Smartphone & App Obsessed Contract Writer in Los Angeles, CA, USA

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If you are obsessed with the intricate details of Apple or Android smartphones, Gadget Hacks wants you to join our team.
If you research every feature of a new handset before deciding what phone to buy, and if the first thing you do with a new phone is to dig into the software and try to make it better, we want to talk to you.

Gadget Hacks is looking for phone-obsessed writers to expand our team. Our writers dedicate themselves to analyzing and improving the products people buy and use every day — smartphones. We solve pain points people are having and dig in and explain new features — in the hardware, operating system software, and apps that run our phones.

About Us
Gadget Hacks is a fast-growing smartphone how-to site offering the latest and greatest news, tips, tricks, guides, and comparisons. As a sister site to WonderHowTo, the Gadget Hacks brand has been around for years. But since 2017, we’ve been investing in evolving Gadget Hacks into a destination in its own right by growing our readership and adding new writers to our roster.

Our aim is to be the best, most thorough, and most honest smartphone guide on the market — helping people find the best phone for how they use it, and give them all the tools, news, how-tos, and fun mods and hacks to make it unique to them and get it working its best.

Gadget Hacks writers spend their days with their favorite devices: smartphones. Our readers look to us for the latest news on both Apple’s iPhone and iOS platform, and Google’s Android operating system and the latest phones from brands like Samsung, HTC, LG, OnePlus, and Motorola.

Our writers need to be able to clearly explain the difference between Lightning and USB Type-C ports to someone who has no idea. Then, dig deeper into how their audio quality differs from a traditional 3.5 mm headphone jack or a Bluetooth audio connection, and how the DAC on the phone influences output in various modes. Then put that all together into a guide telling readers how to get the best audio experience out of the phone they already have.

We’re continually looking for new ways to make phones better at doing our favorite things: Whether it’s listening to music and podcasts, watching Netflix and Hulu, or being more productive. That means we spend a lot of time testing out new apps and comparing our old favorites to see which are best and explaining why while telling our readers about the latest and greatest features and updates.

Responsibilities

  • Have your finger on the pulse of the smartphone community.
  • Research and pitch ideas, write stories promptly, enter their work into our system, and take pictures and screenshots to illustrate the story.
  • Write engaging, original tech copy that’s clear, understandable, correctly formatted, and grammatically correct.
  • You’ll need to respond to edits and make revisions promptly.

Requirements

  • Well-versed in the smartphone landscape: Knowledge of brands, operating systems, skins, apps, history.
  • Discovers bugs and pain points and solves them. You’re likely the person that people come to when they have phone problems.
  • Have a bounty of ideas that fit our unique approach, style, and audience.
  • Incredible attention to detail and top-notch writing skills, including the ability to edit your work and check your facts before submission.
  • Ability to take critical feedback and use it to improve.

Bonus Points

  • Technical background of some kind.
  • Experience rooting, jailbreaking, or modding phones.
  • Journalism degree.
  • Experience writing tech content.
  • Comfort with working from home.
  • Ability and interest in making videos for our YouTube channel.

Perks

  • Freelancer writers at Gadget Hacks set their schedules and work from home for up to 40 hours per week.
  • We use Slack and a few other programs to communicate and track pitches and drafts.
  • You get to play with smartphones all day, including potentially getting demo units or company-owned phones and attending phone release events.
  • You’ll get access to developer betas to test out new operating systems and app features before anyone else.

To Apply
Send a cover letter detailing your interest in the position and three story ideas you would like to write for our site. Make sure to review the Gadget Hacks site and search the site using Google to make sure we haven’t covered the story already. Include clear headlines and detail what the story would cover.

Are you looking to pay or is this a collaboration?
Pay to hire someone

Is this ongoing work or a one off job?
Ongoing work

How would you prefer to pay?
Day rate

What’s your day rate budget range? (USD)
$250-350 (Industry average)

Do you have an estimate of the job or project length?
A few months

Are you a company or individual hiring?
Company

Do you have internal sign off on the hire?
Yes

Do you need to hire for a specific city, country or place?
Yes, they need to be at a location (give location in job title)

When do you want to have the freelancer secured by?
2-3 weeks

What is most important for this job?
Quality

Twine can guarantee 3 relevant freelancers for an upfront fee of $650/£500. Would you like to know more?
No

How many freelancers do you want to contact you?
4-5

Do you have a job specification or creative brief?
Yes (please enter this in the description)

Does the freelancer need insurance?
Yes

Where did you find Twine?
You contacted me

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