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Fortune seeks a chief strategic partnerships editor

Fortune is hiring a chief strategic partnerships editor to work on some of our most important franchises and journalism initiatives.

This is a leadership position that reports to Fortune’s Editor in Chief.

As chief strategic partnerships editor, you will straddle Fortune’s editorial and business departments, working with each to create packages that Fortune’s readers and clients both love.

This role works across all editorial platforms including digital, video, magazine, audio, virtual and live events.

You will:

  • Serve as a bridge between commercial interests and editorial leadership, answering ongoing questions, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring smooth communication between both teams.
  • Work with sales, marketing, conferences and editorial teams to collaborate on big, sponsorable ideas.
  • Create new storytelling formats that have potential to drive sponsorship and present them to clients on behalf of edit.
  • Manage a team to help execute sold campaigns.
  • Develop responses to multi-million-dollar RFPs that can achieve an advertiser’s goals while also funding ambitious journalism initiatives.
  • Oversee the execution of some of Fortune’s most storied franchises and brainstorm relevant brand extensions
  • Manage costs to ensure delivery of content packages, on time and under budget, and to hit and exceed revenue goals.

The ideal candidate will:

  • Have prior newsroom leadership and management experience
  • Feel comfortable speaking with advertisers about journalism initiatives and business topics
  • Have big ideas on ways to create high-impact journalism packages for large budgets and on a global scale
  • Be creative, entrepreneurial and collaborative

Fortune’s headquarters is in NYC, but our editorial team is based across time zones and international borders. We’re working remotely due to the pandemic. We encourage applicants between the coasts to apply.

A few of Fortune’s perks and benefits:

  • Flexible working hours and schedule
  • 22 vacation days, 11 paid holidays and an honor-based sick leave policy
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage (90% paid for individuals and families), plus a high-deductible health plan option where Fortune contributes to a Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • 401(k) plan
  • Generous parental leave
  • Dependent care/health care/commuter FSAs, and cell phone benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • A commitment to an open, inclusive and diverse work culture

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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