Travel + Leisure News and Deals Editor, Commerce
Liquor.com
United States
USD 35-35 / hour
Posted on Sep 23, 2025
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Travel + Leisure News and Deals Editor, Commerce - Contract
The Commerce News and Deals team at People Inc. is seeking a sharp, detail-oriented editor to shape and edit timely travel- and lifestyle-shopping coverage (think sale roundups, celebrity-approved items, single-product reviews, first-person roundups, and customer-loved pieces). The ideal candidate is a proactive editor who loves travel and commerce storytelling, excels at fast turns, and can uphold the Travel + Leisure voice while ensuring SEO, affiliate integrity, and quality standards.
They’ll line-edit, optimize, and schedule multiple stories per week about products frequent fliers, flight attendants, and editors use, plus amazing deals they’ve found on the things our readers love most. You’ll partner closely with writers and editors across commerce and editorial, using data to strengthen headlines and surface the best products and deals for readers. The right candidates will be knowledgeable about shopping online, parsing data to make informed product and trend decisions, and search keyword-driven content.
Assignment Details:
40 hours a week
Start date: 10/1/2025
12-week contract position with the rate of $35 per hour
Location: Remote - US
Assignment Responsibilities:
- Edit 3+ pieces per day (mix of newsy commerce posts, roundups, single-product reviews), ensuring clarity, factual accuracy, brand voice, and reader usefulness.
- Own quality control: verify pricing and availability, check/insert affiliate links, ensure proper merchant naming, and fix or escalate broken links.
- Optimize for search and performance: sharpen headlines/deks, craft/refresh SEO metadata, validate keyword intent, and guide internal linking.
- Cross-team collaboration: partner with commerce editors, audience/SEO, and photo to meet shared goals; give clear, constructive feedback to writers.
- Meetings: Attend and participate in weekly team meetings.
Skills/Experience:
- A precision editor fluent in travel, fashion, beauty, wellness, and gear categories, with an ear for voice and an eye for what sells.
- Experienced with commerce content and affiliate linking.
- SEO-savvy, comfortable applying keyword insights without sacrificing voice.
- Proficient with CMS, Airtable, Ahrefs (or similar), and Google Analytics.
- Calm under pressure, decisive amid ambiguity, and proactive about solutions.
- Event-ready: available for major shopping moments (Black Friday/Cyber Monday, etc.).
- Experience: 3+ years in digital editing (commerce or service journalism preferred); writing experience a plus.
The Commerce team spirit embodies these core competencies:
- Manage Ambiguity: You can comfortably deal with change and can decide/act without the total picture. You remain calm and productive while dealing constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes.
- Nimble Learning: You’re eager to actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
- Self-Development: You want to seek new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels. You show a personal commitment to continuously improving, accepting stretch opportunities, and making the most of available development resources.
If interested, apply by emailing a resume, three writing clips, and a short cover letter detailing why you’re right for the job to Suz Brickell (susan.brickell@peopleinc.com) and Emily Belfiore (emily.belfiore@peopleinc.com).
People Inc. is the largest print and digital publisher in America. Nearly 200 million people trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. People Inc.'s over 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, Allrecipes, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living.
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