Jobs at Atlantic Media

The Senior Editor will lead The Atlantic’s Science and Health coverage, overseeing staff writers and collaborating with editors to produce ambitious, compelling stories about science and its impact. Responsibilities include assigning and shaping magazine stories, editing breaking news and deeply reported projects, managing reporters, and guiding coverage across fields such as physics, biology, neuroscience, climate change, and geology. The role requires strong leadership, editorial judgment, scientific curiosity, and flexibility for occasional night, early-morning, and weekend work.

Senior Editor for The Atlantic’s Science and Health team, overseeing staff writers and collaborating with editors to produce high-impact stories on the politics of science and health. Responsibilities include assigning and shaping magazine stories, editing breaking news and deeply reported projects, managing reporters, and covering topics such as misinformation, AI, policy, regulation, academic conflicts, and medical breakthroughs. The role requires occasional night, early-morning, and weekend work.

Coordinates magazine print production from editorial preflight through press, including PDF preparation, advertising materials, proofs, special print projects, vendor coordination, quality assurance, and issue distribution. Supports online article conversion, postal and distribution requirements, production schedules, specifications, and tracking documents. Requires consumer-magazine production experience, InDesign and Acrobat Pro fluency, prepress and image-preparation knowledge, strong Excel skills, attention to detail, and flexibility for occasional night, early-morning, and weekend work.

Build, test, deploy, and maintain full-stack systems supporting advertising, monetization, and reader-facing experiences. Partner with product, design, mobile engineering, data, revenue, legal, and vendors to integrate platforms, improve performance and reliability, troubleshoot production issues, and balance revenue with user experience. Participate in on-call support, technical planning, code reviews, documentation, architectural recommendations, and mentoring.

Senior Editor shaping The Atlantic’s Hollywood and entertainment-industry coverage. Responsibilities include guiding reporters, delivering scoops and analysis, editing deeply reported stories, identifying industry trends, and producing engaging, rigorous journalism for a general-interest audience. The role requires collaboration, excellent story judgment, and occasional night, early-morning, and weekend work.

The Staff Writer will cover the media industry, reporting and analyzing changes in journalism, technology, ownership, public responsibility, and political positioning. Responsibilities include cultivating high-level sources, pursuing scoops, producing conversation-starting stories for broad audiences, responding quickly to breaking news, and developing deep investigative features. The role requires strong writing, reporting, analytical abilities, and enthusiasm for The Atlantic’s mission.

Leads advertising sales and partnership development for The Atlantic’s Media & Entertainment category. Owns senior client and agency relationships, develops cross-platform proposals, manages prospecting through deal close, grows existing accounts, and drives new advertising revenue. The role focuses on studios, streaming platforms, networks, publishers, digital media, audio, music, and gaming companies while representing The Atlantic in Los Angeles and the broader entertainment ecosystem.

Produce Galaxy Brain video podcast episodes from concept through distribution. Responsibilities include pitching topics and guests, conducting pre-interviews, coordinating recordings, managing lighting, audio, and camera setup, editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, overseeing post-production, maintaining production schedules, collaborating with editorial and support teams, creating social clips, and uploading episodes to video and audio platforms.

Write original analysis and reporting for The Daily newsletter several times weekly; monitor domestic and international news; find fresh angles; meet tight daily deadlines; coordinate with editors and engage reader responses to shape coverage.

Build and integrate application security systems across backend, cloud, and infrastructure environments. Partner with engineering teams on secure architecture, zero trust networking, IAM, WAFs, and data access controls. Review code and designs, secure agentic and LLM workflows, develop security tooling, and handle incidents from triage through durable remediation. Participate in on-call support and contribute to DevOps, reliability, and company-wide architecture.

The Atlantic seeks an experienced magazine reporter to cover food culture—producing reported, stylish stories on trends, food science, and culinary life. The role requires breaking news and analysis, strong source cultivation, fast turnaround, editorial judgment, and a sense of humor while translating cultural ideas for a wide audience.

Lead the monetization roadmap to grow subscriptions and ad revenue. Improve subscriber journeys and ad performance, define success metrics, run experiments, and partner cross-functionally to deliver scalable, reliable monetization products using data and AI tools.

Lead visual direction and brand expression across print, web, app, podcasts, video, and events. Manage the art department and oversee design, illustration, and photography to elevate The Atlantic's visual identity while meeting editorial deadlines.

Lead and build The Atlantic's QA practice as a hands-on manager: design test strategies, write and integrate automated tests into CI/CD, manage offshore QA contractors, define quality standards (including AI-driven features), evaluate tooling, track quality metrics, participate in incident on-call, and partner with engineering teams to raise overall product quality.

Manage and execute onsite growth experiments and product experiences to drive subscription acquisition. Build and QA tests in Zephr, analyze results, maintain documentation and Airtable systems, and create Looker dashboards. Coordinate cross-functionally with product, engineering, editorial, and creative teams to support partnerships, international expansion, and paywall strategy.

The Senior Art Director will manage and mentor the digital team, shape the visual identity of journalism, and create original illustrations for various projects.

The Art Director will create original illustrations, art direct assignments, and ensure work aligns with editorial standards while collaborating in a fast-paced news environment.

The Senior Editor will oversee staff writers, edit stories, suggest ideas, and ensure timely delivery of editorials while managing newsletters and special projects.

Lead and build The Atlantic Book Club: select and champion titles, commission and edit related essays and interviews, write editor notes, run live and virtual author events, cultivate publisher and author relationships, maintain a pipeline of prospects, and collaborate with Growth, Product, and Audience teams to present and promote the membership offering.

Edit and assign argument-driven essays and analysis on foreign affairs and national security. Commission contributors, turn around freelance pieces quickly, coordinate with art, copy, fact-check and audience teams, and work nights, early mornings, and weekends as needed while maintaining strong editorial judgment and attention to detail.