Executive Director, Edit Strategy and Operations
About The Position
As Executive Director, Edit Strategy and Operations for the People Inc. food brands, you will lead strategic planning and drive growth across the entire portfolio – including Allrecipes, EatingWell, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, and more. This role combines strategic content leadership with operational execution, requiring both high-level analytical thinking and hands-on implementation capabilities. Reporting to the SVP, Associate Group General Manager, you will develop data-driven strategies for growth, product, and revenue, while ensuring operational efficiency. Hybrid 3x a week- (New York) In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience
- Proven track record of driving audience growth and engagement through strategic initiatives
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into actionable insights and content strategies
- Solid understanding of editorial operations, workflows and systems
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence at all levels
- Expertise in content strategy, SEO, and audience development
- Ability to balance editorial quality with business objectives
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute strategies to drive audience growth and engagement across multiple brands in partnership with senior food leadership.
- Develop complex modeling (financial and digital KPIs) and scenario planning to create business cases to support strategy and investments.
- Oversee P&L and budget planning with the SVP, Associate Group General Manager.
- Oversee content operations, production and library management.
- Lead cross-functional meetings and ensure alignment across teams.
- Bridge communication gaps between product, editorial, and marketing functions
- Streamline editorial operations to boost efficiency, data accessibility, and team productivity.
- Manage content production and promotion workflows in conjunction with SVP, Associate Group GM and brand editorial leadership.
- Identify, pilot, and scale AI-powered solutions to reduce manual effort and unlock creativity, including establishing frameworks for responsible AI usage, quality control, and brand voice consistency.
- Partner with product, marketing, revenue, and growth teams to optimize user experience and brand performance.
- Align cross-functional teams (content, growth, product, ART, social) to ensure process and operations exist to achieve goals.
- Pilot innovative product features and business models in collaboration with internal teams.
- Implement annual strategic planning processes across brands, consulting with Associate Group GM on prioritization and execution
Benefits
- unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- adoption or surrogate assistance
- donation matching
- tuition reimbursement
- basic life insurance
- basic accidental death & dismemberment
- supplemental life insurance
- supplemental accident insurance
- commuter benefits
- short term and long term disability
- health savings and flexible spending accounts
- family care benefits
- a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program
- 10-12 paid holidays annually
- generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents)
- medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage
- voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
