Deputy Food & Wine Editor

About the role

The Deputy Food & Wine Editor combines beat leadership with senior editorial responsibility. You’ll lead and shape food and wine coverage across print and digital, while also serving as a trusted editor across the magazine.

Responsibilities

• Shape the magazine’s food coverage with a clear, high-level editorial lens, ensuring stories are conceived for both print and digital pathways and reflect the magazine’s aspirational, design-conscious sensibility
• Build and maintain relationships with chefs, restaurateurs, sommeliers and makers, staying deeply connected to what’s happening now and what’s next
• Assign, edit and develop contributors
• Pitch, write and edit at a high level
• Lead digital extensions of food coverage
• Own major food-related initiatives
• Collaborate cross-departmentally

Requirements

• 7+ years of food journalism or high-level lifestyle journalism, with senior-level editing responsibility and significant food and wine experience
• Demonstrated ability to shape structure, sharpen angles and elevate writers
• Experience leading or anchoring a beat with original reporting
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Experience developing and managing junior editors and freelancers
• Strong visual sense and experience working alongside art and photo teams
• Digital fluency and comfort thinking across formats and platforms
• A well-developed food network

Qualifications

• You’ll play a leading role in shaping food journalism in a fast-evolving luxury market
• You’ll work on ambitious, well-packaged stories that balance reporting, service and visual storytelling
• You’ll work closely with a committed creative team, producing ambitious lifestyle journalism
• You’ll contribute to a trusted regional brand with a long-standing editorial legacy
• You’ll work in a place where editorial judgment, visual storytelling and longform are central

Skills

• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods and use hands for typing and editing
• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds occasionally
• Visual and auditory ability to review content and attend meetings

Benefits

Full-time new hires: Eligible to participate in all Company benefit plans, including:

• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance, and HSA
• Subject to plan terms
• Eligibility for company-paid benefits such as life insurance & EAP and employee-paid benefits such as short-term disability
• PTO – Earned on Accrual Basis
• Company-Paid Holidays
• 401(k)

Pay

Salary commensurate with experience

Schedule

Full-time, on-site