Executive Editor, Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair holds a mirror to society by celebrating the best of global culture and investigating the forces that propel it. Pop culture can be profound and current affairs can be ridiculous. Our cast of characters is wide-ranging, wildly diverse, always exceptional, and quite often, with great style. In every medium, Vanity Fair harnesses the tensions of modern life.

About the Role:

Vanity Fair is seeking a bold, curious, and imaginative Executive Editor to help shape the future of one of the most iconic editorial brands in media. This role calls for a creative powerhouse with a deep appreciation for the many forms journalism can take—narrative features, news analysis, visual storytelling, audio, video, live events—and a sharp eye for the stories and voices that define our cultural moment.

We’re looking for a leader with big, ambitious ideas, and who sees connections between power and potential, influence and style, celebrity and substance. This editor will manage a team of top-level writers and editors and be expected to expand our roster of writers, nurture talent, and dream up editorial projects that push beyond traditional formats.

The Executive Editor will play a central role in story development and execution across platforms, ensuring that everything we publish—from deep investigations to quick-turn dispatches, newsletters to social-first features—feels urgent, stylish, and unmistakably Vanity Fair.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conceive and develop high-impact editorial ideas that span formats and platforms—print features, digital packages, podcasts, newsletters, video, and social
• Lead major cross-disciplinary projects, from cover stories to special issues to live event coverage
• Guide a team of editors and writers, overseeing everything from quick-turn political analysis to long-lead celebrity profiles
• Recruit and cultivate a diverse stable of writers—new and established—across beats and mediums
• Shape and refine story pitches, helping editors and writers find the most compelling angles and execution strategies
• Work closely with visuals, audio, social, events, and product teams to build out stories in immersive and innovative ways
• Bring a discerning editorial eye to every stage of story development—from conception and reporting to writing, packaging, and distribution
• Drive editorial excellence across all platforms with a focus on originality, voice, impact, and cultural relevance
• Monitor audience behavior, industry trends, and platform performance to inform strategy and experimentation
• Contribute to overall editorial vision in collaboration with the Editor-in-Chief and senior leadership

Who You Are:

• A highly creative editor with 10+ years of experience in high-level editorial roles, ideally across multiple mediums
• A cultural omnivore with deep fluency in politics, show business, media, fashion, tech, and society
• A collaborative leader with a track record of developing talent and managing complex editorial workflows
• A visionary who sees stories before they’re trending—and knows how to make them essential reading/viewing/listening
• Equally comfortable in a headline brainstorm or a cover concept meeting, and just as invested in a great tweet as a groundbreaking feature
• Adept at balancing daily publishing needs with long-lead planning and big-picture strategy
• Curious, courageous, and excited to take creative risks that feel true to the brand and surprising to the audience
• Experienced with audience development, analytics tools, and editorial planning across platforms

The expected base salary range for this position is from $170,000-$225,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education.