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Realtor.com Executive Editor, Lifestyle & Celebrity in Austin, Texas

At Realtor.com®, we have among the most comprehensive and accurate coverage of real estate listings and the most engaged users across all the online real estate portals. Our mission is to make buying, selling, renting, and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone.

Building your career? Build it better at Realtor.com®. Join us and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time.

Are you an experienced newsroom leader? Are you looking to play a key part in developing, executing, and assessing our content and communication strategies? If you want to expand your professional goals at Realtor.com ®, this is the role for you. Join us as our newest Executive Editor and continue to Love Your Career at Realtor.com ®.

What you’ll do:

  • You will confidently run the lifestyle and celebrity verticals to support the VP, Editorial and Content in assigning high-traffic content that resonates with Realtor.com ’s audience to a dynamic team of writers.

  • You will oversee our Unique Homes, Celebrity Homes, Reality TV, Decor verticals by setting the tone, style, and standards for the content, as well as top-editing. You will develop content ideas that anticipate the trends, needs, and interests of our target audience, as well as the competitive landscape. You will also be key in developing Realtor.com ’s video strategy across these verticals.

  • You will need to have a knack for spotting exclusive celebrity content, and be able to strategize how to grow Realtor.com ’s presence in this space. You will be adept at using internal metrics and use data to guide your decision-making.

  • Your role will include strategizing, generating innovative ideas, forward planning, editing copy, and occasionally writing. This is a key role in Realtor.com ’s editorial team and you’ll be working collaboratively with other editors.

What you’ll bring:

  • 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree;

  • Impeccable editing skills and editorial judgment, with the ability to handle legally sensitive stories;

  • Solid experience in developing content strategies across digital journalism and video to build and retain a large audience ;

  • Strong SEO skills;

  • Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to juggle several tasks at once;

  • Experience in managing a team.

This is a full time role based in either New York City, NY or Austin, TX. This is a highly collaborative hybrid environment where you will work in the office three days a week.

At Realtor, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates.

The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect in the listed locations. We tailor our offers based on the selected candidate’s experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, location and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process. All ranges are location based, ranges for positions in other locations may vary based on the local market.

Salary Range for select office locations

  • New York $156,800 to $223,400

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Accordingly, offers extended for this role will include an annual bonus target typically expressed as percentage of salary. Similarly to salary, annual incentive bonus targets are set based on a variety of factors including job level, competitive market practice, experience, tenure, and essential skills.

In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, and other benefits, including “elective” benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®

Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. People are our foundation—the core that drives us passionately forward. At Realtor.com® , you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.

Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

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