Associate Editor, Branded Content

Who What Wear is looking to hire an Associate Editor to join its award-winning workplace culture. If you’re looking to work with leading fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands to create content the Who What Wear audience will engage with, we’d love to hear from you! If you love shopping content and organically weaving in copy points from brands while maintaining your editorial voice, we’d love to hear from you! 

Our Branded Content team creates sponsored and editorial content for our brand partners that feels organic to Who What Wear. As an Associate Editor on our team, you will ideate, curate, and create a range of fashion, beauty, and lifestyle content. 

If you’re the ideal candidate for the role, you love to create content that’s optimized for a digital and social audience, and you are able to do it fast without sacrificing quality. You’re up to date with beauty and fashion trends and have a strong interest in creating ROI-driving content that meets campaign goals and editorial standards. 

This role can be based in New York or Los Angeles. 

Who What Wear is powered by a hybrid remote/ in-person workforce that spans the US and UK. Working here means that you get to build the work environment that best accommodates your unique needs and enables you to bring your best, most productive self to work – from nearly anywhere. Our interviewing and onboarding activities are conducted virtually, as will most of your work, but you should be open to working in person from time to time if necessary. 

Key Duties:

• Create editorial and sponsored content for Who What Wear and THE/THIRTY across beauty, fashion, wellness, lifestyle, and home categories
• Write concise and compelling copy for 5+ sponsored stories a week as well as social content, promotional elements, dedicated emails, newsletters, and decks under tight deadlines
• Ideate and execute highly shoppable stories in a collaborative manner with our partners, artfully incorporating their priorities and feedback while maintaining Who What Wear’s editorial content standards, style guide and best practices
• Build stories in our CMS that are optimized for SEO, meet FTC requirements, and reflect knowledge of our top-performing content
• Merchandize for strong affiliate conversion while maintaining Who What Wear’s aspirational and fashion-forward POV

   

Key Qualifications:

• 1-2 years of experience creating digital-media content
• Interest in native advertising and revenue-driving content and well-versed in fashion and beauty trends, retailers, brands, and key players, with an eye for product curation
• Knowledge of online editorial and social media best practices, including optimizing content for SEO, and familiarity with affiliate content marketing
• Must be able to provide self-direction to manage time and prioritize daily tasks using our project management software with a collaborative spirit and positive, can-do attitude
• Intimate familiarity with Who What Wear and understanding of the brand

   

Benefits & Perks: 

• Work/Life Balance: Unlimited time off, paid holidays, paid winter break, and flexible work schedules.
• Wellness: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their children, in addition to short- and long-term disability coverage and life insurance. Self-Care Fridays (Half-day Fridays) to encourage self-care and mental health awareness.
• Financial Well-being: Sponsored 401k plan with unlimited access to financial advisors and planning tools. Bonus eligibility and stock options for all Full-Time employees
• Opportunity to Fight Racism: We’re proud to match 100% of employee donations made to organizations that combat racism or support recovery from racist acts of violence.
• Opportunity to Do Good: Each employee dedicates one day per year toward an impactful social good project.
• And of course, the fashion! Who What Wear employees receive 50% off everything from our DTC line, the Who What Wear Collection. 

   

Our Commitment: 

Who What Wear provides an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Who What Wear believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as an international company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

More about Who What Wear: 

Who What Wear is an international fashion company known for its digital fashion publication — whowhatwear.com — and its carefully curated, low-key luxury line of clothing and accessories, the Who What Wear Collection. The brand was founded in 2006 by Hillary Kerr and Katherine Power and includes the chart-topping podcasts Second Life and Who What Wear with Hillary Kerr, both hosted by Kerr. Headquartered in Los Angeles.