Hybrid Editorial Assistant — Food & Design Publishing

Hearst Magazines; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Hearst Magazines in New York, NY seeks a Temporary Editorial Assistant to support Delish and House Beautiful. You will help manage editorial workflows, handle calendars, and assist with both digital and print projects across two iconic brands.

We value strong writers with solid editing and organizational skills who can thrive in a fast-paced environment and contribute to influencer campaigns and production tasks.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional or academic experience in journalism, editorial, project management, or equivalent experience.
• Strong writing, editing, and communication skills with an interest in digital publishing and storytelling.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and competing priorities.
• Experience using Google Workspace, including Google Sheets; familiarity with Asana or similar project management platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Editorial Director's calendar, scheduling, travel arrangements, expenses, and meeting coordination while partnering with editorial and executive assistants across the organization.
• Maintain and organize the Delish and House Beautiful editorial inboxes, routing pitches, responding to inquiries, and supporting editorial workflows.
• Support editorial operations by processing contracts and invoices, creating production documents, filing copyrights, organizing pitches, confirming shoots, conducting archive research, auditing recipe content, building presentations, and compiling team data.
• Assist with outreach and coordination for influencer campaigns, events, panels, and other cross-functional brand initiatives.
• Pitch, research, and write digital stories and social video content as assigned, with opportunities to contribute recipes and other editorial projects.
• Contribute to print production by completing the Table of Contents, distributing issues and PDFs to contributors, and assisting with other print editorial needs.
• Organize and maintain the Delish and House Beautiful archives to ensure editorial assets are accessible and well managed.
• Handle administrative and operational support, including sourcing products, running occasional errands, ordering supplies, and assisting the team with day-to-day priorities.

Skills

Writing

Editing

Communication

Project management

Google Sheets

Asana

Tools

Google Workspace

Google Sheets

Asana

Job description

Hearst Magazines in New York, NY seeks a Temporary Editorial Assistant to support Delish and House Beautiful. You will help manage editorial workflows, handle calendars, and assist with both digital and print projects across two iconic brands.

We value strong writers with solid editing and organizational skills who can thrive in a fast-paced environment and contribute to influencer campaigns and production tasks.