Sub Editor Job Description
Sub editor
provides creative guidance to associate editors, deputy editors, designers, and freelance creators to ensure they are meeting production deadlines and deliverables.
Sub Editor Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Must have and maintain a wide knowledge of current affairs and trends through reading various titles other media platforms
Assisting the Production Editor in managing the workflow, liaising with fashion, editorial, design and production teams on a daily basis to keep workflow on schedule
Head up a team of 8 Chinese speaking Translators and Sub Editors
Be the Chinese speaking point of contact for other Studio Production Team Managers
Running daily status reports to monitor internal SLAs and completion of assets for upload
Various ad hoc duties
Scheduling the team’s daily and weekly targets according to role type and studio capacity
Quality checking product page copy that has been translated and subbed by the in house team
Sense checking live uploads
Maintaining house style documents, glossaries and training material
Sub Editor Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Education for Sub Editor
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the sub editor job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in English, Journalism, Politics, International Relations, Economics, Political Science, Fashion, Mass Communication, Language Studies, Communications
Skills for Sub Editor
Desired skills for sub editor include:
Apple computers and Adobe Photoshop
Seasonal trends
Designers and brands strong commercial awareness
Women's luxury fashion
Custom-built templates
Fashion
Its players and its consumers
Designers and brands
News sources are understand their individual characteristics
Current affairs
Desired experience for sub editor includes:
Proven experience of transcreation and sub editing, ideally within luxury retail
Confidence to liaise with a variety of departments
Proven time management and organizational skills, excellent time keeping and ability to meet deadlines
Sub-edit and translate product page copy according to in-house style guides
Ensuring that all editorial content across the French product pages reflects the aims, values, house style and tone of each site
Where possible, check accuracy of upload by checking all click-through functionality, size and fit tabs and dropdowns on the product page
Sub Editor Examples
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Sub Editor Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of sub editor. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for sub editor
- Ensuring that all editorial content across the German product pages reflects the aims, values, house style and tone of each siteWhere possible, check accuracy of upload by checking all click-through functionality, size and fit tabs and dropdowns on the product page
- Maintaining house style document, final sign off responsibility lying with Chief Sub EditorConfidence in replying to emails and attending meetings
- Ensuring that all editorial content across the German product pages reflects the aims, values, house style and tone of each site
- Sub edit and translate the product page according to in-house style guides
- Sub-editing and translating product page copy according to in-house style guides
- Ensuring that all editorial content across the Chinese product pages reflects the aims, values, house style and tone of each site
- Translate and sub-edit product page copy according to in-house style guides
- Creating and maintaining house style document, final sign off responsibility lying with Chief Sub Editors
- Confidence in replying to emails, attending meetings and representing the team when the Chief Sub Editor or Senior Sub Editors are unavailable
- Copy check uploads on both the CMS and the live site, working to tight deadlines to ensure all product descriptions are well-written in a concise, accurate and informative manner, showcasing all relevant key details
Qualifications for sub editor
- Chinese mother tongue
- Significant proven experience in managing, leading and developing an in-house team of linguists in a fast turnaround, high quality environment
- The ability to efficiently meet tight deadlines, prioritising high volumes workloads and experience in motivating others to achieve within the required timeframe
- Good working knowledge of MS Office and basic working knowledge of CMS systems
- German mother tongue
- The ability to manage global production schedules according to daily deadlines across multiple brands and experience in motivating others to achieve within the require time frame
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of sub editor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for sub editor
- Check accuracy of upload by checking all click-through functionality, size and fit tabs and dropdowns on the product page
- Help maintain THEOUTNET.COM Style Guide
- Maintain MRPORTER.COM Style Guide
- Maintaining house style document, final sign off responsibility lying with Product Editor
- Maintaining house style guides
- Work closely with Product Editorial Translations to ensure a steady workflow, communicate changes in forecast and schedule audits
- Subbing/creating marketing copy, email copy and general site copy, as and when required
