Director of Editorial Operations, WSJ. Magazine & Style

Dow Jones

78d • $180,000 - $225,000

About The Position

WSJ. Magazine and The Wall Street Journal’s Style News section are seeking a dynamic and experienced Director of Editorial Operations to lead and project-manage an award-winning editorial and creative team, helping ensure smooth operations across all platforms. The ideal candidate has deep experience as a magazine managing editor or operations leader in an editorial setting. They are a deft problem-solver, demonstrating robust understanding of digital and print content strategy and how to execute on time and on budget; of hiring, recruitment, culture-fostering and personnel management; of good financial hygiene and successful workflows; and of working closely with commercial, marketing, product and event teams to ensure all business needs are met. They will thrive in a fast-paced but warm, collegial environment, and be ready to push The Journal’s strong Style team forward with energy and enthusiasm. WSJ. Magazine sets the bar in defining luxury style, providing best-in-class fashion editorial and exceptional feature journalism to an affluent global readership. The Journal’s Style News feature team blends deep reporting, sharp wit and good taste to create compulsively readable news and enterprise stories on the zeitgeist.

Requirements

• 12 to 15 years of experience with proven effective leadership of large, creative editorial teams or senior roles in fast-paced news environments.
• Strong skills as an influential and well-regarded manager, with a track record of motivating teams and fostering talent, as well as experience working collaboratively across departments to produce results.
• Excellent time-management and prioritization skills, the ability to deploy people and resources to meet a variety of goals across different deadlines.
• The organizational savvy to juggle daily deadlines while keeping long-term strategy in focus.
• Comfort with financial management and balancing a budget against an editorial calendar.
• Experience managing team finances and a comfort with balancing budgets against editorial calendars.
• A collaborative attitude, strong communication skills and the ability to forge compromise and conjoin conflicting interests or competing timelines in a cross-functional organization.
• A deep commitment to editorial excellence and holding high standards for ethical conduct.

Responsibilities

• Oversee editorial operations and managerial administration of magazine & style publishing and personnel, ensuring all goals are met, projects are on track and commercial objectives are achieved.
• Serve as proxy for WSJ. Mag editor and translate editorial and commercial strategy into team priorities.
• Communicate directives and feedback to larger team and serve as main authority for operations.
• Manage and motivate a team of direct reports as well as the larger organization, both its editorial (reporters, editors, platforms) and creative (photo, fashion, design, social) sides.
• Liaise with marketing, commercial, live-journalism teams, the larger Wall Street Journal’s managing editor office and Dow Jones corporate contacts on shared initiatives or goals.
• Oversee all team involved in branded magazine or style extensions—including events, merchandise, special editions, pops-ups or speaking panels/presentations—and ensure success in all contexts.
• Build and implement timelines and supervise execution.
• Supervise and co-manage hiring processes with HR, MEO, Recruitment and section managers as they recruit, vet and hire candidates.
• Participate in hiring screens and ensure all talent meets Wall Street Journal standards.
• Direct staff onboarding, training, seating, team facility use, equipment needs, travel/credentialing requirements and adherence of all departments to office-related policies.
• Lead regular budget meetings and take weekly pulse of spending with Deputy Managing Editor & Production Chief.
• Help identify opportunities to thoughtfully evolve or refresh existing workflows or editorial production strategy, particularly around emerging platforms and franchises.
• Act as a point of contact on product, workflow, or corporate-level initiatives as they pertain to WSJ. Mag & Style, and communicate those to the team.
• Supervise the planning of trainings and team events (an annual retreat, etc.) that ensure best practices on Journal strategy and audience goals are communicated and met.
• Ensure the top-tier execution and ethical standards of WSJ. Magazine and the wider Wall Street Journal are consistently met: that work is of impeccable quality across all platforms, and that The Journal’s codes of conduct and overall Standards & Ethics rules are met.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits.
• Elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees