Executive Digital Director @FastCompany
Mansueto Ventures, New York, NY USA
Mansueto Ventures, publisher of Inc. Business Media and Fast Company
Duration: Full Time
ABOUT THE ROLE
Fast Company is looking for an executive digital director that will help the editor-in-chief in setting the tone, vision, and ambition of Fast Company’s journalism. They will be responsible for overseeing Fast Company’s digital journalism, directing the deputy editors of fastcompany.com and a team of senior editors to produce daily coverage and online features. The executive digital director will be a conduit to the product, design, engineering, and digital ad sales teams, helping roadmap and communicate digital strategy and initiatives across the organization.
Salary range: $155,000 - $222,000 + bonus eligible. Compensation may vary based on relevant experience, skills, industry, and education.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
- Collaborate with editor-in-chief to set the overall vision for Fast Company.
- Create groundbreaking editorial initiatives that will increase the visibility and ambition of the title’s journalism
- Work across different divisions to help achieve editorial and business goals
- Serve as a conduit to the product, design, engineering, and digital ad sales teams, and provide the ad sales team with content ideas as needed for RFPs, proposals, etc.
- Develop and communicate digital strategy and initiatives across the organization.
- Develop, in collaboration with editor-in-chief, career development and enrichment for editorial staff
- Help set and drive culture for Fast Company’s editorial operations, making sure they align with Mansueto Ventures' values.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Ten+ years of experience assigning and editing stories for a daily website, and at least five+ years in a management role.
- Exceptional skills identifying and packaging imaginative, innovative stories that rise above the Internet din.
- Excellent writing and editing skills, and outstanding news judgment
- Experience working with video, audio, and social teams to collaborate on daily/weekly output and longer-term projects with journalistic ambition that also serve business and audience goals.
- Strong interest in and previous experience in business news, and especially in Fast Company’s editorial pillars, including technology, creativity, design, social impact, work-life(leadership),and news.
- Deeply sourcing in business news, and have contacts and relationships at the companies and institutions Fast Company regularly covers.
- Track record of accuracy and ethics
About Mansueto Ventures
Mansueto Ventures’s mission is to empower and inspire innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders through compelling journalism, diverse conversations, and creative initiatives that celebrate excellence in business.
Our company’s greatest asset is our employees. Our workplace strives for excellence, respect, integrity, inclusion, and transparency in all we do. We value feedback from all corners of the organization, and we collaborate with colleagues to craft company policies and benefits.
At Mansueto Ventures, we prioritize diversity. We celebrate difference and try to embed it into every aspect of our workplace. We are committed to providing equal opportunity employment to all individuals regardless of race, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, citizenship, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.