Deputy Editor, AD

AD is the international authority on design and architecture. AD provides exclusive access to the world’s most beautiful homes and the fascinating people who live in them, bringing its audience a wealth of information on architecture and interior design, art and antiques, travel destinations, and extraordinary products; its AD100 list of top architects and designers is one of the industry’s most relied-upon indexes of talent.

Every day AD inspires millions of affluent readers to redesign and refresh their lives through a multiplatform presence that includes print and digital editions, social media, signature events, and the brand’s website,

New York, NY

Architectural Digest is seeking a Deputy Editor to help shape and execute the editorial future of the brand across every platform. Reporting to the Global Editorial Director, this senior editorial leader will identify, develop, and champion the ambitious ideas and signature franchises that define AD, ensuring the brand's strongest journalism, talent, and storytelling extend across the print and digital newsroom, including AD PRO, newsletters, social, video, commerce, and emerging platforms.

The Deputy Editor will translate the Global Editorial Director’s vision into clear editorial priorities, raise the caliber and ambition of work across the organization, and serve as a senior mentor to editors and writers. The role has particular management responsibility for AD PRO, developing its team and ensuring consistently strong editorial execution.

• Work with the Global Editorial Director to set and execute the editorial priorities, stories, themes, and cultural conversations that define AD.
• Conceive and lead development of signature editorial initiatives, packages, and recurring franchises that can extend across the print and digital newsroom, video, and social.
• Identify opportunities for editorial innovation, new storytelling formats, and audience experiences that strengthen the brand’s authority and relevance.
• Ensure a consistently ambitious, distinctive, and high-quality editorial point of view across the brand.

• Lead major editorial ideas from development through execution across platforms, maximizing their reach, relevance, and impact.
• Partner with audience, digital, video, social, and other leads to use performance insights and analytics to inform editorial strategy and maximize the reach and impact of AD’s journalism.
• Develop editorial initiatives that contribute to audience growth, including engagement, subscriptions, video views, newsletter growth, and other key performance metrics.
• Build relationships with AD’s international editorial teams, sharing ideas, talent, franchises, and opportunities across markets where relevant.

• Serve as a senior editorial leader across the organization, providing direction, feedback, coaching, and mentorship while encouraging ambitious thinking, strong editorial judgment, collaboration, and accountability.
• Conceive, assign, edit, and write high-impact editorial projects while helping editors and writers develop their strongest work.

• Work closely with business and revenue leaders to identify editorially appropriate opportunities around major franchises, events, partnerships, memberships, commerce, and other initiatives that can drive audience and revenue growth.
• Protect AD’s editorial independence and standards, ensuring that commercial opportunities support the brand’s editorial authority, credibility, and point of view.
• Represent AD externally through speaking engagements, industry events, partnerships, and other brand opportunities.

• 10+ years of…