Editor

**City Editor, Montreal**

**About Ludwig Van**

Ludwig Van is a high-growth media company on its way to becoming Canada’s online home for classical music. Our primary offering is local classical music coverage in Toronto and Montréal, providing more than 650,000 arts enthusiasts and professionals with all the arts-related content they need to stay up-to-date.

We are a subsidiary of ZoomerMedia Inc., a Toronto-based media firm led by media pioneer Moses Znaimer (CityTV, MuchMusic, Musique Plus, and CP24). Other ZoomerMedia-owned and operated media properties include BlogTO, Daily Hive, Zoomer Magazine, The New Classical FM, and Vision TV.

**What We’re Looking For**
- Dynamic leader to manage our Montréal operations and strengthen our bond with our localized Québec audience.
- Fully bilingual, experienced editor with a knack for pinpointing the most compelling local stories in classical music, opera, dance and theatre each day and collaborating with colleagues to innovate content that captivates our audience.
- Versatile self-starter, ready to fine-tune our content to resonate with our established audience and attract an even broader, multifaceted readership.
- Proven background in editorial management, showcasing a talent for both creating and enhancing engaging content and a proven history of boosting reader involvement.
- Exceptional analytical abilities and willingness to embrace new challenges, aligned with our company’s emphasis on defaulting to optimism as a foundational principle.
- Exemplary communicator, well-organized, and adept at juggling diverse tasks, from curating and refining daily articles to penning various-length features and devising innovative storytelling techniques that ensure our readers’ loyalty.

**What You’ll Do**
- Spearhead the compilation of captivating performing arts stories, selecting those that resonate most with our readers.
- Manage the day-to-day operations of our weekday content, including pioneering new content forms, crafting and refining stories, and fostering reader engagement and dialogue.
- Assign stories, particularly concert reviews, to a small freelance team.
- Collaborate closely with our growth and product teams to serve advertising campaigns, poll our readership, discern our current followers’ preferences and strategize to cultivate new reader segments.
- Harness audience analytics to take charge of our local Montreal content strategy, revitalizing content for current readers while drawing in a fresh audience.
- Manage the strategic planning of our content calendar for daily content, ensuring we maintain a cohesive company-wide message.
- Be prepared to engage in our production cycle five days a week, with occasional weekend events to align with our publishing timetable.

**Ce que vous apporterez**
- Bilinguisme Anglais/Français (niveau langue maternelle)
- Expérience en journalisme, un atout
- Expérience ou passion pour la musique classique
- Expérience en rédaction, édition et développement de lectorat
- Approche axée sur le lecteur (storytelling)
- Être capable d’écrire en démontrant une voix originale et d’exprimer votre opinion
- Une volonté de prendre des risques et d’expérimenter pour répondre aux besoins des lecteurs
- Une expérience avérée dans la croissance de l’engagement
- Une capacité avérée à dénicher des angles journalistiques susceptibles d’intéresser un lectorat fortement éduqué
- Une habilité avérée à réagir rapidement et à livrer la marchandise dans un contexte d’échéanciers quotidiens
- Une attitude axée sur les résultats

**Notre environnement de travail**
- Télétravail
- Salaire compétitif
- Assurances dentaires et médicales
- Politique de vacances non plafonnées
- Accès à nos événements et concerts
- Une chance de contribuer à créer et à façonner l’avenir du journalisme artistique au Canada.

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**Salary**: $55,000.00-$70,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Language**:

- French (required)
- English (required)

Work Location: In person