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About the Role

GQ is seeking a Senior Commerce Editor to lead and expand GQ Recommends across grooming, wellness, fitness, and lifestyle. This role involves writing, assigning, editing, and publishing daily commerce content, including buying guides and product news, with a focus on visual storytelling across various platforms like video and social media. The ideal candidate will be adept at both behind-the-scenes content shaping and on-camera presence, driving performance and revenue growth.

Responsibilities

Manage toward brand-level revenue targets and margin, using performance against goals to direct content strategy and resource prioritization.
Oversee day-to-day management of staff, freelance writers, and producers, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
Manage freelance budgets and allocation across production, photography, freelance writers, and editors.
Pitch, write, edit, and update seasonal shopping guides, roundups, and single-item odes across grooming, wellness, fitness and lifestyle in addition to potential growth categories.
Partner with SEO to implement best practices and optimize content for search, newsletter, and social.
Develop, plan, and execute content lineups to support priority merchant partnerships and meet revenue goals.
Work cross-functionally with editorial, audience development, social, and video teams to maintain GQ Recommends’ authority, humor, and editorial point of view across every platform.
Build a holistic content strategy that maximizes CTR, AOV, and ARPU.
Continually experiment with new formats, visual storytelling approaches, and creative ways to make shopping content feel fresh, useful, and distinctly GQ.
Build growth strategies that diversify traffic sources across search, email, social, creator, and direct.
Assist with the newsletter strategy ideation and execution for the brand, including vertical growth, content quality, and acquisition.
Assign resources against each channel based on opportunity size.
Foster innovation in multi-modal content distribution.
Facilitate and execute partnership content at the brand level, working closely with directors, brand leads, and the partnerships team to ensure deliverables strengthen relationships and drive revenue.
Take a leadership role in the conception and execution of new shoppable multi-modal content formats across various channels, collaborating with cross-functional partners to create engaging and monetizable content experiences for audiences.
Champion experimentation with new formats, distribution models, and revenue approaches across the team.

Requirements

6-7 years of editing experience in a digital media environment, with a background in service journalism and product recommendations preferred.
Familiarity with affiliate platforms and programs (i.e., Skimlinks and Amazon).
Strong understanding of web analytics, SEO, and commerce best practices.
Proven experience managing several editorial staffers at different levels, from top-editing to one-on-one performance feedback.
An understanding of and enthusiasm for style as it relates to all categories of shopping coverage.
Ability to produce conversational, approachable commerce stories that are factually accurate, and that motivate and inspire readers.
Experience collaborating cross-functionally with editorial, advertising, design, video, and engineering teams.
Excellent organizational, communication, and project management skills, with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Commerce publishing
SEO
Visual storytelling
Video
Social media
Newsletter strategy
Content strategy
Editorial judgement
Management skills
Web analytics
Affiliate platforms
Project management

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

Guild position

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$90,000 - $100,000

About the Company

Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms.
The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.
Condé Nast is a global media company home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, AD, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New Yorker, Glamour, Allure, Bon Appétit and many more.
Headquartered in New York and London, the company produces award-winning journalism, content and entertainment for every platform today and operates in 32 markets worldwide including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the U.K. and U.S., and Taiwan.
At Condé Nast we value diversity of background, views and cultures.
We celebrate people for their personal qualities, their skills and contributions.
And we recognize the power our brands have to influence and shape culture, catalyze action and help make our world a better place for all.

Equal Opportunity

Condé Nast is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status, and other legally protected characteristics.
Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.