Copy Editor, PS

WHO WE ARE

PS creates inspirational and accessible lifestyle content that helps our audience live more balanced and fulfilling lives. Our coverage is rooted in real-life stories, first-person perspectives, and expert-backed advice. We embody positivity, honesty, and straightforwardness across our content, from hype-checking the latest beauty treatments and workouts to curating the products and trends worth your time and money.

PS is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Copy edit .com articles across the PS network for grammar, punctuation, clarity, style, accuracy, and spelling, adhering closely to PS’s style guide and editorial guidelines
• Copy edit content for other teams throughout the brand (video, marketing, social, design, branded, etc.) for grammar, punctuation, clarity, style, accuracy, and spelling.
• Respond to copy questions from editors and other departments as needed
• Proactively suggest improvements to processes and strategies both within copy team and across edit
• Regularly sends feedback and reminders on copy style and grammar to writers and editors via email and Slack as necessary
• Stays in good communication with senior copy editor on both a day-to-day and big-picture level.

• Takes feedback from senior copy editor to improve copy editing skills.

SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE:

• Supporting excellence across copy for the brand
• Having a firm understanding of the PS voice and copyediting accordingly
• Having a firm understanding of PS’s SEO best practices, and ensuring posts follow SEO guidelines in links, tags, and search titles
• Being proficient with PS style, tagging guidelines, and basic HTML
• Being able to move quickly and shift priorities as needed.

WHO YOU ARE

• 2+ years of experience in writing/editing/blogging, online publishing, or related field 
• 2+ years of online copy editing experience (required)
• A thorough knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and AP and Chicago style (required)
• A knowledge …