Director of Editorial Operations

This role will oversee the daily operations of The Cut in both leadership and administrative capacities, while also connecting teams across verticals and platforms to track growth plans and optimize editorial strategies. 

This role is the gatekeeper of quality and coherence—capable of taking on diverse responsibilities, from strategic planning to management to quality control. Ensuring attention to detail across all verticals and stories we produce, and understanding how we influence readers both in print and digitally, requires a level of leadership and meticulousness that we have been lacking. This role is essential to driving both editorial excellence and operational efficiency.

WHO WE ARE

The Cut, a New York Magazine site, is home to the conversations that matter most to women today — from politics and intersectional feminism to work, money, relationships, mental health and sex — and forward-thinking coverage of fashion and style.

The Cut 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

• Prepare and manage the editorial budget, including overseeing freelance contracts
• Oversee the daily operations of the editorial team
• Plan and manage editorial calendars
• Assign tasks to writers and editors; ensure sponsored packages are progressing
• Proactively plan with editors to ensure writer goals, package timelines, and print deadlines are met
• Coordinate with other departments, such as sales, photo, and audience teams
• Manage Airtable workflow and edit priorities
• Develop and implement editorial policies and procedures
• Address any issues or conflicts within the editorial team
• Facilitate regular team meetings to discuss progress and strategies
• Evaluate and adopt new tools and technologies for content management
• Alongside New York’s newsroom analyst, develop and execute data-driven audience growth plans across various platforms
• Curate and deliver reports to staff to increase awareness of audience engagement projects and share best practices
• Work alongside print managing editor on production of The Cut’s biannual print issues
• Lead team meetings on traffic, audience development, and visual strategy
• Create content strategies and supervise their implementation
• Ensure the editorial team adheres to deadlines and solves roadblocks
• Create and implement strategies to increase editorial visibility on platforms such as Substack and Reddit

WHO YOU ARE

• Deep experience in running operations, preferably in the print magazine or digital media industry
• Meticulous attention to detail and strong organizational systems
• Ability to work autonomously, taking tasks and projects across the finish line without oversight
• Experience in audience and platform management
• People management experience
• Strong understanding of Cut priorities and sensibility
• Strong project management skills and comfort with tools

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 based in our New York, NY office.

WHY VOX MEDIA?

WHAT WE OFFER

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.

OUR DEI+ COMMITMENT

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]).

WHAT COMES NEXT

Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @voxmedia.com email addresses, never via text message. Read more about how our recruiting team operates, and how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud, here.