Job Description
America's Test Kitchen is seeking a Copy Editor to join our team, based at our Test Kitchen headquarters in Boston's Seaport District. This is a great opportunity to work with all aspects of the company, including the editorial, digital, social media, and marketing teams.
The ideal candidate has a passion for language, grammar, and copy style as well as cooking - leveraging these skills to help solidify our place as a dominant voice in the social media space.
Your Day-to-Day: - Copyedit Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines (12 issues per year) at two key junctures in the editorial process
- Review/approve proofreader marks for Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country
- Copyedit up to 12 special-interest magazines per year
- Copyedit and fact-check product and equipment reviews
- Copyedit marketing materials
- Copyedit daily web articles
- Maintain the ATK style guide and write quarterly style newsletter
What You Bring to Our Team: - Excellent copyediting and proofreading skills
- Excellent writing skills
- Fact-checking skills
- Basic understanding of K4/InCopy software or other similar desktop publishing program
- Familiarity with Google Suite and Microsoft Word
- Knowledge of food and home cooking
- Working knowledge of the Chicago Manual of Style
- Experience in editing recipes
- Attention to detail
- Ability to meet key deadlines, including flexibility during peak workload periods
- Ability to work efficiently independently and as part of a team
Education and Experience You Should Have: - BA/BS (or equivalent) in Journalism, Communications, English, or related field
- Three to four years of magazine or newspaper copy editing experience, along with some project management
- A culinary degree or professional cooking experience, while not a requirement, is a plus.
This position is located in our Boston, MA office in the Seaport district. It is the expectation that the person in this role will work a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday) in the office and 2 days per week remotely.
About America's Test Kitchen The mission of America's Test Kitchen (ATK) is to empower and inspire confidence, community, and creativity in the kitchen. Founded in 1992, the company is the leading multimedia cooking resource serving millions of fans with TV shows (America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, and America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation), magazines (Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country), cookbooks, a podcast (Proof), FAST channels, short-form video series, and the ATK All-Access subscription for digital content. Based in a state-of-the-art 15,000-square-foot test kitchen in Boston's Seaport District, ATK has earned the trust of home cooks and culinary experts alike thanks to its one-of-a-kind processes and best-in-class techniques. Fifty full-time (admittedly very meticulous) test cooks, editors, and product testers spend their days tweaking every variable to find the very best recipes, equipment, ingredients, and techniques. Learn more at
Why America's Test Kitchen: We're passionate about cooking, and about creating the best place to work. We're small enough for your ideas to make a big impact, and large enough to offer you opportunities to grow professionally at any stage of your career. We want you to take risks and make mistakes - that's how innovation happens in our test kitchen, in our offices, and in life.
We at America's Test Kitchen believe food media can be a powerful force for social change. We are passionate about building an inclusive workforce that represents many different cultures, backgrounds, abilities, identities, and perspectives.
We welcome your application.
Job Tags
Full time, Remote job, 2 days per week, 3 days per week,