Senior Social Media Editor

Summary

Join New York Magazine's Cut as a Senior Social Editor to lead special projects across platforms, focusing on visual storytelling. You will partner with editors, develop content strategies, and manage social media rollouts. This role requires strong writing, editing, and visual skills, along with experience growing social media audiences. The position is remote/in-office/flex and offers benefits. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of social media trends and New York City culture, along with 5+ years of experience. Apply even if you don't meet every requirement; unique skills are valued.

Requirements

• Strong writing and editing skills, impeccable attention to detail, and an intolerance for errors
• Prior experience growing an audience, preferably on a social platform
• Strong editorial and news judgment
• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop
• Ability to concisely translate a complicated feature or news story on social platforms
• Strong understanding of analytics and social media trends across platforms
• A deep, pre-existing knowledge of New York City and its cultural scene
• 5+ years of experience

Responsibilities

• Partner with editors to pitch and develop sharply honed, imaginative, and sophisticated ideas and franchises for original and platform-native content that meaningfully engages our audiences on social platforms
• Package and translate our journalism to feel native to the platforms on which they are published and without sacrificing editorial voice and integrity
• Take initiative on planning social rollouts to amplify our biweekly magazine issue and our most original and ambitious journalism on a daily basis
• Possess a strong visual eye and help elevate New York Magazine’s visual storytelling on social platforms. Collaborate closely with editors and our visuals team and establish a workflow to translate our stories and visuals for social media
• Develop a content strategy and calendar for New York Magazine’s Instagram account
• Inspire and motivate editorial teams to experiment with and innovate on new storytelling formats, including user-generated content stories, Instagram Stories, live and social video, live audio, platform takeovers, and other formats on emerging platforms
• Identify opportunities to develop social talent for our platforms
• Collaborate with a team of social editors to curate the best of our journalism from across our verticals
• Support various special projects across editorial, podcasts, events, marketing, consumer revenue, and communications
• Be flexible to the demands of a newsroom schedule
• Help manage other accounts and platforms as needed, and take on other responsibilities as assigned by your manager or supervisor

Preferred Qualifications

• A sharp sense of humor
• Creativity and a passion for new storytelling formats

Benefits

• This is a permanent, full-time position
• This job is benefits-eligible
• This position is covered by the collective bargaining agreement between the Company and The NewsGuild of New York, CWA Local 31003, AFL-CIO
• Remote/in office/flex