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Job Description
Why Hearst Magazines?
Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and O the Oprah Magazine. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.
But we're more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels-print, digital, video and social-with sophisticated content creation, distribution, and data capabilities. We create, package, and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.
Your Impact
Hearst Enthusiast Group (Runner's World, Bicycling, Popular Mechanics, Biography.com and Best Products) is looking for a Senior Features Editor to identify and execute feature stories that support the group's print, Apple News+, loyalty, and membership goals and make an impact within and beyond our endemic communities.
The Senior Features Editor will combine the craft of storytelling with sound journalism principles to pitch, assign, and edit-or occasionally write-stories that range from deeply reported narratives to fast-turn features to thoroughly informative packages across all platforms of the Enthusiast brands.
The ideal candidate is a prolific idea generator with experience developing features for editorial publications, the ability to think broadly and critically, and a track record of publishing impactful long-form journalism. This role will report to the Executive Features Director.
What you'll do
- Use data signals to identify and execute features that meet success metrics across all Enthusiast Group brands
- Pitch, develop, and edit features, and other content as needed, to the highest level of excellence for print, Apple News+, and websites across brands (primarily PopMech, BI, RW)
- Work with writers, photographers, designers, fact checkers, and other contributors to tell diverse stories (across multiple platforms as needed) while hitting budget and deadline targets
- Cultivate relationships within relevant communities to identify story ideas and new contributors
- Collaborate with coworkers to brainstorm and develop new ideas and coverage opportunities
- Build features in the print and digital CMS environments
- Other duties as needed
What you'll offer - Five-plus years of relevant professional experience in consumer editorial (print and digital), with a robust portfolio of work including reported narratives, profiles, investigations, and service packages
- A sophisticated understanding of the elements of effective magazine storytelling
- Existing relationships with best-in-class feature writers in the areas of science/tech, sports, fitness, and general interest
- A commitment to journalistic ethics and standards and experience with legally sensitive stories
- An ability to articulate feedback to writers and other contributors with clarity and sensitivity
- An ability and willingness to be flexible in a deadline-driven work environment, to adapt to strategy changes, and to take on new challenges when the need and opportunity arises
- A strategic mindset and experience with hitting strategy goals, as well as an ability and willingness to use data to inform creative decisions
- A flair for impactful display copy, and an obsession with story structure
- An endless supply of ideas
- An innate curiosity for how the world works and an affinity for running and/or cycling (preferred but not required)
- A bachelor's degree in English, liberal arts, journalism, or a related field
NOTE: For consideration, resumes must be submitted in PDF format with a cover letter, salary requirements, and a link to a portfolio of work.
The base salary for this role is $68,829 - $78,000. The base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
This is a position covered under the Writers Guild of America, East, Collective Bargaining Agreement.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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