Editor In Chief, Bon Appétit & Epicurious

Bon Appétit is the award-winning No. 1 food brand dedicated to inspiring home cooks and restaurant obsessives alike. In recent years, it's redefined the food media landscape with its bold imagery, charismatic voice, and an eye toward trends and current events. From personality-driven cooking shows to in-depth reporting on this cultural moment, Bon Appétit gets to the heart of what it means to care about food today. The brand produces a monthly print magazine, three websites (Bon Appétit, Healthyish, and Basically), near-daily videos, a weekly podcast, a successful merch store, and frequent events. Bon Appétit reaches over 40M consumers monthly, including 21M digitally, 15M across social platforms, and a total of 6.5M in print. Epicurious is the definitive guide to home cooking. With 25 years of editorial content and over 35,000 recipes in its archive, Epicurious offers an unparalleled depth and breadth of cooking resources. In 2019, Epicurious launched Well Equipped, a vertical and newsletter dedicated to shopping content for food lovers. That content, which ranges from a love letter to tinned fish to rigorously-tested reviews of cast-iron skillets and blenders, made Epi among the top revenue-driving commerce brands in the company. This year, Epicurious has responded to our current cooking moment by focusing on sustainability and affordability. The brand reaches 10 million monthly viewers on its site, 4.7 across social platforms, and 2.7 million on its YouTube channel, which saw the most significant growth of any Conde Nast channel in 2019.
Job Description
Location:
New York, NY
Editor In Chief, Bon Appétit & Epicurious
Condé Nast is seeking a highly experienced Editor-in-Chief to lead the Bon Appétit and Epicurious brands. We're looking for a visionary leader and brand steward who will be responsible for the editorial direction, brand strategy, audience development, operations, and all content and brand extensions. You will partner with colleagues in sales, marketing, finance, and other divisions to develop and execute a robust business strategy that is aligned with the editorial vision and brand values, and you will lead teams to conceptualize, execute, and deliver original, engaging, creative content across platforms.
You should have extensive experience managing content creation, brand strategy, and operations across digital, social, video, audio, events/experiences, and licensing partnerships, as well as experience working collaboratively within a matrixed organization. You should have a proven track record of building and leading teams with diverse backgrounds.
This role reports to Condé Nast's Global Chief Content Officer and is based in New York City.
Primary Responsibilities:
Editorial & Brand Strategy

• Grow and guide the success of two powerhouse food media brands
• Define editorial strategies for the brands that are culturally relevant and socially aware
• Ideate and conceptualize content that speaks to a diverse and highly engaged audience
• Execute these editorial strategies to deliver content through all channels
• Build audiences for both brands by partnering with teams to drive audience growth and engagement

Content Delivery & Operations

• Oversee content production on all channels and platforms while maintaining the highest quality journalism
• Assign and top-line edit content across all platforms
• Partner with operations to keep production and monthly closes on time and according to schedule
• Work in tandem with Condé Nast leadership team to produce content that meets Condé Nast standards and expectations

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead a diverse team of over 40 highly skilled editors, writers, recipe developers, creatives, digital experts, and managers, including dotted-line management of embedded team members from centralized functions
• Directly manage senior team members and lead by example in inspiring, developing, motivating, and uniting the team.
• Prioritize diversity and inclusivity in all people practices including hiring, management, employee development, performance management, and team morale/culture.
• Foster an environment of collaboration, entrepreneurialism to overcome creative challenges while simultaneously meeting business objectives
• Collaborate with Finance, HR, and other business partners on annual budgets, brand P&L, and hiring/staffing plans

Business Development & Marketing

• Partner with marketing/consumer revenue teams on subscription strategies, e-commerce opportunities, and events that are within Bon Appétit's and Epicurious' brand standards
• Work with relevant stakeholders in sales, marketing, video, licensing, and other divisions to pursue revenue opportunities that are aligned with brand and editorial values and standards, including sponsored or branded content, affiliate and e-commerce revenue, events, strategic partnerships, and brand licensing, among others.
• Represent the brands at internal and external events
• Work with the communications and marketing teams to develop press and marketing strategies for the brands, with an emphasis on growing brand recognition and affinity

Desired Skills & Qualifications:

• 10-15+ years of experience in a senior editorial role, leading teams across digital, video, and print media
• Strong business acumen, excellent editing and proofreading skills, networking and interpersonal skills, and the ability to guide a team towards business goals.
• Demonstrated success in producing culturally relevant content for diverse communities
• A flair for storytelling and a proven track record of driving culture and identifying trends & topics to cover - and determining the platforms on which they should run.
• An entrepreneurial mind-set, with a focus on new opportunities for stories and areas for audience growth.
• Proven history of delivering exceptional content in a multi-channel environment, with an innovative approach to using digital tools.
• Experience of working closely with business teams to identify and collaborate on revenue-generating projects, whether commercial or consumer.
• Demonstrated experience in building a culture of trust and inclusion and leading through organizational and cultural change
• Strong interpersonal communications skills and the ability to work effectively with colleagues across myriad departments and differing levels of seniority.
• Confident and experienced public speaker.

The expected base salary range for this position is from $250,000 -$350,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates may also be eligible to receive discretionary bonus compensation.
What happens next?
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.
Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.