Erik Johnson Email & Phone Number

Royal Oak, Michigan, United States

• Lead and strategize editorial content for MotorTrend's print and digital products.
• Manage assignments, travel, and workloads for a large staff of writers and editors across multiple teams and multiple locations working at varying velocities, including news, features, vehicle tests and reviews.
• Work with executive leadership, sales, user-experience, design, marketing, product, and development teams to satisfy business goals.
• Work with video and social media teams on ideation, execution, and implementation of content and strategy.
• Assist and advise on corporate editorial and business strategies.
• Analyze traffic trends and data to determine strategy, pivoting when necessary.

Royal Oak, MI

United States

• Contributed articles to publications including Autoweek, Excellence, Hagerty, and others.

Ann Arbor, MI

• Strategized and guided digital vehicle-review, in-market, feature, news, and social media content.
• Maintained content quality and usefulness and increased velocity while satisfying business goals.
• Managed assignments, travel, and workloads for approximately 20 permanent editorial staff.
• Oversaw increase in traffic to highs of approximately 3.5 million daily pageviews and 13 million monthly unique visitors.
• Managed digital assignments and workloads for a large network of freelance contributors.
• Mentored junior writers in basic structure, headlines, and mechanics, as well as more advanced storytelling techniques.