Vox Media is hiring a
Special Projects Director

Summary

Join our team as the Director of Special Projects and lead sponsored initiatives, editorial content, and brand licensing projects. Collaborate with teams to develop the overall brand editorial calendar and identify new areas of sports coverage.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in digital media, social, print, writing/editing, and journalism
• Experience with setting content strategy, creating packages and managing/mentoring a team
• Ability to stay ahead of trends and adapt to a constantly changing digital landscape
• Strong communication skills, especially in brainstorm sessions with clients and internal stakeholders
• Ability to write and edit clean, witty, accurate copy on tight deadlines
• Strong familiarity with social media
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing, collaborative team environment

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead special projects (as determined with Head of Content and League Directors)
• Ensure editorial content remains true to SB Nation brand and voice
• Manage and track special projects’ budget, including COS-driven projects, alongside Sr. Manager of Community & Special Project Operations
• Collaborate with SB Nation leadership to develop the overall brand editorial calendar
• Lead cross-team brainstorms for new initiatives, including editorial packages, sponsorships, and brand licensing projects
• Work closely with leadership and talent across leagues, dotcom, net dev and product teams to provide additional editorial support, ranging from editorial advising to editing one-off stories
• Help identify other new areas of sports coverage SB Nation should pursue, starting with women’s sports
• Serve as editorial liaison and development lead for brand licensing projects, along with owning or project managing all content output
• Act as NetDev’s first point of contact for proactive pitches and developing new ideas, initiatives, and experiential projects that are not tied to a specific RFP
• Serve as SB Nation editorial lead for client meetings and brainstorming sessions
• Have visibility on all RFP asks dropped in approval room, weighing in on cross-department sponsorship asks
• Work cross-functionally to find efficiencies and foster collaboration between teams, weighing in on staffing and resourcing
• Lead internal team comms on all special projects

Benefits

This job is benefits-eligible