- Assisting the Production Editor in managing the marketing approvals process
- Assisting the Production Editor in delivering on-site assets to Web Content
- Subbing special projects as required video, printed projects, press releases
Qualifications for sub editor
- Confidence to liaise with a variety of departments to maximize output and efficiency
- Ability to lead a high-performing team in the day-to-day, driving their personal development in line with business strategy
- Time management skills, excellent time keeping, organisation and ability to meet deadlines
- Chinese mother tongue and excellent command of the English language
- Experience in proof-reading and sub-editing
- A team-player who works well in a large group
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a sub editor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for sub editor
- Delivery of daily emails
- Adapting heads and sells to suit our French readership and sense-checking copy throughout
- Subbing marketing copy, email copy and general site copy, as and when required
- Working with the rest of the translations team (design and editorial) to ensure all deadlines are met
- Subbing special projects as required video, printed projects
- Liaising with Market Manager to discuss target market, opportunities for localisation and seek approvals on translated messaging
- Covering for the Chief Sub Editor when away, subbing editorial copy
- Be a funny caption writer one minute and pedantic fact-checker the next
- Love working in busy offices but able to block out the noise and do your thing to exacting standards
- Work closely with the sub editing team, copy editing, checking facts where necessary and re-writing Homes & Gardens content to an accurate and high standard
Qualifications for sub editor
- 1-2 years of experience working as a sub-editor/copy editor or proofreader in an editorial or e-commerce environment
- Must have strong communication skills and proven ability to work within a team
- Good working knowledge of MS Office and basic working knowledge of CMS systemsProven experience of digital translating, trans-creating and sub-editing
- Able to turn over a high-volume of quality work against tight deadlines
- Excellent writing skills with incredible attention to detail
- Good understanding of InDesign
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of sub editor. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for sub editor
- Write imaginative heads, sells and captions, fit page layouts and proof read to a high standard
- Assist in the production process to ensure that production schedules are met at all times
- Assist in maintaining creative, technical and legal standards within the magazine and any associated material
- Liaise with internal departments as appropriate, including Production, Offers, Advertising, Marketing and Subscriptions
- Write imaginative content for Homes & Gardens online properties
- Work with the Global Chief Product Sub Editor to coordinate the subbing team’s daily output across all Group brands
- Checking weekly product credits, click-through functionality and navigation for the platform
- Checking mobile site
- Proofreading copy details, checking accuracy of copy against images grammar, spelling
- Sub wine content online
Qualifications for sub editor
- A good communicator who can work well in a busy team
- Solid experience as a chief sub editor or an ambitious deputy chief sub editor
- Some experience of CMS systems would be beneficial
- German mother tongue and excellent command of the English language
- Be a meticulous checker of facts
- Proof reading to the highest standard of accuracy
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of sub editor. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for sub editor
- Support the menswear and womenswear Senior Sub Editors by subbing (and occasionally writing) copy for Content, Marketing, Commercial, Social, CRM and PR teams
- Sub-edit product copy in the content management system, working to tight deadlines to ensure all descriptions are well-written in a concise, accurate and informative manner, showcasing all relevant key details
- Check accuracy of copy against images, buy notes and Size and Fit notes, checking grammar, spelling
- Help maintain THEOUTNET.COM Style Guides
- Support Deputy Editors in writer feedback sessions
- You have seen how Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter have revolutionized the way in which content is discovered by creating new content formats, followed by discovery platforms around the same
- Search for news, videos and interesting stories from around the world, keeping in mind the content format and the users of the app
- Come up with new concepts for the content format
- Creating a tagline for the story, keeping in mind the content format
- Contribute to the strategy of Global Production, input to individual markets
Qualifications for sub editor
- A team player who will enjoy working in a large team
- Manage the on-screen sub editing for the region, complying with the company house style
- Carry out on-screen sub editing, grammar, punctuation, spelling
- Handle text, tables and charts within a custom-built template
- Must have strong communication skills and proven ability to work well within a large team
- The enthusiasm and flexibility to embrace working in a fast-paced digital environment