CyclingTips is hiring: Write about bikes and tech for us
CyclingTips is growing, and we need some help.
We’re looking for a passionate, talented tech writer to produce industry-leading content focused on bike equipment and technology. This includes updating our audience on the latest tech news, writing in-depth reviews of products in the road, gravel, cyclocross, and cross-country mountain bike spaces, and working across text, photo, video, and audio.
This individual will work in a full-time capacity in conjunction with our two existing Tech Editors to execute CyclingTips’ editorial vision and grow our audience.
The ideal candidate will be able to take the spark of an idea and turn it into a polished story, podcast, and/or video ready for CyclingTips.com.
Key responsibilities include:
- Producing engaging tech content on a variety of topics
- Writing daily tech news stories
- Helping produce videos and podcasts
Necessary:
- Exceptional writing skills. In particular, the ability to explain complicated subject matter simply and clearly
- Excellent communication – our team is spread across the world
- Deep contextual knowledge of bikes and cycling gear and ability to evaluate equipment on its merits
- Proficiency in still photography
- Willingness to travel, both domestically and internationally
- Ability to produce clean, accurate, grammatically correct copy on a tight deadline
- A world-class bullshit detector
- Passion for the technical side of cycling
- An unflappable sense of personal integrity and professional ethics
- A reasonably flexible schedule that will occasionally require working evenings and weekends
Desirable:
- Comfortable on-camera and behind a microphone
- Background working somewhere in the industry, particularly in bike shops
- Comfortable building and maintaining bikes
- Experience in writing for the web, including the use of a CMS
- Experience using various Adobe products, including Photoshop, Audition, and Lightroom
- Can change a flat in under a minute and knows a PF30 from a BB30
- Willingness to relocate to Boulder, Colorado or the surrounding area
To apply:
Send a CV and cover letter to tech@cyclingtips.com.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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