Deputy Editor, AD

Advance Magazine Publishers Inc.; World Trade Center (NY); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Condé Nast’s Architectural Digest seeks a Deputy Editor to shape the brand’s editorial future across print, digital, and new platforms. Reporting to the Global Editorial Director, you will guide priorities, mentor editors, and lead AD PRO with a focus on strong journalism and storytelling across markets.

You will collaborate with audience, digital, video, and revenue teams to drive growth while maintaining editorial independence and high standards across all franchises.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of editorial leadership experience.
• Exceptional editorial judgment and creative instincts.
• Demonstrated success developing ambitious editorial across multiple platforms.
• Outstanding editing and writing skills.
• Deep understanding of digital publishing, print, social, newsletters, video, commerce, and audience development.
• Strong collaborative leadership skills and the ability to lead and influence across teams, including those outside direct reporting lines.

Responsibilities

• Shape editorial strategy with the Global Editorial Director, setting priorities and themes.
• Lead development of signature editorial initiatives and recurring franchises.
• Identify opportunities for editorial innovation and new storytelling formats.
• Maintain a consistently ambitious, distinctive editorial point of view.
• Drive audience growth across platforms, maximizing reach and impact.
• Collaborate with audience, digital, video, social, and other leads using analytics to guide strategy.
• Develop initiatives to grow subscriptions, video views, newsletters, and engagement.
• Mentor editors and writers, elevating talent and editorial judgment.
• Conceive, assign, edit, and write high-impact projects for print and digital.
• Support revenue growth by exploring editorial opportunities around franchises, events, partnerships, and commerce.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Editorial judgment

Cross-platform storytelling

Editing and writing

Digital publishing

Leadership across teams

Job description

AD is the international authority on design and architecture. AD provides exclusive access to the world’s most beautiful homes and the fascinating people who live in them, bringing its audience a wealth of information on architecture and interior design, art and antiques, travel destinations, and extraordinary products; its AD100 list of top architects and designers is one of the industry’s most relied-upon indexes of talent. Every day AD inspires millions of affluent readers to redesign and refresh their lives through a multiplatform presence that includes print and digital editions, social media, signature events, and the brand’s website, archdigest.com.

Job Description Location: New York, NY Deputy Editor, AD Overview Architectural Digest is seeking a Deputy Editor to help shape and execute the editorial future of the brand across every platform. Reporting to the Global Editorial Director, this senior editorial leader will identify, develop, and champion the ambitious ideas and signature franchises that define AD, ensuring the brand's strongest journalism, talent, and storytelling extend across the print and digital newsroom, including AD PRO, newsletters, social, video, commerce, and emerging platforms. The Deputy Editor will translate the Global Editorial Director’s vision into clear editorial priorities, raise the caliber and ambition of work across the organization, and serve as a senior mentor to editors and writers. The role has particular management responsibility for AD PRO, developing its team and ensuring consistently strong editorial execution.

Responsibilities

• Shape editorial strategy: Work with the Global Editorial Director to set and execute the editorial priorities, stories, themes, and cultural conversations that define AD.
• Conceive and lead development of signature editorial initiatives, packages, and recurring franchises that can extend across the print and digital newsroom, video, and social.
• Identify opportunities for editorial innovation, new storytelling formats, and audience experiences that strengthen the brand’s authority and relevance.
• Ensure a consistently ambitious, distinctive, and high-quality editorial point of view across the brand.
• Drive audience growth: Lead major editorial ideas from development through execution across platforms, maximizing their reach, relevance, and impact.
• Partner with audience, digital, video, social, and other leads to use performance insights and analytics to inform editorial strategy and maximize the reach and impact of AD’s journalism.
• Develop editorial initiatives that contribute to audience growth, including engagement, subscriptions, video views, newsletter growth, and other key performance metrics.
• Build relationships with AD’s international editorial teams, sharing ideas, talent, franchises, and opportunities across markets where relevant.
• Lead, develop, and elevate editorial talent: Serve as a senior editorial leader across the organization, providing direction, feedback, coaching, and mentorship while encouraging ambitious thinking, strong editorial judgment, collaboration, and accountability.
• Conceive, assign, edit, and write high-impact editorial projects while helping editors and writers develop their strongest work.
• Support revenue growth: Work closely with business and revenue leaders to identify editorially appropriate opportunities around major franchises, events, partnerships, memberships, commerce, and other initiatives that can drive audience and revenue growth.
• Protect AD’s editorial independence and standards, ensuring that commercial opportunities support the brand’s editorial authority, credibility, and point of view.
• Represent AD externally through speaking engagements, industry events, partnerships, and other brand opportunities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of editorial leadership experience.
• Exceptional editorial judgment and creative instincts.
• Demonstrated success developing ambitious editorial across multiple platforms.
• Outstanding editing and writing skills.
• Deep understanding of digital publishing, print, social, newsletters, video, commerce, and audience development.
• Strong collaborative leadership skills and the ability to lead and influence across teams, including those outside direct reporting lines.

The expected base salary range for this position is from $111,000 - $200,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates may also be eligible to receive discretionary bonus compensation.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.

Condé Nast is a global media company home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker, Glamour, Allure, Bon Appétit and many more. Headquartered in New York and London, the company produces award-winning journalism, content and entertainment for every platform today and operates in 32 markets worldwide including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the U.K. and U.S., and Taiwan.

At Condé Nast we value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, their skills and contributions. And we recognize the power our brands have to influence and shape culture, catalyze action and help make our world a better place for all.