Associate Digital Editor, GQ

Condé Nast India; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

GQ Middle East is seeking an Associate Digital & Social Editor to shape our editorial presence across digital platforms and social media, maintaining GQ’s distinctive voice. You will work with editors and cross-functional teams to deliver timely, engaging, and platform-native content across fashion, culture, and lifestyle.

The role emphasizes an editorial-first mindset, strong judgment, and the ability to craft content that performs on digital and social platforms in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years’ experience in digital editorial, publishing, journalism, or magazine media.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills in English.
• Strong understanding of social media platforms, digital publishing, and audience engagement.
• Experience with CMS platforms and SEO best practices.
• Strong news judgment and ability to work quickly under tight deadlines.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Pitch, commission, write, edit, and publish daily digital stories across fashion, culture, entertainment, and lifestyle.
• Identify breaking news, cultural moments, and trending conversations.
• Develop digital-first concepts that extend beyond the print magazine.
• Collaborate with Social Media to tailor content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn.
• Adapt stories into short-form videos, carousels, explainers, and social-first formats.
• Work with designers, photographers, videographers, and producers to deliver visuals.
• Optimise content for SEO and audience discoverability.
• Monitor analytics to inform editorial decisions and planning.
• Maintain high editorial standards, tone, and brand consistency.

Skills

Editorial experience

Writing & editing

Social media strategy

CMS proficiency

SEO knowledge

Analytics tools

Team collaboration

Deadline-driven

Fashion/culture/luxury

Tools

CMS platforms

SEO tools

Job description

GQ Middle East is seeking an Associate Digital & Social Editor to help shape our editorial presence across digital platforms and social media. This role sits at the intersection of journalism, culture, audience engagement, and platform strategy, ensuring that our stories are conceived, produced, and distributed with a digital-first mindset while maintaining GQ’s editorial standards and distinctive voice.

The successful candidate will be an editor first and foremost—someone with strong editorial judgment, an instinct for compelling storytelling, and a deep understanding of how content performs across digital and social platforms.

Reporting directly to the Head of Editorial Content, the Associate Digital & Social Editor will work closely with the Digital Editor and wider editorial, creative, video, fashion, commercial, and social teams to deliver timely, engaging, and platform-native content.

Key Responsibilities

• Pitch, commission, write, edit, and publish daily digital stories across fashion, culture, entertainment, grooming, lifestyle, design, sport, and current affairs.
• Identify breaking news, cultural moments, and trending conversations relevant to the GQ audience.
• Develop digital-first editorial concepts that extend beyond the print magazine.
• Collaborate with the Social Media team to create content specifically designed for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms.
• Adapt editorial stories into platform-specific formats, including short-form video concepts, carousels, explainers, and social-first storytelling.
• Work with designers, photographers, videographers, and producers to deliver visually compelling content.
• Optimise content for SEO, search trends, and audience discoverability.
• Monitor analytics and audience behaviour to help inform editorial decisions and content planning.
• Maintain high editorial standards, ensuring accuracy, tone of voice, and brand consistency across all published content.
• Assist in planning editorial calendars around key cultural moments, cover launches, tentpole franchises, and commercial opportunities.
• Support live coverage of events, fashion weeks, launches, and special projects when required.
• Work cross-functionally with commercial teams to execute branded editorial content while protecting editorial integrity.

Skills & Experience

• 3–5 years’ experience in digital editorial, publishing, journalism, or magazine media.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills in English.
• Strong understanding of social media platforms, digital publishing, and audience engagement.
• Experience with CMS platforms and SEO best practices.
• Strong news judgment and an ability to work quickly under tight deadlines.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills.
• Familiarity with analytics platforms such as Google Analytics and social insights tools is an advantage.
• A passion for fashion, culture, design, entertainment, and luxury lifestyle.
• Ability to collaborate across editorial, creative, video, commercial, and social teams.