Enterprise Editor

Role & Team

Business Insider is hiring an Enterprise Editor to lead our teams focused on investigative and enterprising business journalism. An award-winning publication multiple times over, Business Insider has long prioritized in-depth, revelatory journalism. This editor will be charged with shepherding the newsroom’s pursuit of such distinguishing coverage. 

The role involves oversight of BI’s features and investigative desks. The Enterprise Editor is expected to lead their own teams and also work with other reporters and editors across the newsroom.

The editor is expected to bring a vision that aligns with Business Insider’s focus on business, technology, finance, and innovation. This person should be skilled at selecting subjects, guiding and inspiring reporters and editors, keeping efforts on track, and delivering compelling, impactful, and bulletproof stories. 

This editor would oversee stories and packages such as Warehouse Nation, or our investigation into a prison healthcare provider’s bankruptcy maneuver.

The Enterprise Editor will work closely with the Editor in Chief to establish reporting and publication goals for the Enterprise team. This role will be located in New York City, with the editor expected to work from our headquarters at One Liberty Plaza three to five days a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage reporters and editors on BI’s key enterprise teams and ensure teams are staffed with top talent.
• Inspire and guide to excellence through story selection that aligns with our business-focused coverage mission.
• Top-edit sensitive and complex stories, including working with our legal department, and coordinating fact-checking.
• Ensure the team is delivering on appropriate timetables.   

The Ideal candidate has:

• At least 15 years of journalism experience with a proven track record of success as an editor including of enterprise journalism, and experience building and managing teams. 
• Significant business or finance journalism experience and a passion for the subject.
• A track record of success with long-form and enterprise journalism. 
• Major journalistic accomplishments, including high-impact journalism.
• Facility working with anonymous sources.
• A proven ability to run big editorial projects. 
• A proven ability to successfully edit complicated stories. 
• A proven ability to successfully lead and manage reporters and editors.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple challenges simultaneously.
• A passion for news and the ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

Business Insider is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and, when making employment decisions, does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality or national origin, religion, disability, familial status, and military or veteran status. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented groups to apply.