Deputy Editorial Director, Games

Summary

Join The New York Times as a Deputy Editorial Director to support its growing games subscription business. Reporting to the Executive Editorial Director, you will execute strategies to engage solvers and constructors of games and puzzles. This remote-friendly position, based in New York City, may require weekend work. You will help shape products people love, working with a team to reach existing and potential audiences. Responsibilities include managing a team, developing content production processes, and creating strategies to engage audiences across various platforms. You will also handle top-level edits, ideate content, filter audience feedback, and moderate community forums.

Requirements

• 7+ years working with social media, communications, reporting or engagement in a consumer-facing field such as entertainment, media, or games
• Basic experience with web production, and basic knowledge of web tools and interfaces
• Basic knowledge of journalism ethics and standards
• Experience creating communications for online audiences
• Proficiency with major social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram
• Proficiency with social media analytics tools

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of five, including writers, editors and community managers
• Develop, implement and oversee efficient Gameplay content production processes
• Help develop the Gameplay (our content vertical) strategy by
• Identify spaces where we should reach potential and existing audiences for our puzzles and help create a strategy
• Continue to develop our existing social media platforms, such as TikTok and Instagram
• Run production for our two flagship newsletters, Gameplay and Easy Mode
• Conduct hiring for community and gameplay vertical and participate in hiring discussions for puzzles
• Handle top level edits and strategic editing for stories and newsletters to guide content quality
• Ideate and assign content developed to engage our puzzle community and audience, such as our Puzzle Personality Quiz
• Help filter feedback from audiences on social media and comments for potential action items and implement solutions
• Supervise and participate in moderation shifts on community forums to ensure adherence to our forum engagement strategy
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building a branded account
• An appreciation for word games and puzzles