Home Projects Editor

Apartment Therapy is looking for a Home Projects Editor to join our Home Hub team, which includes Home Projects, Style, and House Tours content. This editor-level role reports to the House Tours Director and will be a key driver of one of Apartment Therapy’s most iconic and high-performing franchises: Before + Afters.

The Home Projects Editor will own the day-to-day creation, strategy, and process behind our Before + After content, producing a high volume of stories each week while also shaping how the franchise evolves over time. This role is ideal for a strong writer-editor who is equally excited about editorial storytelling and operational excellence — someone who can think big-picture while executing quickly and consistently.

This is primarily a writing role, with the focus on writing and publishing 5–7 original home projects Before + Afters per week and refining workflows that support scale, quality, and traffic growth.

Responsibilities

Before + After Ownership & Production

• Own the full Before + After pipeline, from scouting and sourcing to interviewing, writing, editing, and publishing
  
  
• Write and publish 5–7 Before + After stories per week, maintaining Apartment Therapy’s editorial standards, voice, and service-driven approach
  
  
• Independently conduct interviews, manage Formstack questionnaires, and handle transcription and asset delivery and permission coordination
  
  
• Develop and maintain clear processes and systems that support consistency, efficiency, and growth across the franchise
  
  
• Work closely with the Home Hub team to maximize content scouting and collection to support a united approach to covering home tours

Strategy & Growth

• Own performance goals for the Before + After vertical, using traffic data and editorial insights to guide story selection, framing, and packaging
  
  
• Monitor trends in home projects, renovations, renter makeovers, and DIY to proactively source timely, high-performing stories
  
  
• Be active and adept at social media platforms to be able to find the coolest before and after projects and trends before anyone else
  
  
• Regularly ideate new formats, angles, and evolutions of the Before + After franchise to keep it fresh, competitive, and Discover-friendly
  
  
• Partner closely with the House Tours Director to refine strategy, pacing, and long-term vision for the vertical

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work cross-functionally with audience development, SEO, visuals, and other teams to optimize performance and storytelling

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience writing and/or editing in digital media or publishing, ideally within home projects, DIY, home design or lifestyle
  
  
• Demonstrated experience writing and editing Before + After or related transformation-based stories
  
  
• A strong, confident editorial voice with the ability to adapt to Apartment Therapy’s tone across platforms
  
  
• Proven ability to write a high output of stories without sacrificing quality
  
  
• Strong editorial judgment and an instinct for what makes a home project compelling and serviceable
  
  
• Experience using analytics tools such as Parse.ly and Google Analytics to inform editorial strategy
  
  
• Excellent writing, organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple workflows at once
  
  
• Comfort owning processes, improving systems, and working independently while collaborating across teams
  
  
• A flexible, solutions-oriented mindset and the ability to adapt quickly to shifting priorities

Salary Range: $70,000 - 75,000 annually

The above represents the expected salary range for this role. Ultimately, compensation is determined by level of experience and other job-related factors.