Full Time
BASED ON EXPERIENCE
40
Aug 11, 2026
Job Summary
Associate Editors will lead ClutchPoints’ day-to-day news desk editorial coverage of all things sports. They will plan, write, and edit timely and engaging content in a fast-paced environment alongside their editorial team members. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the 24/7 sports news cycle and various digital sports platforms for distributing content.
Duties
- Identify content opportunities to maximize real-time traffic utilizing our internal content strategy and identification guide
- Write trending real-time news articles on all major sports
- Ideate more in-depth opinion editorial topics based on trending news stories
- Communicate with editorial team to optimize SEO-winning search headlines and story composition
- Communicate with graphics team on creative thumbnails for your content
- Send published articles for distribution to our social media channels
- Edit long-form content from the news desk editorial writing team
- Follow our breaking news protocol to quickly capitalize on the stories in real-time
- Track Google Trends for content ideas beyond the sports we cover in-depth (NBA and NFL)
Basic Qualifications
- Proficiency with SEO
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with editorial and content creation
- Passion and advanced understanding of the major sports and leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL)
- Understanding of trending sports news and how to craft stories/headlines to capitalize on those moments
- Flexible schedule with availability on nights and weekends
- Ability to create forward thinking evergreen content
- Ability to multitask multiple objective