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Condé Nast lists this Director, Newsletter Strategy & Email Operations opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Condé Nast is a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 32 territories through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit and Wired, among others.
Job Description
Location: New York, NY
Condé Nast is seeking a Director, Newsletter Strategy & Email Operations. This is a key leadership role in Audience Strategy within Content Operations. Newsletter and email strategies at Condé Nast are fast evolving, and we require a bold leader to lead newsletter transformation. This person will bring confident strategies, guide editorial teams, pivot fast, and champion newsletter and email at Condé Nast globally. Condé Nast’s approach to newsletters is evolving from considering email as a distribution platform to conceiving of newsletters as editorial products that delight readers and meet audience needs. Our brands are growing their direct-relationship audiences and email provides both relationships, and a stable source of referrals to sites. Future-facing email strategies protect the consumer’s inbox, drive all Unified KPIs, create community (through call-and-response Q&As) and convert and retain paying subscribers (via premium newsletters). Condé Nast’s email strategy must also evolve, with a focus on email acquisition, a contact strategy to prevent churn and unsubs from email/newsletter channels, and a single brand voice for the channel. The Director, Newsletter Strategy & Email Operations will partner with the marketing and lifecycle teams to ensure the highest quality of inbox experiences that match our brands.
This Role Has Influence And Impact
The role guides and sets strategy in partnership with brand teams
This role must influence laterally: tight alignment with the lifecycle team, marketing and brand teams on a single inbox experience and brand voice
Works with product to expedite newsletter and email capabilities globally
Influences partnerships with platforms such as Substack
This person manages an Email Ops team, which oversees email set up and delivery for emails that are sent via our Email Service Provider, and two newsletter strategists.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Leads newsletter strategy for Condé Nast globally, working with brand teams to grow audience, community and revenue
Leads newsletter strategies that will drive engagement, traffic, subs, retention and commerce, confidently guiding brand-specific strategies
Leads the email transformation
Leads the Email Ops
Work with brands: with Global Editorial Directors, Heads of Editorial Content, Aud Dev to create the best brand-specific strategies. At times, this role will challenge assumptions and push new and innovative strategies
Propose, test and guide internal talent to author / anchor newsletters, giving confident opinions and / or data-backed feedback on the voices that with best foster reader-writer relationships
Partner with the lifecycle, subs & memberships, commerce, advertising teams to ensure value for audiences that will drive revenue
Newsletter platforms & partnerships: Write the playbook for, and expand on, network strategy for off-platform newsletters and newsletter communities
Elaborate on subscriber-only newsletter playbook
Tight alignment with the lifecycle team on what communications our newsletter signups and subscribers get, and when.
Essential Skills & Requirements
Builds trust with key stakeholders including Edit, Product, Revenue
Thought leadership within Audience Strategy & Content Operations
Entrepreneurial thinking
Exceptional data storyteller with strong presentation skills
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Strong influencing skills and ability to turn recommendations into reality
Bold in challenging assumptions, pivoting fast when necessary
Deep understanding of email analytics
Deep understanding of email operations
In-depth experience of audience strategies, publisher trends and revenue lines
Experience of managing international teams is a guide advantage
Experience of living or working internationally is a plus
A second language is not essential but an advantage (we publish in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese)
The expected base salary range for this position is from $145,000-$155,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education.
Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
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