Associate Editor, Food & Wine

Job Overview
Food & Wine is looking for an Associate Editor to join our Food team. This editor will help create recipes, cooking stories, product tests, trend pieces, social videos, and service‑driven food coverage across print, digital, social, and video.

What you’ll do
In this role, you’ll brainstorm, research, report, write, edit, and package content for Food & Wine. You’ll work closely with editors, the test kitchen, photo and video teams, social teams, recipe developers, contributors, chefs, and other partners to bring food stories and recipes from idea to publication. You’ll help maintain high standards for accuracy, clarity, authority, and visual storytelling while also thinking creatively about how food content travels across various platforms.

Key responsibilities

30%: Pitch, report, write, and edit food stories, recipes, headnotes, cooking explainers, product tests, and trend pieces. Work with the test kitchen and developers to test, edit, and publish recipes.

30%: Shepherd recipe, taste test, cooking technique, and food explainer videos from conception to publication, including pitching concepts, shaping editorial angles, writing scripts or talking points, preparing production notes, reviewing cuts, and ensuring final assets meet standards.

30%: Collaborate with photo, art, video, social, and editorial teams to package food content across print, digital, newsletter, and social platforms. Track schedule, manage pipeline, deliver on time, develop social‑first food ideas, and help translate authority into engaging short‑form video.

10%: Communicate with editors, test kitchen staff, studio teams, chefs, contributors, vendors, and PR contacts. Represent at events, tastings, and press opportunities as needed.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Required Experience

2‑4 years of relevant experience in food media, digital publishing, magazines, recipe development, test kitchens, restaurants, culinary production, or equivalent.

Experience editing recipes, recipe headnotes, service journalism, or food features is a bonus.

Experience developing or supporting food video content for social, digital, or editorial platforms, including collaborating with producers, editors, culinary teams, and appearing on camera.

Desired skills and abilities

Strong cooking skills and deep curiosity about food, recipes, ingredients, techniques, restaurants, trends, cultures, and cuisines.

Excellent writing, editing, reporting, and communication skills.

Organizational skills, able to utilize project management software to track assignments (platforms like Airtable, Asana, Jira, or Monday).

Other details
Hybrid 3x a week (Birmingham). In‑office expectations allow up to 2 days remote per week. Travel required approximately 5%.

Equal Opportunity Statement
It is the policy of People Inc to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing hr@people.inc.

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