How to hire a market editor

How to hire a market editor, step by step

Here's a step-by-step market editor hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a market editor job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new market editor
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   The market editor hiring process starts by determining what type of worker you actually need. Certain roles might require a full-time employee, whereas part-time workers or contractors can do others.

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   A market editor's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, market editors from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   This list shows salaries for various types of market editors.

   Type of Market Editor	Description	Hourly rate
   Market Editor	Editors plan, review, and revise content for publication.	$16-46
   Editing Internship	An editorial intern is responsible for assisting the editorial department of an organization with publishing various media and digital content. Editorial interns shadow tenured editorial staff on researching stories, validating information, writing captivating articles, interviewing target audiences, and screening submitted manuscripts... Show more	$12-21
   Editorial Internship	An editorial intern is responsible for assisting the editorial team in publishing digital and media content, writing articles, and managing readers' reviews. Editorial interns must have excellent knowledge of the industry they work for, suggesting the latest trends and featured topics, taking notes of the tenured employees' advice and observations, and actively joining brainstorming sessions... Show more	$12-18

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Financial Markets
   • Photo Shoots
   • Market Appointments
   • Feature Stories
   • Petrochemicals
   • Editorials
   • Trade Shows
   • Market Research
   • Fashion Market
   • SEO
   • Bloomberg
   • RTW
   • FOB
   • Denim

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   Responsibilities:

   • Recruit to relaunch fashion editorial capturing a younger audience; promote to manage the fashion department resulting in increase reader satisfaction.
   • Leverage meticulous attention to detail in technical editing and proofreading all content from project inception to completion.
   • Assess financial performance of editorial sales and continually work to document what resonate with customers and integrate learning to improve performance.
   • Analyze FrameMaker source document and provide feedback to XML architects to improve accuracy of conversion.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your market editor job description is one of the best ways to attract top talent. A market editor can vary based on:

   • Location. For example, market editors' average salary in nebraska is 53% less than in connecticut.
   • Seniority. Entry-level market editors 64% less than senior-level market editors.
   • Certifications. A market editor with certifications usually earns a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for an established firm or a new start-up company can make a big difference in a market editor's salary.

   Average market editor salary

   $58,520yearly

   $28.13 hourly rate

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   Entry-level market editor salary

   $35,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 22, 2025

4. Writing a market editor job description

   A job description for a market editor role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a market editor job description:

   Market editor job description example

   Why Hearst Magazines?
   
   Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and Delish. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.
   
   But we're more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels-print, digital, video, and social-with sophisticated content creation, distribution, and data capabilities. We create, package, and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.
   
   Your Impact
   
   House Beautiful is seeing a creative, driven, and meticulously organized Senior Market & Partnerships Editor to join our team. This role is focused on creating engaging and compelling editorial content that 1) drives traffic to custom commerce experiences, 2) creates consumer and partner revenue, and 3) grows House Beautiful's audience by increasing brand awareness through partnerships. This position reports to the Digital Director, as most of the KPIs fall under their purview.
   
   What You'll Do:
   
   ● Ideate and Oversee a quarterly pace of awards franchises: Live Better Awards, Best Home Stores, Best Hotels, etc. Work with our accolades team to create partnerships/increase revenue
   
   ● Own HB Deals-our program which secures discount codes for consumers: Secure and manage partner deals for both All Access (our members-only program) and for general HB consumers-turn HB Deals into traffic-driving opportunities and produce site content and work with social team to amplify them
   
   ● Work with PR team to increase visibility of awards franchises and HB Deals
   
   ● Liaise with affiliate partners: onboard consistent new partners, expand diversity, oversee edit and social coverage around new partners
   
   ● Oversee weekly HB Obsessed column, where the magazine's editors spotlight their favorite new products, create a mix of advertiser placement and editor picks. Work with Director of Editorial Projects to create a balanced mix of brands
   
   ● Work with our Branded Content editors to develop HB-sold programs: Approve concepts, manage output, connect with editors/producers as needed
   
   ● Ideate and Manage Editorial Partnership projects with Director of Editorial Partnerships: coordinate with partners and oversee content (ex. Habitat for Humanity) opportunities to support franchises and packages as needed
   
   ● Work with e-commerce team to promote best practices and updates the editorial team on new partners and deals (so that they can support and promote in stories where appropriate)
   
   ●Ensure content includes key partners and 15% pledge in our shopping and product review coverage
   
   ● Represent our brand at partnership events, on panels, and during House Beautiful press opportunities to support franchises and packages as needed
   
   Who you are:
   
   ● You have at least five years experience producing editorial content for digital and print publications
   
   ● You have familiarity with analytics tools (GA, Looker)
   
   ● You have relationships with affiliate partners and are comfortable representing the brand in securing deals.
   
   ● You have strong experience in service journalism and SEO
   
   ● You're obsessively organized and can hit a deadline under pressure
   
   ● You have a passion for home decor and interior design
   
   ● You have experience mentoring younger writers in an editorial environment
   
   As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst Magazines requires that all employees who receive a written offer of employment be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Hearst Magazines will consider requests for reasonable accommodations on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

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5. Post your job

   There are a few common ways to find market editors for your business:

   • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your market editor job on Zippia to find and recruit market editor candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites such as problogger, media bistro, journalismjobs.com, content writing jobs.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Your first interview with market editor candidates should focus on their interest in the role and background experience. As the hiring process goes on, you can learn more about how they'd fit into the company culture in later rounds of interviews.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new market editor

   Once you've decided on a perfect market editor candidate, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, it should include benefits and perks available to the employee. Qualified candidates may be considered for other positions, so make sure your offer is competitive. Candidates may wish to negotiate. Once you've settled on the details, formalize your agreement with a contract.

   It's also important to follow up with applicants who do not get the job with an email letting them know that the position is filled.

   To prepare for the new market editor first day, you should share an onboarding schedule with them that covers their first period on the job. You should also quickly complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Finally, Human Resources must ensure a new employee file is created for internal record keeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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