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# Assignment Editor (Contract) at The Weather Company

- **Company:** The Weather Company
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/theweathercompany/jobs/5270424007

## Job description

About The Weather Company:

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

Job brief:

As the Assignment Editor for The Weather Company’s UK desk, your job is deceptively big: while North America sleeps, you and your team are the newsroom, driving coverage for millions of users on Weather.com and The Weather Channel app. You own what publishes during the North American overnight and early-morning window. You’ll make editorial calls and package stories so that stateside readers wake up to coverage that's timely, accurate, and unmistakably useful. It's a role built on trusted editorial judgment, tight coordination across time zones, and a clear mandate to get ahead of the U.S. morning news cycle.

The impact you'll make:

Own the overnight news agenda

- Run the overnight and early-morning news agenda for North American audiences: decide what leads, what waits, and what we skip.
- Make the editorial calls on story selection and framing, with an emphasis on what users need to know as they start their day.
- Own headlines, packaging, and placement for the overnight window, and test into what grows engagement.
- Manage a clean handoff with the US desk at both ends of the window: pick up open threads at night, hand off in-progress stories in the morning.
- Keep the site and app current and credible through breaking news, severe weather, and developing stories that break while the US is offline.
- Pick up any outstanding assignments from the U.S. news team.

Level up the product

- Be a senior editorial decision-maker on shift: you set the bar for what's ready to publish and what isn't.
- Hold the line on accuracy, quality, and voice under time pressure and with limited backup.
- Know a good story and a good headline, not just a good metric, and know when a developing story is worth waking someone up for.

Coordinate across teams

- Work in close, deliberate handoff with the US newsroom, video, and product so nothing falls through the time-zone gap.
- Set a clear, repeatable handoff rhythm: what gets logged, flagged, and escalated, and to whom.
- Represent the overnight window in planning so the desk is set up ahead of known events rather than reacting to them.

Grow the audience

- Own overnight and early-morning engagement targets and treat the window as an audience to grow, not just cover.
- Turn analytics into plain, actionable calls on timing, packaging, and story mix.
- Optimize headlines, alerts, and modules for the overnight audience and build on what works.

What you've accomplished:

- 8+ years in a newsroom, including significant time making live editorial decisions on shift.
- Strong editorial judgment. You're trusted to run a desk and make the final call without a senior editor on shift.
- Experience coordinating across desks or time zones, with a knack for clean handoffs and no dropped threads.
- Comfort with audience analytics (Chartbeat, Parse.ly, GA). You read the numbers and act on them.
- Familiarity with North American news and audiences, or a demonstrable ability to get up to speed fast.
- Self-directed and calm under pressure. You thrive with autonomy, own the room, and hold standards when news breaks and no one else is online.
- Eligible to work in the UK and able to reliably cover the US overnight / early-morning window.

## Nice to have

- Fluent with the latest engagement and distribution tools.
- Experience building and running workflows for a 24/7 or breaking-news operation.
- A track record of managing editorial talent across text and video.

## About The Weather Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Weather Company is a global leader in weather data, forecasting, and insights, providing scalable solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments through its portfolio of trusted brands and a robust API platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of IBM)
- **Headquarters**: Brookhaven, Georgia, United States (also major hubs in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY)
- **Founded**: 1982 (as The Weather Channel)
- **Founders**: John Coleman (co-founder of The Weather Channel)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Weather Data & Forecasting, Technology, Media, Advertising, Aviation
- **Target customers**: B2B (Aviation, Media, Advertising, Government/Defense) and B2C (Consumers via The Weather Channel, Weather Underground, Storm Radar)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To instill confidence, drive decisions, and propel the world by putting science and technology to work. The company aims to "drive better, faster decisions for the millions of consumers, clients, and partners who rely on us every day."

