Style Director

Job Description:

The Wall Street Journal and WSJ. Magazine are seeking a dynamic and experienced Style Director to supervise and run our fashion team in producing award-winning fashion editorial, fashion market editorial, and stepped-up fashion visual and social content across all platforms, including WSJ. Magazine, social, video, The Journal’s Style and other sections. 

WSJ. Magazine sets the bar in defining luxury men’s and women’s style, providing best-in-class fashion editorial and muscular feature journalism to an affluent global readership.  The ideal candidate will have a deep roster of industry contacts, a top-tier understanding of the style and fashion world, a shareable, reader-first approach to new content ideas, a unique and irreverent eye for exciting new contributors and trends, and be a strong and dynamic motivator, manager and mentor to a large, talented and growing team. 

You will:

• Set the fashion editorial strategy for WSJ. Magazine and other Journal style areas across all platforms, alongside the Editor-in-Chief and the Head of Creative, and be energized to grow and evolve the WSJ. and WSJ brand in new ways.

• Spearhead and closely manage the fashion team on all aspects of fashion editorial production, from dreaming up concepts and helping commission teams to liaising with vendors and ensuring all shoots are successful and all goals are met within budget.
   

• Burst with highly shareable, witty, arrestingly beautiful visual fashion ideas for all forums and platforms, with real and clearly understood value to commercial partners, digital audiences and talent.
   

• Champion an audience-first mindset to create inspiring work:  Have a sharp sense of how to connect with and grow audiences, including what both a luxury-fashion insider and a more general reader will require.  Be comfortable with discussion of digital work, knowing how to combine what’s connecting with audiences with your great taste and imagination.
   

• Supervise team maintenance of fastidiously organized systems for how fashion
  operations are run, from the closet to shoot prep to global logistics to scheduling to credits.  Proactively identify and fix breakdowns in operations and manage team for success.
   

• Work with the Offplatform Director to conceive of, execute and implement fashion social video ideas and support across all platforms.  Mine your own team for next-generation talent, develop growth opportunities for personalities and points-of-view to shine through new platforms.
   

• Proactively outline, set, and lead a robust calendar of team meetings with key PR partners and brands to maintain source relationships and develop new projects.
   

• In attending European fashion shows around the year as a marquee WSJ. Magazine representative, and deputizing team to support you at satellite weeks and shows, uncover ideas for next season’s editorial that are unique and inspiring, developing them into not only visual fashion ideas and trend reports but strong, shareable ideas for covers, market stories, social/video and digital experiences.
   

• Ensure the ethics and standards of The Wall Street Journal and WSJ. Magazine are consistently met through your own work and through both the conduct and output of your team.
   

You have:

• 6 to 10 years of experience, most recently at the deputy director or director level, at a luxury brand or publication that produces top-tier fashion editorial.

• A portfolio of beautiful, unexpected, inspiring work across multiple platforms—including digital- and social-only work—and a proven history of finding fresh, memorable takes and collaborators.

• Exceptional leadership skills, an inspiring managerial touch and a proven effectiveness at motivating and guiding a creative team, as well as broad diplomacy skills to work fluidly with lateral peers.  Those skills must include a collaborative, team-player attitude, an upbeat outlook and an entrepreneurial spirit.

• Social and digital thinking: a vested interest in how all content and stories will look and present across platforms, including video.

• A proven track record of managing a team to support complex fashion shoots, covers, videos and more from inception to completion, including flawlessly managing a budget and a delivery schedule.

• A sense of humor, including a history of finding clever, intelligent ways into trends and concepts that are being widely covered.

• Strong character, an honest nature and scrupulous adherence to WSJ’s unique ethics code within the fashion industry.
   

You will report to the Editor in Chief of WSJ. Magazine.  This position is full-time and is based in the New York office. 

To apply, please submit a cover letter describing your experience and interest in this job, a detailed résumé and either a portfolio link or five creative-work examples that showcase your capabilities. If necessary, include a very brief description of the role you played in each example. 

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Creative & Design

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $190,000 - $200,000

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