Senior Visuals Editor

Bon Appétit is the award-winning No. 1 food brand dedicated to inspiring home cooks and restaurant obsessives alike. In recent years, it’s redefined the food media landscape with its bold imagery, charismatic voice, and an eye toward trends and current events. From personality-driven cooking shows to in-depth reporting on this cultural moment, Bon Appétit gets to the heart of what it means to care about food today. The brand produces a monthly print magazine, three websites (Bon Appétit, Healthyish, and Basically), near-daily videos, a weekly podcast, a successful merch store, and frequent events. Bon Appétit reaches over 40M consumers monthly, including 21M digitally, 15M across social platforms, and a total of 6.5M in print. Epicurious is the definitive guide to home cooking. With 25 years of editorial content and over 35,000 recipes in its archive, Epicurious offers an unparalleled depth and breadth of cooking resources. In 2019, Epicurious launched Well Equipped, a vertical and newsletter dedicated to shopping content for food lovers. That content, which ranges from a love letter to tinned fish to rigorously-tested reviews of cast-iron skillets and blenders, made Epi among the top revenue-driving commerce brands in the company. This year, Epicurious has responded to our current cooking moment by focusing on sustainability and affordability. The brand reaches 10 million monthly viewers on its site, 4.7 across social platforms, and 2.7 million on its YouTube channel, which saw the most significant growth of any Conde Nast channel in 2019.

Job Description

Location:
New York, NY

The Senior Visuals Editor is responsible for curating and producing innovative visual content across platforms (including social, video, digital, print, experiential) that meets brand integrity and production quality standards, while remaining on schedule and on budget.

Primary Responsibilities:

Develop strong relationships with editorial leadership and team to understand visual/photo needs and orchestrate and prioritize projects accordingly.

Regularly review portfolios and proactively build relationships with agencies, photographers, and food and prop stylists to unearth new talent.

Pitch cross-platform ideas that ladder up to established brand identity and visual strategy.

Oversee all research, image selection, credits, and CMS upload/publication across platforms.

Partner with the Visuals Director in overseeing all aspects of cross-platform photo shoot production, ensuring the creative concept is upheld from brief to final delivery, including:

Curate photographer lists and create visual mood boards

Commission teams and liaise with agents, photographers, studios, stylists, hair/makeup, catering, and other vendors throughout the project

Create and maintain timelines, schedules, budgets, shot-lists, call-sheets, and other production documents—proactively sharing and communicating this information to all key stakeholders throughout the project

Lead on-set coordination: can lead a crew through a shot list in a timely manner, problem-solve when issues arise on set, and communicate clearly to help ensure the visual direction is executed successfully

Partner with colleagues in CNE to ensure appropriate synergy across photo and video production

Oversee the post-production process for lo-res and hi-res photo selection and final delivery. For self-shot photos (as needed), maintain editing, processing, retouching, color correcting, and archiving of all files in an organized manner.

Contribute to tracking and maintaining the photo budget across platforms, exercising sound judgment in when to escalate to Visuals Director and/or Operations Director.

Secure contracts, photo fees, and usage rights for all images (produced and researched), in partnership with CN legal and business affairs teams.

Ensure all invoices are tracked and processed in a timely manner and that jobs are wrapped accurately and efficiently.

Contribute additional content across brands (e.g. social, video, writing, etc.) as assigned.

Requirements:

5-7+ years work experience in photo/visual production or related field, with a growing book of various image libraries, stock agencies, photographers, food stylists, etc.

Demonstrated experience in food and lifestyle photography and illustration, conceptual still-life, portrait, and documentary photography.

Strong editorial judgment with demonstrated experience developing visual stories across platforms, using detailed understanding of platform requirements.

Strong knowledge of Photoshop and Lightroom, with the ability to edit and adjust images for print and web

A highly motivated self-starter with proven ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

A meticulous eye for detail and impeccable organizational skills.

Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to navigate multiple stakeholders’ inputs, opinions, and decision-making styles.

A work-style that balances entrepreneurial spirit with operational rigor.

Ability to travel for various assignments and shoots

The expected base salary range for this position is from $85,000 - $113,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education.