We are looking for an experienced Food Editor who will be part of our Global Editorial team. The Global Editorial team is responsible for the creation, curation and distribution of quality content that will attract and engage audiences across Cookpad’s global markets, and spread the Cookpad message to make everyday cooking fun. You will be a core part of the Global Editorial team, helping Community teams leverage user-generated content while providing our Product team with key insights on user interests in everyday cooking. To be successful in this role, you will need a strong track record as a food editor in East Asia and/or Southeast Asia and a deep understanding of home cooks as well as a passion in making everyday home cooking fun.
On Cookpad, all of the recipes are written by home cooks. You’ll be expected to develop unconventional editorial programs to unleash the power of the global community of our home cooks. To that end, you’ll be also working closely with our community managers and develop systems and processes that enable successful implementations of those programs.
As Cookpad is a global platform, global awareness and cultural versatility will be fundamental. Ideally, you are multilingual and have existing work experience spanning different geographies.
We’re a fast-paced, highly ambitious team, which means that we need someone who can get up to speed quickly and work well under pressure. Everyone who works at Cookpad is passionate about our mission to make everyday cooking fun and bring your passion is one of our company values -- so ideally you love food and cooking as much as we do.
This is a hands-on, full-time contract position working remotely from East Asia or Southeast Asia.
About Cookpad
Cookpad is a tech company building a community platform that enables people to share recipe ideas and cooking tips. It’s a global platform used by on average around 100 million people every month across the world. Over 4 million recipes have been created by people in almost 70 countries. How we got started.
Our mission is to make everyday cooking fun. We believe we can build a better world through encouraging even more people to cook. Everyday, home cooking has a profound impact on ourselves and the world around us: it makes us healthier and connects us with our friends and family. Through solving the problems related to everyday cooking, we help people live happier and healthier lives in an environment that is more sustainable. That’s how we want to impact the world. Take a look at this article to learn more about Cookpad and our Medium blog to see what it is like to work at Cookpad.
Cookpad is one of Japan's best known tech companies, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and was already highly successful before launching globally in 2013. With strong backing we have spent the last few years building the global platform and we are now in our commercialisation phase of the business.
Our goal is to be the number one recipe sharing platform in 100 countries by 2021. It’s an ambitious target which means we need to constantly adapt and enhance our service in response to feedback from our users.
Requirements
What we are looking for: