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# Engagement Editor (Contract) at The Weather Company

- **Company:** The Weather Company
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/theweathercompany/jobs/5270540007

## 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).

AI is part of how we work:

Human judgment, expertise, and creativity remain essential and are amplified by AI. We expect everyone in this role to use AI thoughtfully and proactively to accelerate their performance, improve the quality of their work, and explore new possibilities. We are looking for people who are curious, adaptable, and excited to help shape an AI-enabled culture that delivers better outcomes for our customers and our company.

Job brief:

As an Engagement Editor, you sit at the center of how our programming team plans, produces, and promotes content for millions of daily users. This is a technical role as much as an editorial one: you'll work hands-on with AI tools and algorithmic curation every day, and you're equally comfortable with editorial judgment and technical execution. You know how to get the right content to the right people at the right time. You'll help carry our vision for content curation and promotion into day-to-day decisions, bringing technical curation knowledge into the team's work along the way. This role is based in New York or Atlanta, with three days a week in office, and reports to the Director, Programming.

The impact you'll make:

- Push alerts: Write and send breaking-news and editorial push notifications to standard: right story, right moment, right audience, without over-firing
- App banners: Build, schedule, and update in-app banners and promo slots
- Homepage: Curate and merchandise the homepage and key landing surfaces, keeping placement fresh as stories develop
- Modules & curation surfaces — manage on-site and in-app content modules
- Design and execute compelling content experiences by leveraging strategic messaging, cohesive module branding, and data-driven timing.
- Provide data-based feedback to the newsroom about what’s trending and how to shift coverage.
- Test and adjust headlines, packaging, and placement to grow engagement.

Help drive our content agenda

- Bring strong news judgment and a clear sense of what audiences want and need, helping inform what the content team covers and how it's framed.
- Use data, alongside AI-backed algorithmic curation tools, to drive planning and programming decisions, balancing what the numbers say with what the audience needs.
- Help keep a forward-looking content calendar that gets the team ahead of known events.
- Build and apply deep fluency with AI tools to speed up planning and programming, without cutting corners on accuracy or quality.
- Know a good story and a good headline, not just a good metric — and help flag when a story deserves a bigger push.
- Help translate a strategic vision for the team's content into the day-to-day calls that put the right content in front of the right people at the right time, using algorithmic and AI-powered tools to get there.

Raise the bar on production

- Set and hold a high bar for editorial quality — accuracy, voice, and craft — across everything that the programming team manages.
- Bring working knowledge of display copy, SEO/AEO, visual storytelling, and video to how content gets built and packaged, and use AI tools to make that work faster without lowering the bar.
- Flag quality issues early and push back when something isn't ready, even under time pressure.

Partner across the content team

- Coordinate closely with the content team so programming decisions reflect what's actually being produced, not just what the data shows.
- Bring the confidence to set tone and push back — on story selection, framing, or promotion calls — when your judgment says otherwise.
- Translate between editorial and technical priorities, and bring technical curation knowledge into the team's day-to-day work.

Grow engagement and reach

- Own homepage and push curation on your shifts, with working fluency in the algorithms and mechanics that drive visibility.
- Turn feedback data into clear, actionable calls on timing, packaging, and placement.
- Optimize headlines, alerts, and modules for engagement, and build on what works.

What you've accomplished:

- Strong news judgment and a proven ability to make editorial calls about what matters most to the audience, and how to get it to them at the right time.
- Real, hands-on experience with algorithmically curated landing experiences — comfortable with the mechanics that drive visibility and engagement, not just the concepts.
- Working familiarity with display copy, SEO/AEO, visual storytelling, and video production.
- Proven editorial decision-making with a high quality bar: a stickler for accuracy, voice, and craft.
- Track record of making data-backed decisions — comfortable reading analytics and turning them into action.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools to make editorial work faster or better without lowering standards.
- Curious with a growth mindset: eager to learn new tools and workflows, open to feedback, and willing to push back when existing systems aren't efficient.

## 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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