Director of Editorial Operations, The Cut
Description
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
Requirements
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.
Benefits & Perks
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.
How to apply
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**Overview** Vox Media is the leading independent modern media company. Known for building the best media brands and the technology that enables them, we are committed to building a better future for the industry — and getting the future of media right. Our portfolio features the most relevant and respected editorial properties across the biggest consumer categories, including: Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Cut, Eater, Vulture, The Strategist, Polygon, SB Nation, Intelligencer, Curbed, Grub Street, Recode, Thrillist, Popsugar, The Dodo, NowThis, and Seeker. Off-platform, the Vox Media Podcast Network is one of the largest collections of popular podcasts spanning technology, news, pop culture, emerging trends, and more. Vox Media Studios is the award-winning nonfiction production and distribution studio for multiple TV and streaming partners.