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About the Role

The Atlantic is seeking a senior editor to build and lead The Atlantic Book Club, a new membership-exclusive reading program. This role involves shaping an editorial product focused on literature, making book selections, and engaging subscribers through various platforms. The ideal candidate will excel at cultivating relationships within the literary world, combining editorial judgment with community building and reader engagement.

Responsibilities

• Select and champion each Book Club title, making choices that reflect The Atlantic's intellectual rigor and editorial ambitions.
• Commission and edit essays, interviews, and contextual pieces tied to Book Club selections.
• Write a monthly (or bimonthly) editor's note or introduction to accompany each selection.
• Lead live and virtual author conversations and reader events.
• Develop and maintain a pipeline of book prospects, staying close to publishing schedules and building trusted relationships with editors, agents, and publicists.
• Collaborate closely with the Growth, Product, and Audience teams to shape how the Book Club is presented, packaged, and promoted to subscribers.
• Represent The Atlantic in the broader literary community at festivals, book fairs, and industry gatherings.
• Contribute ideas and editorial energy to The Atlantic's broader books and culture coverage.
• At times include night, early-morning, and weekend work.

Requirements

• At least five years of editing and writing experience and a deep familiarity with magazine writing.
• A well-developed point of view about literature—fiction and nonfiction alike—a willingness to argue for it, and an enthusiastic openness to a wide range of views.
• A deep, well-informed curiosity about what readers are passionately debating, and an instinct to know what they'll want to be debating months from now.
• A track record of having conceived of, built, shipped, and improved upon ambitious projects or products.
• Familiarity with the breadth of publishing and a keen interest in how literary and technological trends affect how and what people are reading.
• Impeccable editorial judgment.
• An obsession with the written word, including having developed your own stylish writerly voice.
• A desire to connect with people—in-person, online, through literature—and the judgment and energy required to represent The Atlantic across a number of platforms.
• Great taste, and the capacity to select books that are worthy of serious attention without tipping into inaccessibility, insularity, or superficiality.
• A desire to seek out big-name authors as well as hugely talented emerging writers of must-read books before they are widely recognized.
• Energized by the demanding pace of a real-time news organization, with all of the flexibility that requires—as well as the discipline needed to meet recurring deadlines without sacrificing quality.

Skills

• Editorial judgment
• Community building
• Reader engagement
• Relationship cultivation with authors, publishers, and the literary world
• Writing
• Editing
• Interviewing
• Event leadership
• Collaboration
• Public representation
• Content creation

Location

• Washington, D.C.
• New York City
• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time
• Remote considered, but in-person collaboration preferred

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $105,000
• $180,000

Benefits

• Membership-exclusive program

About the Company

• The Atlantic has, for more than 160 years, advanced ideas that matter and sparked global conversation on the most important issues of our time.
• We aim to bring clarity and original thinking to questions of consequence, on topics ranging from politics, the economy, and global affairs to technology, science, and culture.
• As the third-longest-running magazine in America, we find ourselves at a remarkable moment: one of both continuation and transformation, of upholding our legacy while continuously reinventing ourselves for the future.

Equal Opportunity

• The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities.
• We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
• Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy.
• The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status.
• Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.