English Editor, Time Out Hong Kong

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.