HELLO, Features Editor

Your mission

This is a rare opportunity to join the iconic HELLO! Brand. We are seeking an experienced and creative Features Editor to join our dynamic editorial team. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for compelling stories, bringing in agenda setting exclusives, a knack for shaping engaging narratives, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.



To be eligible for this role, please include the following with your application:



1) A covering Letter

2) Three pitches for features worthy of a place in HELLO! Magazine’s print publication, but which also have innovative and digital first elements that will make us stand out from the competition. For each pitch, explain why you think the idea works for HELLO! and explain how you would tell your story in a cross-platform way. Feel free to include digital cover ideas, social media story-telling, video concepts and to include a description of how the feature would look visually, as well as how the story would be told.



Applications not including these tasks will not be considered.



Key Responsibilities

Use cross-platform workflow tools including and not limited to Slack, Trello

and Lucid Link

• Commission features across the HELLO! content hubs


• Ensure strict deadlines are met, generate weekly features ideas to ensure print issues are impactful, informative, engaging and commercially appealing


• Work with art and design hubs to ensure optimal layouts for features, both in print and digital format


• Be agile and adaptable and have a passion for news, entertainment, royal and society stories and a sharp news sense


• Have a keen eye for a headline and an exclusive which our HELLO! audience won’t be able to resist


• Have strong writing, editing skills with scrupulous attention to detail and media law


• Attend cover meetings and pitch cover line ideas

Your profile

As a member of HELLO!’s editorial team, you’ll be responsible for creating exclusive, elevated, news agenda-setting and shareable features aimed at HELLO’s engaged audience of discerning readers.



You will have top level contacts with PRs, agents and celebrities who reflect the HELLO! audience both in the UK and US. You will also have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the British royal family and society from front-row fashionistas to the latest young, aristo darlings.



You will be bursting with original ideas which you will develop and pitch, commission and edit. The role will also require you to attend events and contribute to special issues and other sections of the brand as required. You will also write both SEO- driven and social-led content for hellomagazine.com.



You will also work closely with digital and commercial colleagues to ensure all opportunities are executed brand-first. This requires experience and knowledge of working across print and digital products and a strong understanding of data, social media and other digital marketing tools.



You will set up exclusive interviews and shoots and commission content which are relevant for HELLO!, breaking celebrity stories in keeping with our brand ethos to inspire, entertain and educate our audience.



You will also forward plan the feature sections throughout the year, with aspirational and elegant shoots which showcase HELLO’s trustworthy, kind, positive and celebratory voice, featuring the crème de la crème of society and the entertainment world which appeal to our audience and advertisers.



Other key responsibilities will be to work with the team on special issue magazines during the year.



Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a features or news role, within the media industry.


• Exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills.


• Strong leadership and team management abilities.


• Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.


• Proficiency in digital publishing tools and content management systems.


• A deep understanding of current trends and issues in the media landscape.

Qualifications

Degree level qualifications are desirable but relevant experience is essential.

Benefits

As well as getting to work with an amazing team on exciting work, the role offers the following:

• 25 days annual leave per year.


• 1 birthday day per year


• Employee Assistance Programme that offers support to employees with a wide range of concerns from mental health through to finances


• Private medical scheme


• Life assurance 6 x salary


• Group Income Protection

About us

MISSION STATEMENT

To influence and inspire with relevant, exclusive and entertaining content in a positive, celebratory and kind environment via stringent editorial integrity.



History of Hello

HELLO! is a market-leading lifestyle and celebrity publication, known for its positive and celebratory reporting and unrivalled showbiz exclusives which have been entertaining audiences since 1988.



Over the years, its digital brand has transformed from a small legacy publishing site into an influential global website.



HELLO! is part of the HOLA group, who launched ¡HOLA! magazine in Barcelona in 1944. The husband and wife team of Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón launched the publication with the aim of adding some sparkle to their readers’ lives. Always positive,¡HOLA! and HELLO! continue to remain true to the guiding principles of a new type of journalism - always positive, highly visual and celebratory, allowing readers a moment of escape into the worlds of the rich and famous to inspire, brighten and entertain.



With offices in London, New York and Toronto, HELLO! Magazine is now a 24-hour global website, with unique user experiences in our three main audience territories of the UK, US and Canada.



Our readership is more global than that however, with audiences also visiting the site from Australia, India, Europe and all other parts of the world.