Associate Editorial Director, Parents

Job Description

Job Title
Associate Editorial Director, Parents

About Your Role

Dotdash Meredith is looking for a Commerce Associate Editorial Director to oversee the editorial strategy and manage the day-to-day workflow of the Parents commerce team. They ensure the smooth publishing of new content, article updates, and implementation of affiliate partner links. Our team creates shopping content across a wide range of parenting categories-from strollers and car seats to toys, clothing, and more. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in digital media production as well as commerce content and is comfortable managing teams and communicating with stakeholders. This role reports into the Commerce Group Director for Health.

About Your Contributions:
• Manage a team of editors, working with them to identify new content ideas and update existing articles, making sure we are adhering to brand voice and style.
• Manage progress toward monthly and quarterly team goals, including content production, budget, revenue, product testing, and tentpole events.
• Analyze traffic and revenue and make both editorial and data-driven decisions based on your knowledge.
• Prioritize day-to-day needs alongside special projects, and support your team's goals, while also taking into account organizational priorities and changes.
• Keep pulse on industry trends and competition.
• Participate in regular meetings with key stakeholders to review metrics, discuss content improvement ideas, and provide a progress status on the editorial roadmap.
• Use editorial judgment to develop and oversee implementation of content features within content, such as pull quotes, charts and graphs, images, and data tables.

About You:
• 8+ years of experience in the digital media space, with 2+ years management experience, commerce experience required
• Passion for and/or knowledge of the parenting and commerce space
• Experience with SEO best practices and tools and how they relate to content
• Proficiency in project management tools like Excel, Google Sheets, or Airtable
• A track record of growth in your past roles
• Experience scaling copy and editorial operations in a high-growth environment
• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Bachelor's degree required

We expect Associate Editorial Directors to apply these competencies to their role:
• Decision Quality: Make good and timely decisions that keep the needs of their vertical moving forward. This may happen in the absence of complete information but one may call upon analysis, experience, and judgment to make these decisions.
• Balance Stakeholders: Anticipate and understand the needs and expectations of your stakeholders by balancing all interests, considering all factors when making decisions, and act fairly despite conflicting demands.
• Business Insight: Keep up with current and possible future policies, practices, and trends within the organization, the competition, and the marketplace. Use this knowledge to guide actions.
• Manage Complexity: Make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems. Ask the right questions, accurately analyze situations, and acquire data from multiple/diverse sources to solve problems.
• Develops Talent: Develop your team to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals. Prioritize coaching, providing feedback, and giving stretch opportunities. Aligns employee career development goals with the organizational objectives and encourages people to accept developmental moves.
• Collaborate: Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Balance own interests while being fair to others, partners with others to get work done, and credits others for their contributions/accomplishments.
• Manages Conflict: Handle conflict situations effectively. Step up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities. Facilitate the integration of diverse views, common ground, or acceptable alternatives to settle disputes equitably.
• Action Oriented: Readily take action on new challenges, identify and seize new opportunities. Display a can-do attitude and step up to handle tough issues.
• Resourcefulness: Secure and deploy resources effectively and efficiently. Apply resources to get things done, manage multiple activities, and get the most out of limited resources.
• Optimize Work Processes: Know the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement. Identify and/or create processes that allow managing from a distance, creates efficient workflows, and seeks ways to improve these processes.
• Directs Work: Provide direction, delegation, and remove obstacles to get work done. Monitor progress through dialogue and feedback loops; providing appropriate guidance and direction and intervening as needed to remove obstacles.
• Plan and Align: Plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. Set objectives and break them down into appropriate initiatives and actions. Stages these with the relevant milestones and schedules, while anticipating and adjusting effective contingency plans.
• Ensures Accountability: Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments. Follow through and ensure others do the same. Act with a clear sense of ownership and responsibility, design effective feedback loops and establish clear responsibilities and processes for monitoring work and measuring results.

Part of the Commerce Team spirit means embodying these core competencies:
• Manage Ambiguity: Deal comfortably with change and can decide/act without the total picture. Remains calm and productive while dealing constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes
• Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Self-Development: Actively seek new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels. Show a personal commitment to continuously improving, accepting stretch opportunities, and making the most of available development resources.

It is the policy of Dotdash Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing ddm.hr@dotdashmdp.com.

Pay Range
Salary: $85,680 - $122,400

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8e09q-3-144-116-159-42 in your application.