About The Role
At Formula 1 our vision is to unleash the greatest racing spectacle on the planet. Our key to success is an organisation that values passion, integrity and respect.
To ensure we are reaching and maintaining these elite-level standards both on and off the track, we are seeking an ambitious Staff Writer to join our in-house editorial team working on the Formula 1 website.
The role:
- Responsible for sourcing, researching and writing stories to deadline for F1.com, including news, race and session reports, video articles and features
- Occasional travel to testing/races to carry out writing duties as a representative of Formula1.com
- Taking ownership of key editorial feature pillars
- Writing editorial to support key business objectives
- Sub-editing and publishing other writers’ copy
- Carrying out basic editing of artwork/photography for editorial use
- Fact-checking and providing editorial assistance to other departments within F1 (e.g. marketing, communications) when required
- Using analytics tools to review and seek improvements to written content, to help make our output more engaging for fans
- Curating homepage/hubs when required, ensuring a strong editorial angle and variety of content
- Contributing ideas, treatments and formats for editorial content, both written and video
- Assisting with script writing and QC-ing when required by video team
- At track, occasional video work, including post-session interviews
About You
Reporting to the Senior Editor, this is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled writer with previous editorial and analytics experience to join a high-performing team. You will ideally have the following experience:
- Degree-educated or equivalent
- Accomplished writer with proven journalistic skills and strong ‘news nose’
- Strong knowledge and understanding of F1, both current and historical
- As comfortable with long-form writing as producing short-form, accurate and polished newswriting copy
- Strong ideation skills
- Sound news judgement, with ability to take into account target audience, tone of voice and commercial/political considerations
- Outstanding communication and organisational skills
- Experience of web authoring tools, SEO and software: CMS, Adobe Experience Manager, Photoshop, FTP clients, PC operating systems
- Strong eye for detail and good sub-editing skills
- Knowledge and experience of analytical tools such as Google Analytics a plus
As a united team we achieve great things together. Are you ready to unleash your potential at F1?