Role Overview
Time Out Hong Kong is seeking a creative, agile, and digital-savvy English Editor / Senior Writer to shape how locals and visitors experience the city's vibrant dining, night life, arts, and lifestyle culture.
This role is ideal for a candidate with at least 3+ years of digital lifestyle writing experience looking to step up into an editor role. You will balance hands-on content creation—writing daily news, features, and social copy—with editorial coordination, sub-editing, pitching fresh story angles, and working alongside videographers and designers to bring Hong Kong’s best experiences to life across our web, eDM, and social platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Editorial Output & Content Creation
Daily Writing & Feature Storytelling: Pitch, research, and write engaging daily news, city guides, venue reviews, and long-form features covering Hong Kong’s things todo, food, drink, arts, culture, and travel scenes.
Editorial Oversight & Sub-Editing: Sub-edit, fact-check, and refine submitted articles from freelancers to ensure accuracy, clarity, brand tone, and adherence to style guidelines.
SEO & Content Optimisation: Execute content strategies guided by SEO best practices, optimising headlines, meta descriptions, and evergreen guides to drive organic search growth and site traffic.
Multi-Platform & Social Storytelling
End-to-End Social Video Production: Pitch, shoot, host/appear in, and edit your own daily mobile-first short-form video content (Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts or long-form videos) covering Hong Kong’s latest restaurant openings, events, trends, and lifestyle news.
Social Copywriting & On-Screen Scripting: Craft high-converting hooks, engaging captions, on-screen text overlays, and scripts designed to maximise watch time, shares, and audience engagement across social platforms.
Multimedia Storytelling: Seamlessly translate written editorial stories and features into engaging, multi-format social content, ensuring a continuous, daily flow of fresh video and social posts.
Newsletter Curation: Assist in compiling, writing, and curating weekly email newsletters to drive subscriber engagement and traffic retention.
Pitching & Trend Spotting
Keep a finger on the pulse of Hong Kong by tracking local culture, emerging trends, restaurant/bar openings, and community events.
Proactively pitch original story angles, multi-platform feature ideas, and social-first content concepts that capture local conversations.
Community & Relationship Building
Represent Time Out Hong Kong at media previews, venue launches, and cultural events.
Cultivate strong relationships with local PR agencies, venue owners, chefs, artists, and event organisers to secure exclusive coverage and early scoops.
Skills & Experience
Experience: Minimum 3+ years of professional lifestyle writing or editorial experience in a digital publication, media brand, or agency environment.
Writing & Editing Quality: Native English writing and editing skills with impeccable grammar, sharp headline-writing ability, and strong attention to detail.
Digital & SEO Savviness: Hands-on experience with Content Management Systems (CMS), basic SEO optimisation techniques, and web analytics tools.
Hong Kong Cultural Knowledge: Passion for and deep familiarity with Hong Kong’s food & drink, entertainment, arts, and lifestyle landscape.
Social Platform Fluency: Strong understanding of current social media trends, algorithm hooks, and digital narrative formats.
Agility & Adaptability: Ability to thrive under tight deadlines, manage multiple assignments concurrently, and pivot quickly for breaking news.
What Success Looks Like
Editorial Quality & Voice: Consistently publishing accurate, well-researched, and engaging content that reflects Time Out’s signature witty and authoritative voice.
Audience Growth: Driving site traffic, search visibility, and social media engagement through timely news coverage and updated core guides.
Efficiency & Reliability: Consistently meeting daily and weekly publishing deadlines while maintaining high sub-editing and copy standards.
Brand Representation: Actively building a strong network in Hong Kong’s lifestyle scene and representing the brand with professionalism and integrity.
Culture & Core Values
At Time Out Group, we foster a global culture that is open, inclusive, and collaborative:
Curious & Innovative: Open to new digital trends, social formats, and creative ideas with a commercial mindset.
Connect & Collaborate: Working across editorial, commercial, and creative functions to deliver compelling work.
Integrity & Respect: Upholding high journalistic standards, fact-based reporting, and cultural inclusivity.