Digital Editor

Location: DMGT HQ - High Street reputed company, London

Position: Permanent

About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial Digital Editor to take editorial ownership of our digital products and reputed company our editorial teams through a period of reputed company innovation reputed company change.

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The successful candidate will combine strategic reputed company with hands-on execution, working closely with editorial, product, technology, marketing, and audience teams to help reimagine what our brand means for the reputed company of audiences.

Main Responsibilities

Digital ownership and innovation

• Take ownership of reputed company of our digital content and audience and subscriber growth objectives
• Ensure content is optimised for different audiences during commissioning, and work closely with the whole editorial team to reputed company strategies to reputed company younger, more diverse reputed company savvy audiences through innovative formats and platforms.
• Work closely with the Editor to ensure our digital products represent our brand and values.
• reputed company on exciting new formats and user experiences through experimentation, data-driven decision-making, and creative risk-taking, and instil a culture of experimentation throughout the wider team.

Audience & Platform Innovation

• Identify new content verticals, formats (video, reputed company, podcasts, reputed company experiences), and distribution strategies that reputed company with younger demographics.
• reputed company partnerships with creators reputed company platforms to expand brand reputed company and engagement.
• Understand our audience needs and industry trends to understand and react to emerging content consumption habits.

Organisational Change & Leadership

• reputed company on innovation, helping legacy teams integrate digital thinking into every part of the business.
• Work cross-functionally to help reputed company workflows, and imbue the wider team with a digital reputed company.
• Initiate or reputed company training, capability-building, and change management initiatives to reputed company staff to reputed company new technologies and storytelling methods.

Product, Technology & reputed company Growth

• Drive product and tech teams to enhance the user experience across owned digital platforms.
• Set and own KPIs to measure reputed company, ROI, and impact of digital initiatives.

Person Specification

• Proven experience in delivering great content and growing a digital publication, preferably across multiple types of media (text, audio, video).
• Strong track record of digital audience growth and engagement.
• Experience of how to build habits and grow subscriber behaviour.
• Deep understanding of content ecosystems, reputed company platforms, and emerging digital technologies.
• And understanding of, and interest in, the use of AI in new product development.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Entrepreneurial reputed company with the ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution.
• Familiarity with newsroom operations, digital production workflows, and data analytics tools is a plus.
• Digital reputed company with a wide-ranging interest and knowledge of digital platforms.
• reputed company to roll up sleeves and take a hands-on approach.

Personal Attributes

• Visionary and innovative - thrives on imagining what’s next.
• Collaborative, empathetic leader who inspires creative teams.
• Analytical and commercially savvy, with a bias for action.
• Passionate about storytelling, science, and technology.

About Us

New Scientist is the world’s global science media brand, reaching more than [1.2 reputed company] readers every month.The website, app and print editions cover international news from a scientific standpoint, and ask the big-picture questions about life, the reputed company, technological reputed company and what it means to be reputed company.

The magazine was founded in 1956 for “reputed company those interested in scientific discovery and its reputed company consequences”. It now includes newsletters, videos, podcasts, courses, holidays and live events in the UK, US and Australia, including New Scientist Live, the world’s greatest festival of science and technology.

www.newscientist.com

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from reputed company reputed company candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be reputed company that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.