Senior Editor - Health

Weekly Hours : 40

Role Number : 200630020-3401

Summary

Apple’s Health team is looking for an experienced editor to join a growing creative team and work alongside clinical experts and world-class technologists to reimagine how people understand their health and wellness. Use your skills and passion for creating accurate and compelling health information to help Apple’s customers live a better day and a healthier life.

A successful candidate has an innate creative spirit, a background in consumer-facing health reporting, and is a detail-oriented, strategic thinker and skilled communicator used to working with highly collaborative teams.

This is a site-based role.

Description

The senior editor helps develop, assign, edit, and sometimes write content across multiple media types and covering a spectrum of health topics. In this role, you will be responsible for creating articles and other content that maintains a consistency of voice and tone, medical accuracy, and delivers information in unique and compelling ways.

• Support the content team’s editorial leaders with planning and managing an editorial calendar
• Assist in managing writers and coordinating article and script-writing assignments
• Do daily hands-on editing of a variety of written materials, reviewing for clarity, voice, and style, monitoring citations, and vetting grammar, spelling, and other formatting fixes
• Help to write original content across a variety of formats, including articles, display copy (headlines, pull quotes, etc.), infographics, and more
• Collaborate with the greater creative team, including design and video, in the development and execution of all content experiences
• Work closely with the clinical team, leading fact-gathering conversations, collecting research, and confirming information
• Partner with copy editors and other content reviewers in the copy workflow
• Help create and maintain key supporting documents, including style guides

Minimum Qualifications

At least 8 years experience as a content writer and editor, covering health and wellness topics at a consumer-facing publication or brand

A background in working with medical experts and sources and versed in the legal-vetting process of content

Experience producing and editing content in a digital content management system

Strong communication skills and comfortable handling confidential information

At ease working in a fast-paced environment, overseeing various projects and meeting set deadlines

A deep passion for health

Preferred Qualifications

Ready to work with highly collaborative team in an iterative design process, inspired by group critique

Open-minded about a diverse array of feedback and able to synthesize it to get to the best answer to a problem

Eager to look for new ways to tell stories and use the totality of media, beyond words, to present information

A love for Apple, its products, and its customers

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (https : / / www.eeoc.gov / sites / default / files / 2023-06 / 22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf) .