Senior Manager, Commerce Content Planning, WIRED

Condé Nast; New York (NY); On-site; USD 98,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus potential

Generous employee benefits

Job summary

Condé Nast is seeking a Senior Manager, Content Planning for WIRED in New York. You will lead the daily Reviews workflow, manage writers and producers, and translate editorial, SEO, audience, and business priorities into a clean publishing strategy.

The role requires a seasoned editor with strong monetization acumen, people management, and the ability to run a fast-paced, revenue-oriented publishing operation. You will enforce standards and oversee tentpole plans and evergreen updates.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in digital journalism.
• 3+ years of experience managing writers, editors, producers, or other editorial staff.
• Experience with high-volume commerce content: product reviews, buying guides, deals, or service journalism.
• Strong project-management and organizational skills for running a high-volume publishing operation.
• Strong understanding of CMS, SEO, analytics, and content-distribution strategy.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage WIRED Reviews writers and producers, setting expectations around assignments, output, deadlines, testing, reporting, earnings, and quality.
• Own the day-to-day Reviews editorial pipeline with visibility of assignments, due dates, edits, schedules, and earnings.
• Edit and review content to improve monetization and enforce standards for structure, sourcing, disclosure, and copy quality.
• Lead operational planning for tentpoles and major shopping events with staffing and deadlines.
• Coordinate editorial priorities across commerce, SEO, analytics, and audience development into detailed plans and schedules.
• Maintain and improve the Reviews editorial calendar, author trackers, and content-management tools including AirTable.
• Drive timely deals and commerce content aligned with product launches and seasonality.
• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality content by managing capacity, bottlenecks, and performance.
• Be liaison between editors and writers to optimize edits and content plan execution.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Project management

People management

Digital journalism

CMS workflows

Tools

AirTable

Job description

Condé Nast is one of the world's most renowned media publishing companies, creating and distributing every type of media today, spanning print and digital publishing in all formats. With a portfolio of some of today's most influential brands, the company continues to grow its audience through a global operational and content infrastructure across its 12 owned and operated markets. Headquartered in New York City, the company's owned and operated markets include China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, UAE/Dubai, the U.K., and the U.S., with additional local license partners in over twenty additional markets across the globe. Lead brands include Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, Allure, Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, House & Garden, Pitchfork, Tatler, and Vogue Business.

Job Description

Location: New York, NY

Senior Manager, Content Planning, WIRED

Senior Manager, Content Planning is a key editorial leader on the WIRED Reviews team, responsible for managing the day-to-day newsroom operation, directly managing Reviews writer and producer, and ensuring the team consistently delivers high-quality, useful, and commercially valuable journalism.

This role owns the daily editorial pipeline and the systems that keep WIRED Reviews running: assignments, deadlines, editing, publishing schedules, content updates, tentpoles, and team capacity. The Manager, Operations will work closely with Reviews editors and the Executive Commerce Director to translate editorial, audience, SEO, and business priorities into a clear and achievable strategy.

The ideal candidate is an experienced editor, newsroom senior manager, and commerce operator with excellent editorial judgment, monetization chops, people-management skills, and ability to organize a high-volume, revenue-optimized publishing operation. You’ll enforce copy and publishing standards, manage growth initiatives, implement publishing and monetization best practices, and run systems that make the Reviews desk faster, more efficient, more consistent, and more effective.

Key Responsibilities

• Directly manage WIRED Reviews writers and producers, setting clear expectations around assignments, output, deadlines, testing, reporting, earnings, and editorial quality; provide regular feedback, coaching, and career development.
• Own the day-to-day Reviews editorial pipeline, maintaining a clear view of what is assigned, due, in edit, scheduled, updating, or at risk—and what it’s earning.
• Edit and Reviews content to improve monetization as needed and enforce standards for structure, accuracy, voice, usefulness, testing methodology, sourcing, disclosure, and copy quality.
• Hold writers accountable to deadlines and production expectations—particularly around tentpoles—while identifying capacity issues, bottlenecks, or resource needs early.
• Translate priorities from commerce, SEO, analytics, editorial, audience development, and other departments into detailed editorial plans, assignments, schedules, and measurable deliverables.
• Maintain and improve the Reviews editorial calendar, assignment systems, author trackers, update queues, and other content-management tools, including AirTable.
• Coordinate the team’s evergreen update program, ensuring priority buying guides and reviews are refreshed based on seasonality, product launches, audience demand, SEO recommendations, and business opportunity.
• Drive consistent production of timely deals and other commerce content, ensuring writers are identifying opportunities within their beats and meeting agreed-upon output goals.
• Lead operational planning for major shopping and editorial tentpoles, including Amazon Prime Day(s), Black Friday/Cyber Monday, gifting holidays, CES, major product launches, and other high-priority moments. Build detailed tentpole plans covering staffing, assignments, deadlines, update schedules, content volume, handoffs, and contingency plans, and manage execution throughout the event.
• Run regular planning and production meetings and communicate editorial priorities, workflow changes, deadlines, and expectations clearly across the team.
• Manage producers to ensure quality video and photography.
• Maintain and improve editorial documentation, onboarding materials, production standards, and team workflows.
• Identify recurring operational problems and build better processes, automation, or systems to solve them.
• Be the liaison between editors and writers to ensure efficiency of edits and manage editorial assignment for content plan

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in digital journalism. A background in high-volume commerce content strongly preferred: product reviews, buying guides, deals, or other service journalism.
• 3+ years of experience managing writers, editors, producers, or other editorial staff.
• Exceptional project-management and organizational skills, with experience running a high-volume publishing operation or complex editorial calendar.
• Excellent people-management skills, including setting expectations, giving actionable feedback, coaching writers, and managing performance.
• Strong understanding of digital publishing workflows, CMS tools, SEO, audience development, analytics, and content-distribution strategy.
• Ability to translate multiple editorial and business priorities into a realistic, clearly prioritized publishing plan.
• Strong understanding of evergreen content management, content refreshes, tentpole planning, and fast-turn digital publishing.
• Sound editorial judgment and a strong commitment to WIRED’s standards, editorial independence, and reader trust.

The expected base salary range for this position is from $98,000 - $130,000. 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.