Market Editor

Job Description

As the leading independent modern media company, Vox Media ignites conversations and influences culture. Across digital, podcasts, TV, streaming, live events, and print, we tell stories that affect our audience's daily lives and entertain as much as they inform.

Our portfolio features influential and respected editorial properties including Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Cut, Eater, Vulture, The Strategist, Polygon, SB Nation, Intelligencer, Curbed, Grub Street and Recode. Off-platform, the Vox Media Podcast Network offers one of the largest collections of popular podcasts, and Vox Media Studios produces and distributes the award-winning nonfiction shows. Powered by innovative technology that scales quality, the Chorus publishing platform and Concert advertising marketplace answer the always-changing needs of modern audiences, creators and marketers.

Vox Media has been named one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies in Media,” an Inc. “Company of the Year,” Digiday’s “Best Company for Parents,” and one of the Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign.

Curbed is looking for its first market editor, a passionate writer and curious shopper who will serve as an in-house authority on the latest and best home trends. Curbed readers look for affordable, sustainable, and high-quality products with style, and our market editor will be tasked with helping readers understand not only what they should buy, but why and how. The ideal candidate has a sharp eye and great taste, and thrives on collaborating with our team and meeting new people at public events.

Across eight local sites and our flagship, Curbed covers homes, not just finding and furnishing them, but the issues that affect the neighborhoods and cities where we live. The market editor will use that broader context to lead our shopping coverage, tying in to columns like House Calls and series like On Trend, asking critical questions to help our readers make astute and informed shopping decisions. They’ll also have fun, responding to timely trends and pop culture moments to give our readers the fullest picture of what home shopping is all about.

Primary responsibilities

• Pitch, write, assign, and edit shopping stories across Curbed sites
• Keep finger on the pulse of home trends, key players, brands, launches, and industry news at both the national and local levels
• Develop market-led editorial franchises that build reader loyalty
• Working across teams, ensure that Curbed publishes or updates 3-6 shopping stories each week
• Lead team shopping meetings and own follow-up; contribute to various editorial meetings and brainstorms
• In collaboration with photo and art directors and top editors, produce two shopping guides each year
• Represent Curbed at market appointments and develop relationships with designers, brands, retailers, and PR representatives to enhance story quality
• Identify and assign freelancers to cover shopping across Curbed sites
• Work alongside engagement editor to optimize readers’ shopping experience and to track analytics to ensure network-wide shopping traffic goals are met
• Serve as point person and collaborator for Vox Media-wide commerce initiatives

The ideal candidate

• Has 4+ years experience writing about shopping or design; we’re open to what this means for you
• Is a strong writer with a clear-eyed perspective and the ability to write in a knowing and smart, accessible voice (bonus points for wit) who can take direction and implement strategy
• Has excellent taste that jives with the Curbed brand and existing coverage
• Is an experienced line editor and can communicate with writers clearly and empathetically
• Is reasonably fluent in the world of home design and decor and is, most importantly, passionate about learning more
• Keeps up with trends as a way of being, has a keen sense of what’s cool, what brands are buzzy, and also what’s timeless
• Tries new things, researches obsessively, and is thoughtful about recommendations
• Is a strong communicator intent on stewarding a collaborative work environment—and understands that organization is key to such an environment
• Is excited to use their strong communication skills to develop relationships both with industry-related people and across Vox Media
• Has a basic understanding of SEO and experience with social media platforms
• Has a passion for, and ideally an understanding, of Curbed, and an enthusiasm for sincerely helping people live better at home
• Bonus: Has a basic understanding of the affiliate revenue world and can comfortably take in audience shopping insights without compromising editorial integrity
• Bonus: Industry, designer, retailer, or PR connections

*This role is a part of the Vox Media Union, represented by the Writers Guild of America, East.

About working at Vox Media:

This is a permanent, full-time position with excellent benefits—including flexible hours and generous parental leave. Vox Media strives to provide comprehensive healthcare options for our employees and to ensure that our healthcare and other benefits are LGBTQ-inclusive. You'll be joining a group of focused, hard-working, creative people who are passionate about doing work that's challenging and fun—and who strive to maintain a healthy work/life balance.

Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.