Condé Nast is home to Wired, Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and more of the world's most celebrated brands. Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) develops, produces and distributes video content across all of these brands. Our team creates high quality video programming experiences for viewers across every screen, and is led by industry veterans who have built video businesses with billions of monthly views. Since its inception in 2011, CNE has grown rapidly and has an extensive digital distribution network, with more than 37 million subscribers on Youtube and ranks in the top 20 in unique viewers in comScore's Top 100 Properties.

Job Description

Location:

New York, NY

Condé Nast is home to Wired, Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and more of the world's most celebrated brands. Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE) develops, produces and distributes video content across all of these brands. Our team creates high quality video programming experiences for viewers across every screen, and is led by industry veterans who have built video businesses with billions of monthly views. Since its inception in 2011, CNE has grown rapidly and has an extensive digital distribution network, with more than 62 million subscribers on Youtube and ranks in the top 20 in unique viewers in comScore's Top 100 Properties.

Overview: 

GQ is looking for a seasoned editorial leader to oversee its award-winning digital video programming for GQ globally. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of overseeing development and production in digital video (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, FAST, etc.) and excellent storytelling and editorial skills, including ideas for key celebrity and on-air talent partnerships. In addition, this individual will have a keen eye for ambitious projects, generating ideas that nurture and grow GQ’s culture-defining presence holistically.

The person in this role will be a strategic partner and liaison across the Condé Nast ecosystem, including GQ Editorial, Commercial, and Consumer organizations.

The position will report directly into Will Welch, GQ’s Global Editorial Director.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Lead, shape, and implement the programming strategy and vision for all of GQ’s global digital video channels, with a special focus on GQ US, GQ Sports, and British GQ’s  multi-faceted video slates, using a combination of strong data analysis and excellent editorial judgment.

• Establish an on-brand, cohesive look and feel of video content across platforms and across markets

• Uphold GQ sensibilities, quality standards, and values, as well as shepherd key talent relationships and innovation in service of building a robust content pipeline across existing and new platforms. 

• Drive storytelling development and execution, bringing fresh perspective to the slate of content across the GQ brands. 

• Oversee the programming planning process from start to finish, including establishing a video editorial calendar and forecasting the video programming slate to meet or exceed established KPIs and yield strong audience engagement, while driving cultural relevance. 

• Lead the development team in brainstorming sessions to generate ideas for new pilots and preexisting series, and create profitable IP from pre-production to post production; ideate video strategy around live events to drive audience and revenue as needed

• Serve as the primary video liaison across Editorial, Commercial, Consumer, and Business Affairs departments

• Oversee team of programming professionals, providing guidance, coaching, and leadership throughout the video lifecycle.

• Work closely with global video teams to share video best practices, expand successful franchises and build monetizable opportunities across global network.  Work closely with editorial, commercial, and consumer stakeholders to drive revenue growth through video opportunities; partner with commercial teams to establish workflows for programming plan reviews and creative collaboration, with the goal of creating commercial packages to maximize revenue opportunities.   

• Establish and upkeep processes that ensure creative excellence, including working closely with centralized video production and operations teams to establish workflows that deliver quality and exceptional storytelling, consistent communication, swift decision-making, efficient budgeting, scheduling, and deadline enforcement

• Review, edit, and approve preliminary and final treatments, outlines, shooting scripts, casting, production schedules, budgets, selects, graphics, music, rough cuts, fine cuts, final narration, and final versions of all applicable new programming.

• Ensure the pipeline of new content is well-maintained and that archival content i