Deputy Style & Standards Editor, Vox.com

The Vox style and standards team is the last line of defense before our work goes out to our audience. We’re dedicated to ensuring all of our work meets the highest standards of clarity, accuracy, and fairness.

The deputy style and standards editor will work closely with the style and standards editor to ensure Vox content, including articles, videos, and podcasts, meets our high editorial standards of clarity, accuracy, inclusivity, and sensitivity. This editor will also weigh in on critical decisions about our content to ensure the work we publish reflects our goals of quality and ambition. 

This person will be a people manager and directly manage members of the style and standards team, coordinating team workflows, workload, and processes. They will interact with a wide range of editors, reporters, and audio and video producers around the newsroom, so strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential. They will manage copyediting and fact-checking requests and deadlines. They’ll also help the style and standards editor maintain our style and standards guides and keep the newsroom updated on the latest guidance.   

WHO WE ARE

Vox candidly shepherds audiences through politics and policy, business and pop culture, food, science, and everything else that matters.

Vox 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

• Use discretion and independent judgment to determine whether articles, videos, and podcasts meet our standard for publication: 
• Read, evaluate, and edit all unpublished works at both the macro and micro level using the following criteria: 
• Quality of reporting, clarity, accuracy, and strength of argument
• Adherence to best practices with regard to sensitive topics, legal liability, and inflammatory language
• Proper Vox style, spelling, and grammar
• When articles do not meet this standard, remove them from the publication queue; communicate the problems to writers and editors along with ideal solutions; work with both to …