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About the Role

The New Yorker is seeking a creative and highly collaborative Social-Media Editor to shape how the magazine’s journalism appears across social platforms. This editor will develop compelling, platform-native expressions of The New Yorker’s stories and social-native brand extensions, serving as a principal encounter with the brand for many visitors.

Responsibilities

• Develop platform-native social treatments for New Yorker journalism across established and emerging platforms.
• Write, edit, and produce social-native assets, including short-form video, platform-specific visual packages, copy, and other creative materials.
• Collaborate with art, photo, video, editorial, audience development, and analytics teams to develop and execute social treatments for major stories, packages, tentpoles, and editorial initiatives.
• Execute daily, weekly, and weekend publishing priorities through strong platform-specific framing, copy, visuals, and formats.
• Develop and lead new social-first formats, franchises, and other recurring or experimental treatments.
• Provide editorial and creative guidance to other team members on post framing, platform expression, asset development, and sensitive or complex story treatments.
• Define, maintain, and evolve social best practices, including standards for voice, positioning, visual storytelling, video packaging, platform formats, and escalation.
• Monitor platform trends, audience behavior, and performance patterns, and recommend creative or editorial adjustments.
• Contribute to social coverage of breaking news, major editorial moments, live events, and other time-sensitive programming.
• Identify opportunities to leverage The New Yorker’s archive for timely, creative, and platform-native social storytelling.
• Contribute to the production and refinement of social assets for paid partnerships on The New Yorker’s organic social channels.
• Perform additional duties as required or assigned by manager.

Requirements

• Five or more years’ experience in social media, digital journalism, audience development, video, or editorial programming at a media organization.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with a demonstrated ability to translate complex journalism into clear, engaging social copy.
• Strong editorial judgment and deep familiarity with The New Yorker’s voice, standards, journalism, and coverage areas.
• Extensive knowledge of social-media platforms, both established and emerging, and ability to adapt quickly to platform, format, and audience behavior changes.
• Demonstrated ability to develop platform-native social treatments, formats, or packages for journalism, criticism, culture, humor, or news.
• Strong visual storytelling instincts and experience working with images, graphics, video, or other multimedia formats for social platforms.
• Experience producing or editing short-form social video, including Reels, TikToks, Stories, or similar formats.
• Familiarity with design, scheduling, and video tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Dash Social, or similar platforms.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and collaborators in a fast-paced editorial environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with editors, writers, designers, photo editors, video producers, audience-development colleagues, analytics teams, and other stakeholders.
• Familiarity with analytics and performance tools such as Google Analytics, Parse.ly, or similar platforms, and ability to apply performance insights to creative and editorial decisions.
• Meticulous attention to detail, including accuracy, tone, grammar, image use, platform conventions, and editorial standards.
• A proactive, experimental, and solutions-oriented approach to social storytelling.
• Experience with motion graphics, illustration, audio, or more advanced video production is a plus.
• Willingness to work occasional early mornings, nights, weekends, or holidays as needed.

Skills

• Social media
• Digital journalism
• Audience development
• Video production
• Editorial programming
• Writing
• Editing
• Social platform expertise
• Visual storytelling
• Short-form video production
• Figma
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Dash Social
• Google Analytics
• Parse.ly
• Motion graphics
• Illustration
• Audio production
• Advanced video production

Location

• New York, NY

Work Type

• Guild position

Experience Level

• Five or more years’ experience

Salary/Compensations

• $88,000 - $90,500

About the Company

• The New Yorker is a multi-platform media enterprise, spanning print, digital, audio, video, and live events. Founded in 1925, it is renowned for its in-depth reporting, commentary, fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons.
• 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. Its portfolio includes Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired.
• Condé Nast Entertainment was launched in 2011 to develop film, television and premium digital video programming.

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.