📍 Location : Mumbai Metropolitan Region
🧑💼 Experience : 8–12 years
🎓 Education : Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Mass Communication, Media Studies, or a related field
✈️ Travel Requirement : Moderate (within Mumbai)
Key Responsibilities
Editorial Leadership & Strategy
-Define and execute a content strategy aligned with local, national, and global developments impacting urban audiences
-Curate daily and weekly content plans across news, civic affairs, entertainment, and global trends
-Anticipate news cycles and audience interests to prioritize high-impact stories
-Content Creation & Digital Formatting
-Oversee production of multi-format content including articles, explainers, reels, and infographics
-Ensure content is optimized for readability, mobile-first consumption, and CMS standards
-Guide teams on integrating text, visuals, and multimedia for effective digital storytelling
SEO & Social-First Publishing
-Implement SEO best practices including keyword research, metadata optimization, and internal linking
-Adapt content for social platforms using platform-native formats (short videos, threads, stories)
-Collaborate with design teams to align visuals with engagement and discovery trends
News Sense & Audience Development
-Track local developments such as infrastructure updates, civic issues, politics, and cultural events
-Mentor teams on headline writing that balances accuracy with shareability
-Use audience insights to refine tone, structure, and content depth
Team Leadership & Quality Control
-Lead and mentor writers, editors, and digital content specialists
-Ensure adherence to journalistic ethics, editorial standards, and content -quality benchmarks
-Review and approve content for factual accuracy, clarity, and technical compliance
Analytics & Continuous Improvement
-Monitor content performance using analytics tools and CMS dashboards
-Identify successful content formats and scale them through templates and repeatable frameworks
-Optimize underperforming content through improved angles, formatting, or distribution
Required Qualifications
-8–12 years of experience in digital news platforms, media organizations, or content-led publications
-Strong understanding of urban news, civic reporting, and audience-centric storytelling
-Hands-on experience with CMS platforms (e.g., WordPress) and SEO tools
-Proven ability to structure and format content for multiple digital platforms
-Excellent editorial judgment and ability to simplify complex topics
-Fluency in English; working knowledge of Hindi and Marathi preferred
Interested candidates may please write on shruti.g@mitrhr.com