Senior Editor, Economics & Financial Services Creative, Content, and Design | Content Strategy and Editorial

A senior editor for economics and financial services at Deloitte Insights collaborates with subject matter specialists, researchers, data science and visualization teams, designers, video strategists, and production professionals to develop research and insights projects across formats, including reports, articles, infographics, and videos.

Responsibilities

• Leverage subject matter expertise in economics and finance, combined with business understanding and content skills, to strategize, develop, and execute research and insights stories on prioritized topics with Deloitte business leaders, thought leaders, economists, financial services researchers, and publishing and marketing colleagues.

• Ensure intellectual rigor and credibility of published insights by applying journalist-level curiosity and skepticism about data sources, methodology, and conclusions; maintain precision in language around claims and statistics; collaborate with economists, researchers, and subject matter experts to strengthen the work before publication.

• Evaluate insights projects for novelty in the generative AI era and alignment with target audiences’ informational needs and Deloitte’s priorities to identify opportunities where Deloitte can offer unique value.

• Serve as a storytelling strategist, advising on optimal communication approaches for insights, including selecting appropriate content types and leveraging multimedia storytelling to develop copy for reports, articles, infographics, videos, dashboards, and more.

• Adapt to project needs, acting as ghostwriter, editor, infographic copywriter, scriptwriter, or other roles to tell the story effectively; calibrate editing effort based on the project state, sometimes performing deep developmental edits and other times providing light polish.

• Help authors tell their stories respectfully and effectively, guiding messaging objectives, target audiences, and personal voices while ensuring novelty, accuracy, clarity, utility, and engagement, and upholding editorial best practices; excel at improving others’ work without overtly imprinting the editor’s own voice.

• Advocate for business audiences, with a deep understanding of content consumption behaviors, and advise authors accordingly.

• Steward projects through the full content development process, coordinating with authors, designers, marketing, and other teams to ensure objectives are met, expectations are clear, and timelines are realistic.

• Edit copy for factual accuracy, grammar, punctuation, readability, flow, and style; apply SEO and GEO best practices.

• Use generative AI in line with firm and team policies and standards as a supplementary tool to increase efficiency, while ensuring all projects remain thoroughly human-designed, -developed, -led, and -vetted.

• Coach Deloitte content creators on language usage, writing style, storytelling effectiveness, and production processes at Deloitte Insights.

• Lead and contribute to team-wide initiatives focused on storytelling innovation, quality control, or continuous process improvement.

• Guide junior editors and review their work.

• Team and Reporting

• The Deloitte Insights publishing team includes editors, copy editors, production specialists, designers, and other multimedia publishing professionals located across the US and globally. The senior editor reports to the DI editor in chief in the United States.

• The Team and Mission

• Deloitte Insights is a global business insights resource that supports executives with data, analysis, perspectives, and trends. Our team applies expertise in storytelling, content development, data visualization, design, and digital publishing to deliver accurate, credible, innovative, and actionable insights for leadership to understand the current state and plan for the future.

Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in writing, editing, and copyediting content in American English; business journalism experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in English, literature, journalism, communications, or similar).
• Deep experience editing economics and finance articles and research reports.
• Exceptional editing and copyediting skills, mastery of US English grammar, conversational phrasing, and Associated Press style; ability to explain edits clearly to authors.
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills; proven ability to translate complex concepts into easily digestible terms.
• Superior attention to detail, quality focus, and ability to clarify a story’s main message.
• Journalist’s instinct for fact-checking and critical thinking; ability to evaluate data and methodology with healthy skepticism, identify gaps, and ensure precision in statistics and findings.
• Outside-in orientation, considering content from the target audience’s perspective.
• Versatile editing and writing skills, from headlines and short-form copy to developmentally editing long-form research reports on complex topics.
• Experience creating multimedia content.
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence colleagues at all levels, plus listening, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, decision-making, conflict resolution, and tact.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, content management systems, and collaboration tools such as Workfront and Microsoft Teams; knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with quick turnaround times; work independently and within a multidisciplinary team.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. Preferred:
• Experience at a business news publication or publishing house.
• Experience with corporate thought leadership and global, cross-industry content.
• Experience working remotely with a global team.