Location
Santa Monica, CA | United States
Job description
At Edmunds we’re driven to make car buying easier. Ever since we began publishing printed car guides in the 60’s, the company has been in the business of trust, innovating ways to empower and support car shoppers. When Edmunds launched the car industry’s first Internet site in 1994, we established a leadership position online and have never looked back. Now, as one of the most trusted review sites on the Internet, millions of visitors use our research, shopping and buying tools every month to make an easy and informed decision on their next car. For consumers, we bring peace of mind. For dealers, we make tools to help them solve their problems and sell more cars. How do we do it, you ask? The key ingredients are our enthusiastic employees, progressive company culture and cutting-edge technology. Want to join the team? Read on to find out how!
What You’re Applying For:
Edmunds is looking for a Script Writer to be an integral member of our 40+ person editorial team. The right candidate will be trustworthy, unbiased and capable of connecting with car shoppers on their level. This means putting aside your own personal biases in favor of one that looks at each vehicle as a potential purchase.
The role must be able to produce insightful scripts that tell a story and give car shoppers the latest information. Our ideal candidate can find the unique angle to each idea and bring that story to life. We're looking for someone who relishes the challenge of keeping up with fast-breaking developments and making quick judgments about which topics to cover. They’ll love ideating with an eye on building audience numbers and engagement across our video and social channels. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of one of the largest and most forward-thinking editorial teams in the automotive world.
What You’ll Do :
- Research and write engaging, entertaining and industry-leading (automotive) scripts for our growing YouTube and social channels
- Fact-check scripts and videos
- Identify strong story ideas and play and integral role in developing and scripting, along with our producers, video creatives, and extended content team
- Reporting to the Manager of video editorial, and working with the Executive Director, Video, and the broader video team to bring to life engaging stories and formats across Edmunds video channels
- Work with the Social Media Senior Director and the broader social team to bring to life engaging stories and video formats across Edmunds social channels
- On occasion, work with the Executive Director, Written and Director, Editorial Content in supporting news, feature and other written content
- Contribute to maintaining an environment that’s based on creativity, communication and transparency
What You Need :
- Experience creating automotive video content in either a broadcast or online environment
- Experience writing for multiple hosts or presenters with distinct voices
- Able to create factual, yet entertaining scripts with an injection of humor and levity to engage both the everyday car shopper and enthusiast
- Able to explain technical concepts in a simple way that engages the everyday car shopper and the enthusiast
- An authentic passion for cars. You're fanatical and deeply knowledgeable about our subject matter, giving you instant credibility both internally and externally
- Top-level script writing and innovative storytelling across all media, with an emphasis on video
- Automotive industry knowledge
- Able to be an active contributor within our team of hosts and writers. You’ll be hands on with writing (scripts, and accompanying articles), ideating (video, social), editing and fact checking.
- Personal reliability and integrity. Your colleagues know they can rely on you in every respect; you model this trait in all that you do
- High comfort level in taking the initiative and managing multiple projects and deadlines with an exacting attention to detail
- Ability to work cross-functionally across the organization
- Experience with video and social media platforms and audiences
- Ability to convey thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in visual, verbal and written format
- Able to listen to feedback and adjust course accordingly
The compensation range for this position is $76,200 - $132,900 per year. The base pay will take into account internal equity as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. In addition, Edmunds offers full-time employees a comprehensive total rewards package including the benefits listed below.
Edmunds Perks:
- Flexible time off
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Comprehensive Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Employees) and Health Savings Accounts (Employee and Employer Contributions)
- 401K Plan with company matching at 100%, up to 6% of eligible salary with immediate vesting
- Stock purchase program
- CarMax vehicle discount
- Up to 4 months Paid Parental Leave
- HeartCash matches employee donations to the causes that are important to them
- 2 Days of Paid Time Off for time to dedicate to social impact causes
- FitCash covers a portion of gym or fitness activity fees
- Well being sessions and events such as yoga, meditation and walking challenges
- On-going career development sessions and an annual learning event
- Pet insurance
- Sabbatical leave
- Education Reimbursement
- Pre-tax spending accounts for qualified transportation expenses
- Plus a coffee bar, frozen yogurt and more!
Working @ Edmunds.com:
Employees think it’s a pretty great place to work and some pretty impressive publications think it is too: we have been recognized as one of the best places to work by the Fortune Magazine and Great Places to Work, LA Business Journal (for the last 6 years!), Computerworld, Built in LA and Inc. Magazine. We've also been identified as one of the best workplaces specifically in Technology and also for Diversity and Asian Americans. If you’re interested in learning more and joining our mission, we’d love to hear from you!
E dmunds will consider for employment qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws.
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