plans, savings accounts, a 401k retirement savings plan, and paid time off, including vacation and parental leave.