Assistant News Editor (Canada) at Datassential
Canada
CAD 55k - CAD 60k
<p dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong>Who We Are:</strong></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(29, 28, 29)">Datassential is a leading global intelligence platform for the food and beverage industry. Leveraging billions of data points and cutting-edge AI, we provide a suite of innovative solutions that empower more than 90% of the world’s largest food and beverage brands to develop, market, and sell their products more effectively.</span></p><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(29, 28, 29)">Based in Chicago, USA, Datassential has expanded its global reach through strategic acquisitions of CHD Expert (France) in 2022 and Brizo Data, Inc. (Canada) in 2025. In 2024, we secured investment from top-tier private equity firms New Mountain Capital and Endicott Capital—a milestone that fuels our accelerated product roadmap and strengthens our research and development, enabling us to deliver even greater value to our clients.</span></p><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(29, 28, 29)">Our remote-first, globally distributed team thrives on diverse perspectives and deep expertise in the food and beverage space. Food brings people together—and at Datassential’s table, there’s room for everyone.</span></p><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong>What We Need:</strong></span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">The Assistant News Editor will play a key role in driving Datassential’s nascent News content offering forward by helping to produce and refine unique news and insights that help from Datassential’s product suite, leveraging our existing research as well as proprietary analytics to publish compelling news articles that cut through the noise and add value for a variety of customer types in the food and beverage information ecosystem.</span></p><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong>What You Will Do:</strong></span></p><ul dir="auto"><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Work closely with Datassential’s News Editorial Team to produce clean and succinct news articles that meet the needs of various client personas on a daily basis. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Generate story ideas, draft copy and edit copy produced by others. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Identify and leverage opportunities to mine compelling insights from Datassential’s unique, proprietary research and analytics tools.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Collaborate closely and productively with Datassential’s Publications/Content Team, as well as other internal groups.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Develop subject matter expertise in the food and beverage industry and real-time awareness of industry news topics.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Assist in leveraging automation to streamline editorial workflows.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong>What You Bring:</strong></span></p><ul dir="auto"><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Have 1-2 years of news writing or editing experience, preferably in a real-time, business-to-business, and/or industry-focused publishing environment.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Have a demonstrated ability to produce and refine data-driven storytelling.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Show a demonstrated track record of developing subject-matter expertise in new areas rapidly.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Be comfortable collaborating in a cross-functional manner in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Have experience in supporting a growing editorial effort with scalable processes and editorial infrastructure.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Have experience or interest in leveraging automation technologies (NLG, NLP, LLMs, etc) to drive efficiency and create value in editorial processes.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong>Compensation & Eligibility:</strong></span></p><p dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">This role is open to candidates currently residing in and authorized to work in Canada. This is a posting for an existing vacancy. Salary base range for this role will be </span>$55,000-$60,000 annually. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Candidates located in Canada will receive a separate benefits overview tailored to their location. Datassential is an equal opportunity employer. We do not require "Canadian experience" for any role.</span></p><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><strong>Our Table Welcomes All.</strong> We embrace diversity of both background and thought and foster an inclusive environment that extends an open landscape of opportunities to everyone. We invite each of us to simply be ourselves. We operate with respect and without judgment, celebrating both the power of the individual as well as our shared humanity.</span></p><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please contact careers@datassential.com.</span></p><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Datassential is an E-Verify employer.</span></p>
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