Managing Editor

Location: i Headquarters – London
Position: permanent 

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution. 
• Life cover under the Pension Plan 4x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym 
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics 
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Job Description

i is looking for a highly experienced Managing Editor to join the newsroom at a crucial and exciting time in its growth journey. This is a rare and unique opportunity to join a title that has, in under three years, built a strong digital subscriber audience, grown its reach to over 11m users a month and broken some of the biggest scoops in UK journalism. i also has a strong and robust print circulation that continues to gain market share and benefit from investment.

The successful candidate will report to the Executive Managing Editor and work closely with other senior executives to deliver i’s editorial and digital goals, as well as overseeing budgets, recruitment, and personnel. This role involves both strategic planning and day-to-day operational management of i’s editorial team, working with finance, HR, commercial and editorial execs to ensure the smooth running of the business. Organisational skills, leadership and problem-solving are all key. 

Main Responsibilities

• Budget management: set budgets in conjunction with other management executives and ensure that they are kept to
• Lead on regulatory issues including liaison with Ipso, compliance, pre and post publication advice and complaints handling
• HR: lead on personnel issues. Work with HR to manage personnel matters and ensure the smooth running of i editorial
• Oversee recruitment, working with senior executives and section heads to lead talent identification, hiring and retention across all departments
• Digital transformation: work with senior executives to help drive the wider transformation of the newsroom to support business subscription goals

Person Specification

Essential

• Significant experience in a national news environment, including executive experience as a desk head, or significant managerial experience in a news environment
• Significant experience in liaising with legal and editorial teams to ensure complex stories meet rigorous journalistic standards
• Experience in digital newsroom transformation
• Ability to run budgets and manage those who are running budgets
• Proven people manager with experience of running teams of 15 or more
• Familiarity with operating in regulated environments and understanding of complaints handling processes
• Experience of working in digital and/or print at a high level
• Substantial experience of HR issues including talent recruitment

Critical Skills and Competencies

• High standard of literacy
• Highly numerate
• Empathy
• Decisiveness
• Resilience
• Organisation
• Creativity
• Prioritisation
• Ability to work across different functions and teams effectively
• Legal and regulatory knowledge
• Ability to work with other teams effectively against deadline
• High standards of accuracy

About Us

i is Britain’s youngest national news publisher – and one of the most trusted. i has a unique mission: publishing non-partisan reporting and intelligent opinion. With a strong digital subscriber audience and a healthy print circulation, i has also grown digital reach to 11m users a month. Its newsroom breaks some of the biggest stories in UK journalism. Growing in influence and profitable, i is shortlisted for News Website of the Year and National Newspaper of the Year in the 2024 Press Awards and is a recent winner of Daily Newspaper of the Year (London Press Club) and News Website of the Year (Online Media Awards). We pride ourselves on having a dynamic, collegiate work environment that celebrates creativity, innovation and success.

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.