Executive Global Director, Editorial Operations

Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. HQ; World Trade Center (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

In-office role in NYC

Job summary

Vanity Fair, part of Condé Nast, seeks an Executive Global Director of Editorial Operations to evolve editorial efforts across print, digital, social, video and events. The role leads cross-platform planning, staffing, and rollout, coordinating with offices worldwide from New York to Madrid.

The ideal candidate is an organization and efficiency expert with strong communication skills, capable of building trust and driving strategic project delivery in an in-office NYC setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in editorial operations, production, or content strategy roles across platforms.
• Experience working globally across markets.
• Strong project-management skills and ability to ideate on solutions.
• Ability to build relationships with diverse leaders and teams.
• Proven capability to manage budgets and financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the editorial operations across Vanity Fair globally on all platforms.
• Lead planning, staffing, and execution of cross-platform content packages.
• Coordinate content lineups across global offices (NY, LA, London, Paris, Milan, Madrid).
• Ensure editorial plans align with commercial obligations and budgets.
• Represent the Global Editorial Director as needed.

Skills

Editorial operations

Global stakeholder mgmt

Project management

Communication

Matrixed environment

Budget oversight

Strategic planning

Education

10+ years editorial operations or content strategy

Job description

Vanity Fair holds a mirror to society by celebrating the best of global culture and investigating the forces that propel it. Pop culture can be profound and current affairs can be ridiculous. Our cast of characters is wide-ranging, wildly diverse, always exceptional, and quite often, with great style. In every medium, Vanity Fair harnesses the tensions of modern life.

Executive Global Director, Editorial Operations

Location: New York, NY

Job Description

Vanity Fair is seeking an Executive Global Director of Editorial Operations to help evolve the editorial efforts at one of the world's most iconic magazine brands. This role will work closely with VF’s Global Editorial Director across multiple platforms, from print and digital, to social, video, and events, including live coverage. The ideal candidate is an organization and efficiency expert with strong communication skills. This person is able to build trust and consensus, and is focused on moving projects forward strategically and with finesse, always looking around the corner and anticipating challenges and opportunities. This is an in-office role based in New York City, reporting to Vanity Fair’s Global Editorial Director.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the editorial operations across Vanity Fair globally on all platforms, executing on the vision of and in close collaboration with the Global Editorial Director.
• Act as the essential leader connecting all editorial teams, including visuals, design, research/copy, legal departments, audience, social and video.
• Implement and iterate on editorial workflows across departments, recognizing and seizing on opportunities for efficiency.
• Lead planning, staffing, and execution of all cross-platform content packages related to Vanity Fair’s own tentpoles and cultural moments (covers, Oscars Party, elections, film festivals, fashion weeks, breaking news, etc).
• Drawing on staff across departments, create and implement project management and rollout plans for special projects (New Establishment, complex digital packages), running point across departments and, when relevant, with external partners.
• Oversee content coordination and lineups across platforms, and across Vanity Fair’s global offices, including New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Milan and Madrid.
• Oversee content programming for Vanity Fair, including on homepage and in forthcoming mobile app, working closely with editorial, newsletter, social and audience teams to coordinate and optimize matrixed content rollouts.
• Represent the Global Editorial Director in situations requiring a proxy.
• Act as a liaison between the commercial and edit teams to ensure that editorial plans for and executes on commercial obligations.
• Take a lead role in helping shape, refine and implement the global editorial structure and in onboarding any senior editorial staff in all markets.
• Manage all people-related matters (HR communications, attendance, year-end reviews), working with editorial leaders and local People teams across markets.
• Represent the brand on all product, workflow, company-wide initiatives and tech roll-outs as they impact Vanity Fair globally (i.e. VF app, Content Planner, etc).
• Alongside Vanity Fair’s Business Director, have budget oversight and manage all content costs across platforms and markets; includes identifying spending priorities and cost efficiencies.
• Implementation and scrutiny of global contributor contracts.

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years in editorial operations, production, or content strategy roles across platforms
• Experience working globally across markets
• Strong project-management skills, including a willingness to ideate on such
• Ability to build strong relationships with a range of different leaders from diverse backgrounds
• Strong editorial instincts and an enthusiasm for creativity, with an ability to recognize and resolve inefficiencies
• Experience with and understanding of operating in a matrixed environment
• Possess emotional intelligence, sound judgement and ability to act with discretion at all times
• Exceptional prioritization, efficiency, and organizational skills, including the ability to wear many hats
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and diplomacy skills
• Comfortable with managing budgets and financial reporting
• Directly manage operations function, lead by example in inspiring, developing, motivating, and uniting the team across markets.
• Foster an environment of collaboration and innovation to overcome creative challenges while simultaneously meeting business objectives.
• Passion and genuine interest for the Vanity Fair brand, and its expression across platforms

Compensation & Benefits

The expected base salary range for this position is from $170,000 - $225,000.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employment

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.

For more information, please visit condenast.com and follow @CondeNast and @CondeNastCareer for Twitter and @condenastcareers for Instagram.