Bon Appétit is the destination for food-obsessed audiences who live to eat. We deliver original, home-cook-friendly recipes; highlight techniques and products to improve or elevate everyday cooking; and offer restaurant and culture content that helps contextualize what’s happening right now in the world of food. Epicurious is the all-in-one platform for cooking inspiration and advice that helps home cooks at every level get dinner on the table. It is the brand that answers the question “What’s for dinner tonight?” and draws people in with trustworthy, myth-busting tips and techniques as well as the stories behind iconic dishes and expert shopping recommendations. Bon Appétit and Epicurious reach millions of home cooks and food lovers across Bonappetit.com and the magazine, Epicurious.com, the Epicurious app, the BA podcast, live events, video, newsletter, and social platforms.Job Description
Location:
London, GB
Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, GQ, Glamour, AD, Vanity Fair and Wired, among many others. Our award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.
We are headquartered in London and New York, and operate in 31 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Spain, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S., with local licence partners across the globe.
The Role
Bon Appétit and Epicurious are seeking an experienced Senior Editor to lead our new digital and social media venture in the UK. Bon Appétit UK will have a distinct and timely point of view, dynamic visuals and will take a new lens on food culture that will entertain, inspire and inform. To succeed in this role, you must be a self-starter who is passionate about exploring the world through what we eat and can deliver high-impact storytelling on web and video platforms.
The Senior Editor UK will be primarily responsible for writing and editing coverage of food culture and lifestyle topics, including restaurants, drinks, travel, health and wellness and foodways content in and around the UK, delivering content that can be delivered on the web, social video primarily, and other platforms, including print, audio and events. . This editor will also contribute to UK editions of Bon Appetit’s Best New Restaurants and Best New Bars lists and will work in close collaboration with the US Editorial Team. You must be able to commission, edit, and publish similar features from freelance writers, and participate in social videos as talent. The editor reports to the Director of Social Content UK.
What will you be doing?
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Conceive, pitch, assign, track, and edit food culture topics, including restaurants, drinks,
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travel and shopping for UK audiences, for all UK platforms and distribution channels.
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Manage City Guides in the UK
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Proactively seek out interesting, diverse voices to write about food culture that is relevant to
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UK, and can appeal to global audiences.
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Manage all projects from concept to execution including, but not limited to: partnering with
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photo/art teams on visuals and design to accompany stories; reading proofs and answering
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fact-checking and copy queries as needed; seeing stories through production processes; and
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partnering with social and/or video teams to ensure stories have maximum impact.
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Assign and edit original content as well as adapt existing content for a variety of Bon Appetit
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products.
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Meet individual and/or section KPIs as assigned (i.e. production expectations, UVs,
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engagement, time spent, and/or other related goals).
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Partner with audience development and analytics to consistently improve content strategy
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and output.
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Contribute to brand extensions, social platforms, and additional projects as needed.
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Identify and work collaboratively with global markets on all relevant stories or packages
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Represent the brand in a public-facing way as necessary, such as in press opportunities,
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panels and speaking engagements, and internal company presentations.
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Additional projects/stories as assigned.
Who you are:
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Strong proven of experience as an editor in a fast-paced, digital and news-driven
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environment, with at least 2 years managing others.
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A past portfolio of work that reflects significant experience with, and a deep curiosity for
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restaurants, food culture, health and wellness and other related topics.
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Experience overseeing multi-platform content from brainstorm to deployment—balancing
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daily deadlines with longer-lead stories, approving ideas, sourcing art, scheduling posts,
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using a CMS platform to publish, promotion on newsletters and social, etc.
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Experience and passion for delivering big, ambitious reporting projects in the political arena,
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with a knack for guiding reporters through the thorniest of endeavours.
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Skilled at line editing and helping writers achieve their best reporting and writing.
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Able to structure a story for maximum impact, reader understanding, and engagement.
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Facility with headlines, subheads, captions, display text, and other elements of story building.
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Highly collaborative with excellent communication skills - adept at working with a diverse
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team of fact-checkers, copy editors, designers, photo editors, digital producers, social media
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producers and story editors.
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Social media-savvy, and experienced in using social platforms to monitor conversations around
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food culture
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Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
What benefits do we offer?
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25 days holiday and extra days of annual leave for life events
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Core hours
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Competitive pension scheme
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Bupa Private Healthcare
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Enhanced maternity leave and family leave
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Season ticket loans
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Cycle to work scheme
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Employee Assistance programme
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Bring your dog to work
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A wide variety of wellness benefits including gym discounts
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Discounts and Magazine Subscriptions
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Employee Resource Groups to provide a platform for employees to identify shared objectives, exchange ideas, and work on community priorities for our global workforce
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Condé Nast Learning Hub where you’ll find all Condé Nast-developed learning courses and training, and over 16,000+ courses in seven local languages
What happens next?
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.
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.
