Editorial Manager - Home
Company Background:
Gilt Groupe provides invitation-only access to high-end fashion and luxury brands at highly discounted prices. The company currently works with a roster of nearly 400 up-and-coming and established brands in the women's, men's, children's, beauty, and home fashion categories.
Gilt Groupe was founded by an experienced team with proven track records at successful luxury fashion companies. Gilt Groupe is a fully funded company and is currently based in the vibrant Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.
Job Description:
Gilt Groupe is seeking an Editorial Manager to develop and direct our Home site merchandising and editorial team.
This role will be responsible for writing original content that highlights designers and their products and accurately describes product features and attributes for Home sales selection. This individual will ensure that Gilt provides compelling and concise information that makes it easy for customers to quickly find and buy the Home products they want and that frequently draws customers back to the site to visit Home sales and to discover Home designers.
The Editorial Manager will be responsible for ensuring the team provides clear and accurate product descriptions which quickly answer in advance any questions a customer may have about a product during a sale.
Key job functions include:
• Owning the Home editorial and site merchandising process end-to-end
• Writing inspiring, accurate, grammatically-correct designer profiles and product descriptions
• Coaching and motivating a small team of product merchandising coordinators
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of current Home trends and terminology across many home categories, items and styles
• Representing the voice of Gilt and providing exceptional quality copy and details about each item
• Maintaining a high team productivity level and working with business teams to meet goals and customer engagement and service levels
Qualifications:
• 5-10 years experience
• Proven editorial experience, excellent editing and fact-checking skills
• Proven experience managing an editorial team, ability to motivate and develop others
• Excellent problem solving skills, and a strong bias for action
• Must be flexible and adaptable to changes in the workplace and able to learn new technical skills and tools quickly.
• Efficiency: Able to multitask, is highly organized, and meets deadlines. Always looking for better processes and modes of communication so the editorial team is as efficient as it can be.
• Self-starter: Must be self-motivated and able to identify a problem then follow it through to resolution
• Must be able to work independently and reliably with minimal supervision.
• Good communication skills in person, on the phone, and in e-mail.
• Previous Home magazine or retail experience preferred. Web or ecommerce experience a plus.
• Bachelor's Degree Required
**Professional writing samples must be submitted to be considered for this position.**
If interested, please send your resume to careers@gilt.com