Global Director of Editorial Operations, GQ

Job Description

Location:

New York, NY

Global Director of Editorial Operations, GQ/Pitchfork

Global GQ and Pitchfork are seeking an experienced editorial operations leader to help project manage and lead all editorial operations for the GQ and Pitchfork editorial teams, ensuring all projects are executed strategically and efficiently.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing editorial budgets, leading editorial teams and executing multi-platform content strategies in complex matrix environments. Candidates should be skilled problem‑solvers, extremely organized, and strong people managers with excellent ability to help a large editorial team prioritize across multiple projects, work streams and deadlines. This role is focused on supporting all operational elements of the editorial team, including: building optimal organizational structures, managing editorial budgets, ensuring all content is delivered on deadline, coordinating across cross‑functional teams including but not limited to Commercial Revenue, Marketing, Commerce, Finance and HR, and navigating transformational change as needed.

The Global Director of Editorial Operations directly manages several operations team members dedicated to GQ and Pitchfork. In addition, the person in this role will work collaboratively with a global Content Operations team and will support the Global Editorial Director with managing GQ’s global team and Pitchfork’s US‑based team.

Candidates should have a strong entrepreneurial spirit, investment in mentoring and fostering growth, excitement for working in a fast‑paced media environment and passion for the worlds that GQ and Pitchfork cover: fashion, menswear, music and music criticism, film, television, internet culture, sports, and more.

This role reports to the Global Editorial Director.

• Work closely with GQ and Pitchfork leaders to build, effectuate and operationalize editorial strategy; support leadership with communicating editorial strategy to all internal stakeholders.
• Partner with editorial leadership to ensure clear editorial programming plans are developed across all platforms to deliver on editorial KPIs and strategic goals.
• Oversee all editorial project management, including building clear workflows for print, digital, video and events content production; leading regular team production meetings; creating project plans and deadlines for all editorial endeavors; and partnering across departments to distribute all content across editorial channels.
• Oversee and manage all content and OPEX budgets for global GQ and Pitchfork, ensuring resources are adequately allocated according to editorial priorities and content strategy; oversee all editorial cost management, communicate all budget targets to internal stakeholders, and partner with Finance and People teams to manage budget goals.
• Build and manage content rights management processes; ensure editorial teams are securing and tracking the required rights for content prior to publication; oversee editorial contract and release management in partnership with Business Affairs team; ensure all editorial team members are trained on content rights expectations on a regular basis.
• Support Global Editorial Director with leading GQ global content strategy and managing global content team; communicate global priorities, wins and identify strategic solutions as needed.
• Act as primary editorial point of contact for Revenue partners, collaborating on revenue‑driving initiatives to find innovative solutions and developing new opportunities, communicating editorial strategies to maximize monetization, and partnering with editorial teams to execute all editorial deliverables for revenue‑driving initiatives.
• Partner with HR to support team growth, manage organizational change, oversee performance management and cascade company policies, guidelines, and expectations as needed; lead editorial hiring process, supporting editorial managers through recruitment, hiring and onboarding.
• Take a lead role in helping shape, refine, implement, and iterate on both the global editorial structure and team structures by market.
• Establish and maintain…