Junior Audience Editor (US Based)

Permanent employee, Full-time · USA

Your mission

This role is: FULL TIME and the applicants must live and be based in the US.

HELLO! continues to grow and is looking for a data-driven, highly organised Junior Audience Editor to help HELLO! to maintain its impressive organic growth.

Role Overview

We're looking for a Junior Audience Editor based in the US to support our editorial team by helping shape and grow our reach across entertainment and lifestyle content.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who’s worked in digital publishing, especially as a writer with SEO know-how, and is ready to take a step into a more strategic audience role. You'll work closely with our UK and US teams to spot trends, pitch smart content ideas, and help optimize stories for search and discoverability.


Key Responsibilities
  • Spot trending topics in the US (and globally) that align with our brand, and flag them to the editorial team in real time

  • Use keyword and trend tools to suggest article ideas and support writers with SEO-optimized headlines, metadata, and internal links

  • Assist with optimizing and updating existing articles to improve rankings and visibility

  • Track competitors and flag when they’re ranking well or covering topics we’re missing

  • Help plan and support coverage of major entertainment events (e.g., award shows, reality finales) from a performance perspective

  • Monitor article performance using tools like Google Search Console and Google Analytics, and share insights and quick wins with the team

  • Learn and grow into a more strategic audience development role with training and support

Your profile
Candidates must be currently living and based in the US.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who’s worked in digital publishing, especially as a writer with SEO know-how, and is ready to take a step into a more strategic audience role. You'll work closely with our UK and US teams to spot trends, pitch smart content ideas, and help optimize stories for search and discoverability.

Experience
  • Experience writing or editing content with SEO in mind, ideally for an entertainment, lifestyle, or celebrity-focused site

  • A good grasp of SEO basics (search intent, keyword research, optimizing headlines, metadata, etc.)

  • A genuine interest in digital trends, pop culture, and how people find and engage with content online

  • Comfortable using tools like Google Trends, Search Console, or similar

  • Highly organized, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, you’ll be working closely with writers and editors

  • Based in the United States, ideally with awareness of US cultural moments and TV/celebrity events

Qualifications
  • Experience writing or editing content with SEO in mind, ideally for an entertainment, lifestyle, or celebrity-focused site

  • A good grasp of SEO basics (search intent, keyword research, optimizing headlines, metadata, etc.)

  • A genuine interest in digital trends, pop culture, and how people find and engage with content online

  • Comfortable using tools like Google Trends, Search Console, or similar

  • Highly organized, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, you’ll be working closely with writers and editors

  • Based in the United States, ideally with awareness of US cultural moments and TV/celebrity events

Benefits
  • 25 days annual leave per year (for full time employees)

  • 1 birthday day per year

  • Private Medical Scheme

  • Employee Assistance Programme

  • Life Assurance currently 6 x salary

  • Generous Employer Pension contributions

  • Group Income Protection Scheme

  • Plus all of the perks of working for a fun media company!

About us

MISSION STATEMENT

To influence and inspire with relevant, exclusive and entertaining content in a positive, celebratory and kind environment via stringent editorial integrity.

History of Hello

HELLO! is a market-leading lifestyle and celebrity publication, known for its positive and celebratory reporting and unrivalled showbiz exclusives which have been entertaining audiences since 1988.

Over the years, its digital brand has transformed from a small legacy publishing site into an influential global website.

HELLO! is part of the HOLA group, who launched ¡HOLA! magazine in Barcelona in 1944. The husband and wife team of Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón launched the publication with the aim of adding some sparkle to their readers’ lives. Always positive,¡HOLA! and HELLO! continue to remain true to the guiding principles of a new type of journalism - always positive, highly visual and celebratory, allowing readers a moment of escape into the worlds of the rich and famous to inspire, brighten and entertain.

With offices in London, New York and Toronto, HELLO! Magazine is now a 24-hour global website, with unique user experiences in our three main audience territories of the UK, US and Canada.

Our readership is more global than that however, with audiences also visiting the site from Australia, India, Europe and all other parts of the world.

HELLO! looks forward to hearing from you!
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