Features Director, Tatler at Condé Nast | England, GB | Rezi

Features Director, Tatler at Condé Nast

Features Director, Tatler

Condé Nast · England, GB

1 months ago

Features Director, Tatler

Condé Nast · England, GB

a month ago
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About the Role

TATLER is seeking a Features Director to lead its Features desk, create and commission agenda-setting content, and oversee the team's output across print, digital, and social platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Commission agenda-setting stories for both print and digital
  • Be obsessive about culture, current affairs and the Tatler scene
  • Edit, proofread and work with sub-editors to come up with witty headlines and standfirsts
  • Work closely with the wider team to deliver punchy and must-read coverlines
  • Establish strong relationships with key industry contacts
  • Lead Features meetings, manage the team’s daily content output, oversee the features budget and ensure deadlines are met
  • Identify and pursue landing Tatler-unique cover talent when non-celebrity is required
  • Contribute creative ideas on how to cover key events across different digital platforms, including social and video
  • Use their strong network of writers and journalists to deliver top-quality pieces and scoops for Tatler
  • Take a keen interest in mentoring the Features team
  • Undertake any other duties as reasonably required

Requirements

  • The ability to deliver edited copy to a high standard within tight deadlines
  • A good knowledge of the Tatler world and who’s who
  • Excellent writing and copy-editing skills, with a sharp eye for detail
  • A nose for news: an ideas generator, eager to uncover original stories and angles that work across all of Tatler’s platforms
  • Exhaustive knowledge of high society, fashion, film, lifestyle and arts and culture
  • Extensive experience as a senior editor within an established global media business or working on a national title, with experience running a features team
  • Excellent people-management, delegation and communication skills
  • Great planning and organisational skills
  • A brilliant contacts book of writers and journalists to commission for features
  • Impeccable discipline with keeping to, and enforcing, deadlines

Skills

  • Creative flair for new content
  • Strong understanding of Tatler’s heritage, modern world, cast of characters and direction
  • Writing skills
  • Copy-editing skills
  • People-management skills
  • Delegation skills
  • Communication skills
  • Planning skills
  • Organisational skills

Location

  • London, GB

Work Type

  • Hybrid (four days a week in the office)

Experience Level

  • Senior editor experience
  • Experience running a features team

Benefits

  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
  • Extra days of annual leave for moving house or volunteering
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Bupa Private Healthcare
  • Season ticket loans
  • Eye tests
  • Core hours
  • 10 remote days (from home or a country with a Condé Nast office location)
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Corporate gym membership
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Discounts and magazine subscriptions
  • Access to the Condé Nast Learning Hub
  • Employee Resource Groups

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, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.
  • Condé Nast Entertainment was launched in 2011 to develop film, television and premium digital video programming.
  • We are headquartered in New York and London and operate in 32 markets worldwide, with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers across print, digital, video and social platforms.
  • Condé Nast thrives on collaboration.

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.