Company Profile

Company Description:

SHORT DESCRIPTION
The Food Network Magazine and The Pioneer Woman Magazine team is looking for a features editor to create fun, engaging features on star chefs, amazing kitchens, home trends, crafts and more.

FULL DESCRIPTION
Why Hearst Magazines?
Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and Oprah Daily. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.
But we’re more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels—print, digital, video, and social—with sophisticated content creation, distribution, and data capabilities. We create, package, and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.

Your Impact
Food Network Magazine and The Pioneer Woman Magazine, two of America’s best-selling magazines, are looking for a rising-star lifestyle editor and packaging whiz to create fun, engaging features on star chefs, amazing kitchens, home trends, crafts and more. The features editor will take stories from start to finish, working with Food Network talent and other contributors, then coordinating shoots with the photo department and planning layouts with designers. This editor should be an ideas machine who can dream up creative new ways to cover holidays and home, and should be able to fill our market pages with great finds. Food experience not required—but a love of food definitely is! Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree in English, journalism or a related field and at least seven years of experience at a consumer food or lifestyle magazine. 
 
What You Will Do:
• Produce and edit home and lifestyle stories for all sections of Food Network Magazine and The Pioneer Woman Magazine 
• Produce market / get-the-look pages for home and kitchen features 
• Develop relationships with Food Network talent and their representatives
• Create long-term plans for FN talent features
• Build and maintain a group of reliable freelance contributors 
• Build and maintain relationships with food-industry publicists, cookbook publishers and other contacts
• Help create and package special projects (books, SIPs, etc)
• Write engaging display copy
• Represent the brands on occasional ad sales calls
 
Who You Are:
• Excellent at brainstorming and generating creative, relevant story ideas
• Pro at packaging home, lifestyle and holiday features
• Deep knowledge of home, food and lifestyle market and trends
• Adept at working in a fast-paced environment
• Culinary experience not required, but a love of food definitely is
• At least seven years of consumer food or lifestyle magazine experience
• Have a bachelor’s degree in English, journalism or a related field