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About the Role

The Copy Director will oversee Tatler’s copy desk and sub-editing workflow across all platforms, ensuring witty headlines, brilliant sells, and informative captions. This role requires a natural creative flair, an intimate understanding of the Tatler world, and the ability to transform edited copy into impeccably crafted reads. The successful candidate will lead the copy desk, ensuring tasks are completed to the highest standard within production deadlines, and foster adaptability within the team as editorial excellence grows.

Responsibilities

Oversee Tatler’s copy desk to ensure our pieces have witty, sophisticated headlines and sells, and informative captions
Understand Tatler’s cast of characters, including how and when to use titles, and be able to identify recurring Bystander faces
Lead fact-checking and take responsibility for ensuring that the magazine is error-free
Ensure that copy is correct in terms of spelling and grammar
Own the copy-editing workflow across main magazine, supplements and any other platform as may be needed
Be prepared to occasionally edit raw copy
Take an active interest in developing the copy team’s skills
Work closely with other department heads to maintain a smooth workflow
Flag possible legal issues
Sign off pages on final proof and conduct careful Cromalin reads
Liaise with the production department about any revisions to Cromalins and Sherpas

Requirements

Previous experience as a senior copy editor
Proven team-management skills
Calm, collected and methodical approach to dealing with work in a fast-paced environment
Excellent copy editor capable of embedding Tatler’s tone into all our pieces
Excellent Adobe Creative Suite (particularly InDesign and InCopy) skills
CMS experience

Skills

Copy editing
Headline writing
Sub-editing
Team management
Adobe Creative Suite
InDesign
InCopy
CMS

Location

London, GB

Work Type

Hybrid (four days a week in office)

Experience Level

Senior

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 Condé Nast Learning Hub for personal and professional growth
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, and our teams come together in the office four days a week (Monday - Thursday).
We value diversity of background, views and cultures. We celebrate people for their personal qualities, skills and contributions, recognising the power our brands have to influence and shape culture.

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.