Testing Logistics Assistant, NYT Wirecutter

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Job Description

About the Role

Wirecutter is seeking an organized and process-oriented testing logistics assistant to support our newsroom-wide testing efforts at our office in Long Island City. Testing Logistics is the behind-the-scenes team that makes our rigorous product testing possible, and our journalists’ work more efficient.  

You will contribute directly to our testing by ensuring products are catalogued and available when needed. You’ll also support setting up and breaking down testing setups, and coordinating with our writers and editors on daily logistics. 

You will report to our testing logistics manager and join a small but mighty team responsible for ensuring the testing that’s so core to our journalism is seamless. This is an in-person role based in Wirecutter's Long Island City office. 

Responsibilities:

• Order products and supplies for onsite and remote testing

• Track product shipments from order to delivery

• Receive, open, catalogue, and distribute incoming products at our LIC office

• Support remote teams with tracking shipments and logging products into our inventory database

• Maintain our inventory tracking system, ensuring our writers always know how to find a product

• Collaborate with journalists, editors, photographers, and other teams to package and ship products 

• Support testing set up and break down, ensuring all necessary supplies are available

• Coordinate product transfers between our LIC office and external storage facilities, and/ or donation sites 

• Support inventory audits and database reconciliation

• Perform related work as assigned

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 1+ years of professional or academic experience in product testing, inventory management, or project management-based role

• 1+ years of experience working simultaneously with in-person and remote teams

• Ability to lift and carry, or otherwise move heavy items

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience working with Google Workspace. Familiarity with Airtable, Slack, Zapier, Confluence, Miro

The annual base pay range for this role is between $60,000.00 and $70,000.00.

Locations

Even with our office in New York City, Wirecutter remains a highly remote-friendly culture and is proud to employ incredible people across the country. Right now, we are eligible to hire in the following states: CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, ME, MA, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA.

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

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The Company will further consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable "Fair Chance" laws.

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