This senior editor role focuses on economics and financial services for Deloitte Insights, the company's global publishing imprint for business research. The editor collaborates with subject matter specialists, researchers, and other professionals to develop research and insights projects, ranging from reports and articles to infographics and videos. The role involves ensuring intellectual rigor, strategic storytelling, and adherence to editorial best practices for content aimed at global C-suite and board-level executives.
Responsibilities
Leverage subject matter expertise in economics and finance, business understanding, and content skills to strategize, develop, and execute research and insights stories on prioritized topics
Ensure intellectual rigor and credibility of published insights by applying curiosity and skepticism, asking tough questions about data sources, methodology, and conclusions, and maintaining precision in language
Evaluate insights projects' novelty in the generative AI era and their alignment with target audiences' informational needs and Deloitte's expertise
Serve as a storytelling strategist, advising on optimal ways to communicate insights, including determining content types and leveraging multimedia storytelling skills
Adapt to project needs, serving as ghostwriter, editor, infographic copywriter, or scriptwriter, and calibrating effort based on copy state and project realities
Respectfully and diplomatically help authors tell their stories effectively, advising on novelty, accuracy, clarity, utility, audience engagement, and adherence to editorial best practices
Act as a champion for business audiences, with a deep understanding of their content consumption behaviors, and advise authors accordingly
Steward each project through the full content development process, coordinating with authors, designers, marketing, and other internal teams
Edit copy for factual accuracy, grammar, punctuation, readability, flow, and style, and apply SEO and GEO best practices
Leverage generative AI per firm and team policies as a supplemental tool to increase efficiency, while ensuring projects are human-designed, -developed, -led, and -vetted
Coach Deloitte content creators on language usage, writing style, storytelling effectiveness, and Deloitte Insights' production processes
Lead and contribute to team-wide initiatives focused on storytelling innovation, quality control, or continuous process improvement
Guide junior editors and review their work
Requirements
Minimum 10 years of experience in writing, editing, and copyediting content in American English
Bachelor's degree (preferably in English, literature, journalism, communications, or similar)
Deep experience in and familiarity with editing economics and finance articles and research reports
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Exceptional editing and copyediting skills, and mastery of US English grammar, conversational phrasing, and Associated Press style
Ability to clearly and influentially explain edits to authors
Exceptional writing and oral communication skills; proven ability to translate complex concepts into easily digestible terms
Excellent attention to detail, laser focus on quality, and demonstrated ability to clarify a story's main message
Journalist's instinct for fact-checking and critical thinking; ability to read research with healthy skepticism, ask probing questions about data and methodology, spot logical gaps or overstatements, and ensure precision in language around statistics and research findings
Outside-in orientation, considering all content projects from the perspective of the target audience and their needs/interests
Versatile editing and writing skills, from writing engaging headlines and short-form web copy to developmentally editing long-form research reports on complex topics
Experience with creating multimedia content
Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including the confidence to interact with and influence personnel at all levels
Listening skills, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, decision-making, conflict resolution, and tact
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, content management systems, and workflow and collaboration tools such as Workfront, Microsoft Teams, etc.
Knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
Ability to manage multiple projects with quick turnaround times simultaneously
Ability to work independently, as well as with a larger, multifunctional team
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
Nice to have:
Business journalism experience
Experience working for a business news publication or in a publishing house
Experience with corporate thought leadership and global, cross-industry content
Experience working remotely with a global team
Important Details
Application deadline: 10/1/2026
Team: The DI publishing team comprises editors and copy editors, production specialists, designers, and other multimedia publishing professionals located across the US and around the world. The senior editor will report to the DI editor in chief in the United States.
About the Company
Deloitte Insights is Deloitte's global publishing imprint for business research and insights, publishing over 400 articles, reports, and multimedia projects annually. It aims to educate, inform, and inspire Deloitte clients and prospective clients on critical business issues. Each year, more than 3 million leaders, strategists, and innovators turn to Deloitte Insights for data, analysis, perspectives, and trends.
