LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world’s workforce in ways no other company can. The thriving, global, professional community on LinkedIn means we can transform lives through innovative products and technology.

This role will be based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or employees can work remotely within The Netherlands. 

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid and remote work options, meaning you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or this role can be performed remotely in most locations in the country of employment.

LinkedIn News is looking for a News Editor to support the Dutch News team and help expand our Dutch coverage on current news and career topics in DACH. In this role, you will identify the most important news topics of the day, write short texts and create and curate discussions on current debates, newsletters, and other multi-media formats, and send notifications to increase engagement. The role involves discovering and summarizing a mix of breaking news and trends while curating the right creator voices for each story. The best candidate lives and breathes professional news and has a passion for following and spotting the kind of topics that are igniting professional conversations.

You’ll get to work with a dynamic team of excellent journalists who reach the largest group of professionals ever assembled. We’re looking for someone who’s a self-starter and wants to use journalism skills in new and innovative ways. The ideal candidate is a strong and accurate news writer, deadline-driven, creative, comfortable working with a variety of media formats, and able to adapt to a role where responsibilities are constantly changing.

While this position is based in the Netherlands, you’ll be joining an international team of journalists who help create, cultivate and curate the content that flows through LinkedIn. You’ll work closely with global editors across time zones and cultures, ultimately helping members around the world discover new opportunities to grow their careers.

Responsibilities:

• Report on daily news with a business/economics/politics focus, write posts and build discussions, curating the best of members’ content

• Writing strong and concise news roundups and headlines for LinkedIn's news products, such as the Daily Rundown

• Proofreading editorial copy to check spelling and grammar

• Coverage includes daily news with a special focus on jobs & career content

• Collaborating with editors around the world on coordinated global projects & data-driven special reports, such as LinkedIn Top Voices, Top Startups, Top Companies

• Keeping up-to-date with breaking and trending news, while monitoring the impact of your own work

• Develop innovative and creative ways to serve our members with the content they need to land the right job and develop their careers (Video, Audio, Live, Newsletter, Editorial Notifications). 

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience in Journalism

• Journalistic education, traineeship or similar qualification 

• Business fluency in Dutch and English in both written and verbal 

• Background in project-management and self-organization, entrepreneurial mindset 

• Experience in working with different media formats (i.e. social media/video and/or podcasts)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Dutch business news cycles

• Journalistic expertise in job & career content would be a plus

• Experience in Journalism, preferably in a newsroom/newsdesk setting

• Active social media presence 

• Thrives in a place where things are ever-evolving

• Experience working in a news or fast-paced media environment 

• Deadline-driven

• Familiarity with LinkedIn news products and services.

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At LinkedIn, we want to “leave people better than we found them”. The company will invest in yourself as a Talent and as a person. You will have multiple occasions to express yourself outside of your core role, such as:

• InDays: one day a month, LinkedIn gives you time to focus on ourselves, the company, and the world. InDay is the common thread linking our global culture, bringing together communities from around the world for a common purpose: to invest, inspire and innovate.

• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): voluntary, employee-led groups sponsored by LinkedIn. ERGs work directly with the Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIBs) Team to focus on our three organizational pillars: Hire & Grow, Invest and Culture.
   

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Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.