Social Editor, New York Magazine

We are seeking a Social Editor to help manage a suite of New York Magazine’s social accounts. You should have a strong grasp of the social landscape, its various platforms and audiences, and constantly evolving trends.

The Editorial team is at the core of everything New York Magazine does. Our six verticals and award-winning magazine strike the perfect balance of content that’s smart and funny so that our readers know everything they need to navigate urban life and the fast-moving culture, whether that’s politics, culture, food, shopping, or style trends. Editors aim to create stories and magazine events that are sharp, provocative, memorable, useful, and, at turns, both playful and serious.

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.

• Manage a suite of off-platform accounts. You’ll be responsible for their engagement, growth, and voice. You must have strong news judgment, sharp editorial sensibility, and a sense of humor.
• Manually curate and frame stories for various platforms and audiences on a daily basis. Package and translate our journalism to feel native to the platforms on which they are published and without sacrificing editorial voice and integrity.
• Participate in off-platform conversations in service of making our accounts feel relevant and timely. 
• Work under direction of Editorial Director of Audience to refine strategy across accounts and closely monitor performance and identify new potential audiences we should reach.
• Pitch and execute quick turnaround platform-first ideas and franchises as bandwidth allows.
• Experiment with, and craft best practices for, new and emerging digital spaces as assigned.
• ​​Collaborate with a team of audience editors to coordinate on posting strategy and framing for different audiences and accounts.
• Assist in programming of the New York Magazine app.
• Assist in establishing team workflows, platform setup, maintaining a news calendar, coverage of off-platform accounts, newsletter production, community management, homepage programming, and other coverage or responsibilities as needed.
• Collaborate and deliver on regular reporting and insights that can help inform assigning, packaging, and larger audience strategy.
• Be flexible to the demands of a newsroom schedule. This role will require working some nights and/or weekends, in response to the news cycle.

• Strong writing and editing skills, impeccable attention to detail, and an intolerance for errors
• Prior experience growing an audience
• Strong editorial and news judgment
• A sharp sense of humor
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite and Figma
• Strong understanding of analytics and social media trends across platforms
• 2-3 years of experience

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.

This job is hybrid, and is expected to come into the office in New York, NY. 

This is a permanent, full-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.

This position is covered by the collective bargaining agreement between the Company and The NewsGuild of New York, CWA Local 31003, AFL-CIO.

Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices. We keep our diversity data public for the sake of accountability, transparency and communication. Learn more about our values here, and our approach to corporate citizenship here. 

Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our People & Culture team ([email protected]).

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