Senior Manager, Commerce Content Planning, WIRED

Condé Nast Germany•New York, NY

5d•$98,000 - $130,000

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Content Planning is a key editorial leader on WIRED’s Reviews team. The role manages day-to-day newsroom operations, directly manages Reviews writers and producers, and ensures the team delivers high-quality, useful, commercially valuable journalism. The position owns the daily editorial pipeline and the systems that support WIRED Reviews, including assignments, deadlines, editing, publishing schedules, content updates, tentpoles, and team capacity. Working closely with Reviews editors and the Executive Commerce Director, the Senior Manager translates editorial, audience, SEO, and business priorities into clear, achievable plans. The ideal candidate is an experienced editor, newsroom manager, and commerce operator with strong editorial judgment, monetization expertise, people-management skills, and the ability to organize a high-volume publishing operation. The role enforces editorial and publishing standards, manages growth initiatives, implements publishing and monetization best practices, and improves the systems and processes that make the Reviews desk more efficient and effective.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in digital journalism.
At least 3 years of experience managing writers, editors, producers, or other editorial staff.
Exceptional project-management and organizational skills, including experience running a high-volume publishing operation or complex editorial calendar.
Strong people-management skills, including setting expectations, providing actionable feedback, coaching writers, and managing performance.
Strong understanding of digital publishing workflows, CMS tools, SEO, audience development, analytics, and content-distribution strategy.
Ability to translate multiple editorial and business priorities into a realistic, clearly prioritized publishing plan.
Strong understanding of evergreen content management, content refreshes, tentpole planning, and fast-turn digital publishing.
Sound editorial judgment and commitment to WIRED’s standards, editorial independence, and reader trust.

Nice To Haves

Background in high-volume commerce content, such as product reviews, buying guides, deals, or other service journalism.

Responsibilities

Directly manage WIRED Reviews writers and producers, setting expectations for assignments, output, deadlines, testing, reporting, earnings, and editorial quality; provide feedback, coaching, and career development.
Own the day-to-day Reviews editorial pipeline and track content status, deadlines, schedules, updates, risks, and earnings.
Edit Reviews content to improve monetization as needed and enforce standards for structure, accuracy, voice, usefulness, testing methodology, sourcing, disclosure, and copy quality.
Hold writers accountable for deadlines and production expectations, particularly around tentpoles, and identify capacity issues, bottlenecks, and resource needs.
Translate priorities from commerce, SEO, analytics, editorial, audience development, and other departments into editorial plans, assignments, schedules, and measurable deliverables.
Maintain and improve the Reviews editorial calendar, assignment systems, author trackers, update queues, and content-management tools, including AirTable.
Coordinate the evergreen update program, refreshing priority buying guides and reviews based on seasonality, product launches, audience demand, SEO recommendations, and business opportunities.
Drive timely deals and other commerce content, ensuring writers identify opportunities in their beats and meet agreed-upon output goals.
Plan and manage major shopping and editorial tentpoles, including Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday/Cyber Monday, gifting holidays, CES, and major product launches; prepare staffing, assignment, deadline, update, content-volume, handoff, and contingency plans.
Run planning and production meetings and communicate editorial priorities, workflow changes, deadlines, and expectations across the team.
Manage producers to ensure the quality of video and photography.
Maintain and improve editorial documentation, onboarding materials, production standards, and team workflows.
Identify recurring operational problems and develop improved processes, automation, or systems to address them.
Liaise between editors and writers to improve editing efficiency and manage editorial assignments for the content plan.