Executive Editor, House Beautiful

Job Description

Temporary Executive Editor, House Beautiful

Your impact:

House Beautiful is looking for a temporary Executive Editor to lead content strategy and editorial direction for House Beautiful across platforms, including HouseBeautiful.com, House Beautiful Magazine, video channels, and all social handles, in coordination with Editorial Director. Position is 4 days a week for 6 months covering a maternity leave.

Please note that for consideration, resumes must be submitted in .pdf format with a cover letter, salary requirements, and a link to a portfolio of work. This job is based in our New York City offices.

What you'll do:
• Lead content strategy and editorial direction for House Beautiful across platforms, including HouseBeautiful.com, House Beautiful Magazine, video channels, and all social handles, in coordination with Editorial Director
• Develop and manage digital strategy that includes e-commerce, SEO, news, social media, and video to yield audience and revenue growth
• Support team of editors and department leads in create high-value (and high quality) content
• Partner with sales and marketing teams on advertising opportunities, especially digital/social, and native content
• Partner with creative teams (art, photo, social, video) to package and optimize digital content to make it both successful and fun to read
• Advise on direction and rollout of larger cross-platform initiatives (Whole Home, Live Better, Creator Class, etc.)
• Work with DME to create effective and flexible systems that support editors balancing workloads and hitting deadlines
• Oversee audience growth by working with Social Media team on platform strategies, and help direct and inform video development in coordination with Video Producer and Video Editor

Who you are:
• You have a bachelor's degree and 6-8 years of experience at a media outlet, magazine preferred
• Held a senior editorial position for at least two years
• Strong editing skills and experience managing freelancers
• Able to understand analytics and translate them into editorial action; familiarity with Parse.ly, Looker, Skimlinks, or similar reporting tools is a plus
• Able to juggle multiple projects simultaneously and comfortable working independently
• Experience managing both print and digital teams and freelancers

The base rate for this role is $75 an hour for 4 days a week. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb2qwy-18-191-135-224-42 in your application.