Senior Audience Editor, New York Magazine

Job Description

The New York Magazine audience team ensures that our journalism reaches readers wherever they are-through newsletters, social platforms, our homepage, the NYMag app, and emerging spaces that deepen engagement and grow loyalty. We're looking for a Senior Audience Editor to own key editorial products and shape how our stories are delivered, promoted, and discovered across platforms.
In this role, you will oversee major newsletters, manage homepage programming, collaborate closely with editorial and consumer revenue teams on audience growth, and drive innovation across products, workflows, and platforms. The ideal candidate brings strong editing and packaging skills, sharp audience intuition, data fluency, and a willingness to experiment.
WHO WE ARE
New York Magazine obsessively chronicles the ideas, people, and cultural events that are forever reshaping our world. The New York brand includes the groundbreaking magazine New York, which is published biweekly in print, and six thriving verticals: Intelligencer, delivering national news and sharp commentary on politics, business, technology, and media; the Cut, covering the conversations that matter most to women today; Vulture, the premier destination for culture news, criticism, and service; the Strategist, dedicated to shopping the internet smartly; Curbed, covering cities and city life; and Grub Street, home to food news and authoritative restaurant criticism.
New York Magazine is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what's now, what's next, and what's possible.
As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
• Edit, produce, and manage the growth of key New York Magazine newsletters, including newsletters in our subscriber-only and pop-up programs.
• Own the growth strategy of your editorial products and other editorial moments as assigned, including writing promotional copy, creating or coordinating promotional assets, and scheduling social posts.
• Experiment with new formats and platforms like Substack or other emerging newsletter or social ecosystems to test audience growth opportunities.
• Manage the day-to-day programming of the nymag.com homepage, ensuring it reflects editorial priorities, audience insights, and timely news moments; collaborate with editors on packaging as needed.
• Write push alerts for the NYMag app and Apple News, maintaining clarity, urgency, and brand voice.
• Turn data and analytics into actionable insights that can help inform editorial and audience strategy.
• Regularly collaborate across editorial, visuals, audience, and consumer revenue teams to ensure that our work is expressed at the highest quality to the right audiences.
WHO YOU ARE
• 4–6 years of experience in audience development, editing, or digital editorial roles.
• Strong news judgment and excellent editing, writing, and packaging skills, with a sharp understanding of New York Magazine's voice and sensibility.
• Demonstrated experience managing newsletters, social accounts, or other high-visibility editorial products.
• The ability to juggle hourly deadlines with longer-term projects and initiatives.
• Familiarity with tools such as Sailthru (or other ESPs); Dash Hudson or (other social publishing tools); Figma (or other design tools); and analytics platforms like Chartbeat and Parse.ly.
• Collaborative instincts and the ability to work effectively across editorial, audience, consumer revenue, and product teams.
• Curiosity, creativity, and an enthusiasm for discovering and testing new tools, formats, and platforms.
• Curiosity, creativity, and enthusiasm for discovering and testing new tools, formats, and platforms.
• Flexibility to occasionally work nights or weekends as the news cycle demands.
If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We've hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.
WHERE YOU'LL WORK
This job is hybrid, based out of our New York, NY office.

PAY TRANSPARENCY
The salary range listed below represents the minimum and maximum base pay for this position at the time of this posting. Final salary offered to the candidate selected for the position will be based on factors including but not limited to the candidate's skills and experience.
Pay Range
$96,048 — $96,048 USD

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