Editor – RealSimple.com, NYC

Real Simple magazine is seeking a creative, motivated editor with a strong web and print service journalism background to shape and direct its web site, realsimple.com and to supervise the AOL Organizing channel.

The editor will be responsible for directing the look and feel, functionality, and content for , as well as its close interaction with the magazine’s editorial and marketing departments.

Specific responsibilities include:

– Define a creative direction for the site that responds directly to the needs and concerns of the Real Simple reader

– Maintain a leadership position in Real Simple’s competitive category, including building traffic and awareness online

– Oversee all aspects of site design, look and feel, functionality, and editorial content development, from story planning through production and QA

– Develop content packages and new site functionality with an emphasis on providing practical, useful solutions that visitors to the site don’t get from magazine.

– Maintain a close relationship with the Real Simple print editors and brand marketers to represent the Real Simple brand creatively and cohesively

– Supervise staff of three

Required qualifications:

– 8+ years professional editing and writing experience – a combination of print and online is preferred – with a strong background in service journalism

– Highly creative. Capable of conceiving big-picture ideas and executing them on deadline and with attention to detail

– Strong story-editing and display-copy-writing skills

– Sensitivity and imagination regarding ways in which content from a print brand may be best presented and enhanced online, so as to exploit the flexibility and particular benefits of the medium while preserving voice and brand identity

– Strength in identifying a publication’s core audience and reaching out to them through another medium

– Understanding of web publishing, including databases, search applications, e-mail newsletters

– Must have familiarity with Vignette or similar content management system.

If interested, please apply here:
http://jobs.brassring.com/en/asp/tg/cim_home.asp?partnerid=391&siteid=5101&codes=NXXX,47569BR

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