Editorial Director, Hot Luck
$110,000–$130,000 year
HybridNew York, United States
Job Summary
Develop and oversee Hot Luck's editorial vision, content strategy, and storytelling across all platforms, ensuring a cohesive brand voice reflecting food, music, hospitality, and live experiences. Lead the development of a year-round content ecosystem including newsletters, social video franchises, YouTube programming, and audio initiatives to drive engagement, ticket sales, and sponsorship revenue. Launch original content initiatives such as recurring social video series and radio programming while managing editorial staff, contributors, and production partners. Represent the brand at events, panels, and interviews, collaborating with the Editor in Chief and cross-functional teams to execute festival coverage and long-range brand affinity strategies. This hybrid role may be based in New York City or Austin, Texas, with approximately 15-25% travel required.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent work experience
- Entrepreneurial editorial leader with experience building modern media brands across platforms
- Comfortable developing long-range content strategies
- Launching new editorial products
- Managing teams and contributors
- Creating compelling stories that resonate across digital, social, video, audio, and live experiences
- Comfortable working closely with teams in both markets
- Traveling regularly to Austin throughout the year
- Increased travel during festival planning and execution periods
- Hybrid 3x a week- (New York, NY) In-office Expectations
- Fully remote with no in-office requirements, (might require coming into an office 1 or 2x a year)
- Experience launching or managing video-first content initiatives, including YouTube programming, social video series, or creator-led franchises
- Experience developing newsletters, audience engagement programs, and subscriber growth strategies
- Experience creating or overseeing podcasts, audio programming, radio shows, or other audio storytelling formats
- Experience working with sponsorship, branded content, and integrated marketing programs
- Experience in food, hospitality, music, entertainment, culture, or experiential event media
- Demonstrated success building audiences across multiple platforms and distribution channels
- 15%-25% travel required
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree preferred
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