Assistant to the Editor of WSJ Magazine

Dow Jones

100d • $70,000 - $80,000

About The Position

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a dynamic self-starter to manage day-to-day office operations for the editor in chief of WSJ. Magazine & the Journal’s Style News section, managing a range of editorial, strategic and commercial support duties in a collegial yet fast-paced newsroom environment. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, highly proactive and an efficient multitasker on a cross-functional team. They will anticipate needs, learn quickly as new opportunities and challenges arise, and have very polished communication skills. WSJ. Magazine sets the bar in defining luxury style, providing best-in-class lifestyle editorial and muscular feature journalism to an affluent global readership. The Journal’s Style News offers a lively lens on the zeitgeist, drawing connections between events and trends in the culture to form original, big-picture theses about the present moment. This is a huge learning opportunity for someone at the start of their journalism career to learn first-hand all facets of the media business within a creative and award-winning team.

Requirements

• A college degree and 1 to 3 years of work experience for a publishing company, media brand or similar in a support role.
• Exceptional organizational skills, including the ability to manage a high volume of tasks efficiently, and a positive, can-do outlook that allows for problem-solving in a timely manner.
• Good anticipatory skills toward managing conflicting deadlines, recurring logjams, or disruptions to daily plans.
• Excellent writing and research skills, with close attention to accuracy, etiquette, grammar and spelling.
• A comfort liaising with global offices or overseas stakeholders and externals.
• Interest in and passion for lifestyle or magazine journalism or luxury editorial content in a newsroom environment.

Responsibilities

• Strategically manage the daily calendar and weekly agenda, including coordinating with senior team leaders to ensure team operations run smoothly and all production deadlines are met.
• Be a 'quick study' on internal and external stakeholders and priorities, including Dow Jones organizational culture, Wall Street Journal company culture, newsroom standards & ethics, key internal executives and protocols, as well as external business partners, CEOs and other industry VIPs.
• Demonstrate strong operational understanding of how to handle an evolving list of priorities, both editorial and commercial, and show good judgement, discretion, and confidentiality.
• Manage delivery schedule of editorial signoffs with close eye on all high-level production timetables, deadlines, and due dates.
• Oversee frequent international and domestic travel arrangements and organize trips in communication with Dow Jones European office to ensure business priorities are met, including directly scheduling with numerous business partners overseas.
• Supervise evolving schedule during travel periods, and ensure office runs smoothly in absence.
• Run internal and external meeting arrangements including tech set-up, coordination of attendees, preparation of materials, location support.
• Take notes, prepare documents and meticulously manage records for coordination of follow-ups and next steps.
• Prepare research prompts according to guidelines ahead of speaking engagements, panels, media appearances or 'off-the-record' summits.
• Manage office role in planning of editorial events and receptions, including serving as on-site support, organizing sign-offs, and acting as communications partner to events team on logistics and deadlines.
• Collaborate effectively with internal partners such as WSJ MEO, Finance and HR to support scheduling company-wide events such as year-end reviews, compensation meetings, workforce planning and legal/Standards training.
• Manage team office administration and supplies, liaising with the Dow Jones internal Tech Support or iOffice teams to coordinate maintenance as necessary.
• Maintain highest code of conduct under WSJ’s Standards & Ethics policies, and ensure those policies are maintained flawlessly throughout the operation of the office.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits.
• Flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees