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Wine Enthusiast was born from a passion to bring a fine wine experience to the everyday. Our love for wine goes beyond the bottle. We value family and community. We believe wine is a conduit that brings people together and that every pour brings celebration to life’s moments, big and small. We’re a family-owned business with a big heart, led and run by wine lovers working together to create new and better ways for you to explore and enjoy the exciting world of wine.

Role Overview

The ideal candidate is a leader and unifier; a decisive architect of content true to the tone, look, feel and direction of the brand voice. The magazine director should have the innovativeness of a writer with the organizational focus of an operations manager. The person in this role will be a supervisor, mentor and guide to the print magazine team. They will manage the print magazine editorial team and contributors.

Key Responsibilities

The key focuses of the role are quality editorial output, subscriber growth, brand awareness, and new content packages implemented on budget in alignment with Wine Enthusiast’s mission and core values. Additionally, the magazine director assists with creating brand-appropriate endemic and non-endemic content partnerships; talent acquisition; profitability; and client relations.

1. Setting and implementing editorial direction, themes, redesigns, messaging in alignment with Publisher and VP of Content
2. Overseeing editorial calendar to meet content needs, goals and frequency requirements, including planning and approving assignments for writers and editors and pagination oversight
3. Managing editorial projects and leading correlating meetings to achieve results, including controlling assignments, writing, editing and production needs
4. Maintaining editorial and style guidelines and tone of voice for the brand, ensuring that all content produced falls in line with this style
5. Running weekly meetings with print magazine staff/key editorial contributors to troubleshoot issues, provide clarity on direction, discuss scheduling
6. Addressing production and editor staff issues as they arise
7. Mentoring, coaching and supervising all print magazine team members including protecting team morale via education, team building exercises, etc.
8. Managing the magazine production budget, meeting with VP of Content as needed to ensure budgeting goals are met as well as maintain monthlies for financial health and adjustment considerations
9. Acting as editorial representation in sales meetings when requested/needed, selling the editorial brand and supporting programs presented by sales team
10. Assisting in PR initiatives/concepts as a content point person as needed, in addition to maintaining a social presence that supports the brand on social media
11. Representing the brand publicly as requested/needed via trade and consumer panels as well as attendance at key trade events and key market travel to remain on top of industry trends and techniques
12. Remaining on top of trends and technique in industry, including digital education via webinars, seminars, conferences academic programs
13. Overseeing production and approval of magazine’s digital issues (eMagazines, Apple News+, etc)

Please provide a link to an online portfolio (including password if necessary) and resume.

Location

This position requires a hybrid work schedule and candidate will work onsite at our Valhalla headquarters.

Unlimited PTO, Full Medical, Dental and Vision benefits, 401(K) Match, FSA & Dependent Care FSA, Pet Discount Plan, Employee Discount, GymPass, optional Wine Tasting Class participation, dynamic and collaborative work culture.

Learn more about us

Wine Enthusiast Companies is a Certified B Corporation and the ultimate source of innovation and information around wine. Founded in 1979 by Adam and Sybil Strum, the company is composed of Wine Enthusiast Commerce and Wine Enthusiast Media. Embodying the commerce side, the Wine Enthusiast Shop provides premium wine-lifestyle products, reaching millions of consumers globally via direct mail, an e-commerce site, and a business-to-business division. Representing the media side, Wine Enthusiast magazine is an award-winning print publication and online resource that showcases wine news, food trends, and more than 25,000 ratings and reviews annually. By the end of 2023, WineEnthusiast.com reached 4.5 million monthly page views and is the industry leader with the most traffic of any wine media website. Wine Enthusiast events include the annual premier Wine Star Awards gala. Together, Wine Enthusiast Companies is the indisputable hub for everything wine. We bring wine to life.

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