Features Editor, WIRED

Condé Nast Germany • New York, NY

1d • $80,000 - $165,000 • Onsite

About The Position

WIRED is hiring a full-time Features Editor to assign and edit ambitious feature projects across platforms, including longform stories and creative packages. The editor will help develop stories about how science and technology affect business, politics, culture, society, and human nature, as well as extraordinary tales and stories about people addressing major challenges. The role involves turning topics and pitches into compelling stories, guiding writers through reporting and narrative development, shaping work for audiences across platforms, and editing with a focus on elegant writing and clarity. The editor will work with WIRED staff writers and freelancers, help writers grow through clear and empathetic feedback, and collaborate with colleagues across the magazine. This Guild position is based in New York City.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience as an editor in a newsroom or magazine.
• Experience with and curiosity about stories on how technology and science affect business, culture, politics, and more.
• Demonstrated ability to turn feature story manuscripts into first-rate articles for a national audience.
• Excellent narrative-structuring and line-editing skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively and collegially with fact checkers, copy editors, designers, photo editors, digital producers, social media producers, and other story editors.
• Facility with headlines, subheads, captions, and other elements of story building and promotion.
• Ability to guide writers’ reporting to bring out compelling characters and story elements, develop longform narratives, and provide clear, thorough, and empathetic feedback.

Responsibilities

• Conceive feature stories and evaluate feature pitches from freelance writers and staff members.
• Assign, track, and edit stories.
• Oversee, with colleagues, at least two packages a year in print and online.
• Recruit freelance feature writers and help staffers do their best features work.
• Participate in brainstorms with other editors, bringing original ideas and helping refine others’ ideas.
• Work closely with WIRED’s art, production, research, copy editing, and social teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed