Editorial Director

Job Description

The Editorial Director is responsible for researching, initiating, planning, sourcing, and reviewing content within KSA. Working closely with the KSA General Manager and the VP, Content, this role will assist with building strong relationships with content creators within KSA as well as building a strong editorial team of full time employees and freelancers to lead on content creation, with a focus on achieving target KPIs, growing audience, and fulfilling stakeholder expectations in KSA and insuring that content is aligned with the stakeholders strategies and objectives. The Editorial Director will also work closely with domestic and international creative teams to align content with the JAX Media brand and to help craft original content and fruitful partnerships, and will take an active role in managing all content partners and individual talents insuring that they deliver against the planned content calendar, as well as auditing and insuring that the content abides by the cultural considerations by following the stakeholders guidelines and requests.

JAX Media is a joint venture between VICE and MBC Group. JAX Media's primary directive is to create a leading platform for quality digital Arabic content centered on modern Arab youth culture anchored in Saudi Arabia. The expectation for this role, as with others associated with JAX Media, is that it will focus on VICE's delivery of the JAX Media proposition, but also serve and support VICE's growing presence in KSA more broadly.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Oversee and facilitate JAX Media content strategy and implementation in KSA
• Serve as a point of contact for local content creators, key talent, and project stakeholders in aid of successful content delivery
• Support the content team on an editorial and a creative level with a focus on maximising audience impact
• Support with market-specific insight, landscape assessment, and strategy to insure that content follows JAX Media brand strategy
• Maintain strong knowledge of and relationships with the editorial outlets, production houses, individual talents, and media industry
• Support the recruitment of talent and identification of potential content partners
• Take responsibility for successful delivery of content plans and performance against targets and KPIs set by the General Manager and Managing Director
• Ensure that JAX Media content deliver to the highest standards of editorial creativity, quality, and integrity
• Serve as a liaison and ambassador for JAX Media and VICE Media in KSA

QUALIFICATIONS
• Fluent in Arabic
• Proven experience creating and delivering quality content in KSA
• 5+ years of relevant editorial and media work experience
• Strong knowledge of KSA and GCC cultural landscape
• Experience navigating cultural and governmental considerations in KSA

LOCATION

Riyadh, KSA

ABOUT VICE MEDIA GROUP

VICE is the world's preeminent youth media company and content creation studio. Launched in 1994, VICE now operates in over 30 countries and distributes its programming to hundreds of millions of viewers each month across digital, linear, mobile, film and socials.

VICE includes an international network of digital channels; a television and feature film production studio; a magazine; a record label; an in-house creative services agency; a book-publishing division; and an international TV network

VICE Arabia is one of the newest and fastest growing regions of VICE with headquarters in Riyadh as well as offices and operations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Candidates, please note that if you are contacted by anyone with an email other than @vice.com purporting to be recruiting on behalf of Vice Media, it is not legitimate, and you should not engage.

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