## Products & Services
- **[The Weather Channel App & Website]**: The flagship consumer brand and the most downloaded weather app, available on iOS and Android across 178 countries and 83 languages. Provides hyper-local forecasts, severe weather alerts, and lifestyle content.
- **[Weather Underground]**: A community-driven weather platform that provides hyper-local data and forecasts from a network of personal weather stations.
- **[Storm Radar]**: A dedicated severe weather tracking app providing real-time, interactive radar and storm path predictions.
- **[Weather Data API]**: A robust, enterprise-grade API platform that allows businesses to integrate weather data into their applications, business processes, or custom models. Guarantees 99.9% uptime SLA.
- **[Aviation Weather Solutions (Pilotbrief)]**: Provides preflight and in-flight weather briefings, safety tools, and performance optimization data for the aviation industry. Originally pioneered dial-up aviation weather briefings.
- **[Media Solutions]**: Provides enterprise-class production tools, visualizations, and advanced weather data to television stations and broadcasters to create personalized content and cross-platform experiences.
- **[Advertising Solutions]**: A privacy-forward, contextual advertising platform that leverages weather as a signal to deliver predictive insights and more relevant, precise campaigns for marketers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held subsidiary of IBM). Estimated annual revenue of **$133.4M**.
- **Key Metric**: **~2.2 billion** weather forecasts produced each day for **2.2 billion** locations. The Weather Channel app has **3x more cumulative downloads** than its closest competitor.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: IBM (parent company). Key partners include hundreds of global broadcasters and thousands of enterprise customers across aviation, media, and government.
- **Growth Signals**: Named the **#1 most trusted brand in the U.S.** (Morning Consult, 2025) and the **world's most accurate forecaster** (ForecastWatch, 2021-2024). The company is investing heavily in AI to power predictive insights for advertising and consumer products. Employs 523 people (-1.6% YoY).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched Accuracy & Trust**: Consistently ranked as the world's most accurate forecaster and a top 10 most trusted brand, creating a massive competitive moat in both consumer and enterprise markets.
- **Massive Data & Scale**: Processes data from billions of locations daily, with 89% of users opting in to share location data. This creates a unique, privacy-forward data asset for AI and advertising.
- **Patent Portfolio**: Holds dozens of patents for weather forecasting, data processing, and visualization technologies.
- **Deep Industry Integration**: Long-standing, mission-critical relationships in aviation (70% of air traffic delays are weather-related), media (the #1 reason people watch local news is weather), and government.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Innovation**: Leveraging AI to enhance forecast accuracy, deliver predictive advertising insights, and improve consumer experiences.
- **Expanding Enterprise Solutions**: Growing the B2B side of the business, particularly in Aviation, Media, and Advertising, by offering more integrated, data-rich solutions.
- **Consumer Engagement**: Maintaining and growing the massive consumer user base (50M+ daily users) through continuous app innovation and personalization.
- **Climate Adaptation**: Positioning the company as a critical partner for businesses and governments navigating an increasingly volatile climate.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees are driven by a purpose to help people and businesses make better decisions in the face of increasingly volatile weather. The culture is described as "curious, collaborative, and purpose-driven."
- **Strong Stability & Longevity**: Nearly half of employees have spent more than a decade at the company, indicating high retention and a stable work environment. Backed by IBM.
- **Flexibility & Perks**: Offers **partial remote work options** and a **Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy** with no limit on paid days off. Comprehensive benefits include $0 premium employee medical coverage, strong 401k match (no vesting), tuition reimbursement, and progressive family planning benefits (fertility treatments, adoption/surrogacy reimbursement, paid parental leave).
- **Cross-Functional Opportunities**: Roles span product design, technology, weather science, data & analytics, sales, marketing, and operations. Notable open roles include Senior Data Engineer, Staff Software Engineer (AI/Weather Science), and Cybersecurity Analyst.
- **Locations**: Major offices in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY.

## Sources
1. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/careers/)
2. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/)
3. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/about-us/)
4. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/leadership/)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weather-company)

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