New York Magazine is looking for a proactive, operationally-minded individual to join our team as Senior Manager, Operations & Business Affairs. This role will oversee all freelance and vendor relationships and work closely with editorial and legal teams to broker new agreements and ensure that we are maintaining healthy and efficient relationships with our contributors and partners. The Senior Manager, Operations & Business Affairs will develop a deep understanding of New York’s freelance standards and best practices and become the go-to for any questions about how we work with our contributors. The ideal candidate has experience with and a keen interest in the legal framework of editorial agreements, cares about creating systems that ensure freelancers and vendors are paid on time, and has the interpersonal skills necessary to develop trusting relationships with both staff and contributors.

WHO WE ARE

New York Magazine obsessively chronicles the ideas, people, and cultural events that are forever reshaping our world. The New York brand includes the groundbreaking magazine New York, which is published biweekly in print, and six thriving verticals: Intelligencer, delivering national news and sharp commentary on politics, business, technology, and media; the Cut, covering the conversations that matter most to women today; Vulture, the premier destination for culture news, criticism, and service; the Strategist, dedicated to shopping the internet smartly; Curbed, covering cities and city life; and Grub Street, home to food news and authoritative restaurant criticism.

New York Magazine is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Oversee all freelance payments magazine-wide, ensuring that contracts are signed and contributors are paid in a timely manner.
• Manage all editorial contract negotiations with contributors, working closely with editorial leadership and the Vox Media legal team to establish terms that suit both the magazine and the contributor.
• Develop a deep understanding of the magazine’s payment platforms — Coupa and Worksuite — to ensure contributors are being onboarded and paid efficiently.
• Serve as the point person between editorial and legal for all questions related to image and story rights & licensing, consulting with the managing editor whenever necessary
• Understand the magazine’s standard contract terms and consult with editorial leadership regularly to adjust and negotiate as needed.
• Communicate regularly with our syndication partners to approve when a story can be syndicated or licensed.
• Serve as the direct contact between contributors, editors, and the legal team
• Onboarding and offboarding, adding new hires and removing outgoing ones from: internal databases, mastheads, Google groups, etc.
• Create cross team visibility and help facilitate communication of key initiatives.

WHO YOU ARE

• Has at least 4 years of operations and/or business affairs experience, ideally in media
• Has experience working in Coupa and/or Worksuite
• Enjoys building and improving workflows
• Is comfortable working with many people across teams and functions company-wide and generally being the person others come to with a range of questions

If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We’ve hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.

WHERE YOU’LL WORK

This job is based in our New York City office.

WHY VOX MEDIA?

WHAT WE OFFER

This is a permanent, full-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.

OUR DEI+ COMMITMENT

Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and create their best work. We recognize that great stories, platforms, products and services come from people with all manner of backgrounds and experiences. We recognize that our commitments require ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices. We keep our diversity data public for the sake of accountability, transparency and communication. Learn more about our values here, and our approach to corporate citizenship here.

Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law. Vox Media will also consider all qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable Fair Chance laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations as part of the application process to candidates with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation as part of the application process, please contact our People & Culture team ([email protected]).

WHAT COMES NEXT

Our recruiting team will go through applications in a timely manner. Please note that our recruiting team will only contact you from @voxmedia.com email addresses, never via text message. Read more about how our recruiting team operates, and how to protect yourself from recruitment fraud, here.