Editorial Leadership Position

5 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia beBeeDirector Full time $180,000 - $220,000

The role of Editorial Director is a high-level position responsible for the agency's editorial strategy and output. As a leader, you will provide direction to a multi-skilled team while developing new approaches to benefit clients.

This is both a management and hands-on role where your work challenges the status quo and helps clients push boundaries in their content marketing. You will have impressive editorial experience, ideally on both publisher and agency sides, with demonstrable business acumen across multimedia.

Responsibilities include delivering world-class content propositions and outputs, leading a diverse team, motivating, developing, and challenging them to perform at their best. You are also responsible for creating a collaborative atmosphere where everyone can create innovative ideas for clients.

The nature of this business requires flexibility, common sense, and versatility. While the specific content of the role is clearly defined, the demands placed on us by clients mean that this role will evolve over time and needs a 'can do' approach to picking projects up and making them happen.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Editorial Strategy & Direction
  • Lead the editorial direction of projects for clients' brands, defining both their creative and strategic direction
  • Produce strategically sound, creatively compelling editorial strategies
  • Deliver agenda-setting, socially-led editorial content
  • Develop proprietary ways of working and products
  • Editorial and Creative Skills and Experience
  • Help drive and create world-class content and ideas for clients' success
  • Maintain editorial integrity, quality, and effectiveness for clients
  • Assist in producing creatively-driven social ideas, ultimately delivering world-class campaigns with care and attention down to an executional level
  • Client Relationships & New business
  • Develop strong strategic relationships with senior clients, then leverage this relationship and industry expertise to have a maximum impact on clients' business
  • Work collaboratively with above-the-line and media agencies to develop platform-neutral, aligned always on.
  • Actively participate in and contribute to success in new business pitches
  • Leadership Skills and Experience
  • Coach and guide all editorial team members providing support, direction & learning opportunities
  • Provide thought leadership and set the agenda on social and editorial excellence and best practice

Your skills and experience:

  • At least 10 years of experience in an editorial or agency environment with an 'audience-first approach' to creating content.
  • Demonstrable experience managing similar responsibilities and working at senior management level.
  • You fit in a fast-paced culture and perform well under pressure and with tight deadlines.
  • Expert knowledge of social media marketing and keen interest in the rapidly changing cultural and social landscape. Strong understanding of how to orchestrate owned, earned and paid media. You have proven ability to work quickly and effectively across all platforms, web and social.

About the company:

We Are Social is a socially-led creative agency operating globally at the forefront of marketing and culture. We help brands immerse their stories in real conversations their audience has. We generate sharp strategies and inspiring campaigns based on social insights for forward-thinking brands.

We put social thinking at the centre of what we do. We connect people and brands in meaningful ways. We invest in continuous learning for our talent. We Are Social.

We value diversity of thought and experience at our company.

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