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About the Role

GQ is seeking a Commerce Editor to expand its style content on GQ Recommends. This role involves writing and publishing daily commerce content, including buying guides and product news, with a focus on visual storytelling across various platforms like video, social media, and newsletters. The editor will collaborate with editorial and cross-functional teams to achieve revenue growth targets, requiring strong editorial judgment, a deep understanding of commerce publishing and SEO, and expertise in how shopping content performs across different platforms.

Responsibilities

Manage toward brand-level revenue targets and margin, using performance against goals to direct content strategy and resource prioritisation
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 for GQ Recommends’ style coverage
Partner with SEO to implement best practices and optimise content for search, newsletter, and social
In collaboration with priority merchant partners, help develop, plan, and execute content lineups to support those partnerships and help us meet our revenue goals
Work cross-functionally with editorial, audience development, social, and video teams to maintain GQ Recommends’ authority, humour, and editorial point of view across every platform
Build a holistic content strategy for our style coverage that maximises CTR, AOV, and EPC
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 monetisable content experiences for audiences
Champion experimentation with new formats, distribution models, and revenue approaches across the team

Requirements

A minimum of three 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
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.
Excellent organisational, 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
Editorial judgment
Affiliate platforms
Web analytics
Project management

Location

London, GB

Work Type

Hybrid (office four days a week)
Remote (10 days)

Experience Level

3-5 years of experience as a full-time editor

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 one of the world's most renowned media publishing companies, creating and distributing all types of media across print and digital formats.
The company has a portfolio of influential brands and continues to grow its audience globally.
Headquartered in New York City, Condé Nast operates in 12 owned and operated markets and has local license partners in over twenty additional markets.
Lead brands include Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler, Vanity Fair, Wired, Allure, Ars Technica, Bon Appétit, House & Garden, Pitchfork, Tatler, and Vogue Business.
Condé Nast is a global media company with iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, CN Traveller, Vanity Fair, Wired, The World of Interiors, House & Garden and Tatler.
The company is headquartered in New York and London and operates in 32 markets worldwide, reaching over 1 billion consumers across print, digital, video, and social platforms.
Condé Nast thrives on collaboration, valuing diversity of background, views, and cultures.

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.