ITP Media Group is looking for a visionary Editor-in-Chief to lead GRAZIA Middle East, the region’s premier voice in luxury fashion, beauty, culture, and lifestyle. The Editor-in-Chief will define and execute the brand’s editorial vision across digital, print, video, and social platforms, ensuring GRAZIA stays ahead of trends while remaining culturally and commercially relevant in the Middle East.
The ideal candidate is a dynamic editorial leader with a deep understanding of fashion, social media trends, and the luxury landscape. They must be well-connected within the industry, with the ability to build and nurture strong relationships with designers, luxury brands, PRs, and KOLs, and act as a public-facing ambassador for the GRAZIA brand.
Requirements
Editorial Strategy & Vision:
- Lead the overall editorial direction of GRAZIA Middle East across print, digital, video, and social.
- Develop an engaging, luxury-first editorial calendar aligned with global GRAZIA standards and tailored to the Middle East audience.
- Ensure content is trend-driven, fashion-forward, and culturally resonant.
Content Creation & Oversight:
- Oversee ideation, commissioning, and editing of high-quality fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and cultural content.
- Deliver strong, unique storytelling across all platforms, including social-first formats.
- Collaborate with stylists, photographers, designers, and creatives on brand-defining shoots and features.
Industry Relationships & Talent Access:
- Cultivate and maintain strong connections with luxury fashion houses, beauty brands, PR agencies, influencers, and regional KOLs.
- Secure exclusives, interviews, event access, and content partnerships to elevate GRAZIA’s brand authority.
- Represent GRAZIA Middle East at key industry events and international fashion weeks.
Team Leadership & Collaboration:
- Lead, manage, and inspire a multidisciplinary editorial team including writers, editors, stylists, and digital producers.
- Collaborate closely with commercial, marketing, and digital teams to support revenue-driving initiatives while maintaining editorial integrity.
- Foster a creative, inclusive, and high-performance team culture.
Audience & Platform Growth:
- Work with social and digital leads to analyse performance and inform content strategies.
- Innovate with new formats to drive audience engagement and expand GRAZIA’s reach.
- Implement SEO, platform-specific, and trend-aware content strategies.
Commercial & Branded Content:
- Partner with the sales team to ideate and support branded content opportunities that reflect GRAZIA’s tone and standards.
- Contribute editorial direction to brand campaigns, client pitches, and sponsored projects.
- Maintain a strong balance between editorial vision and commercial viability.
- Growth and engagement across GRAZIA Middle East platforms.
- Consistency and quality of editorial output.
- Strong branded content performance.
- Growth and retention of audience and community.
- Editorial team development and performance.
- Brand reputation and visibility in regional and global fashion media
Preferences:
- English / Arabic bilingual (spoken & written)
- Comfort and experience in front of camera for social content
Benefits
Being an ITP employee is an opportunity to be part of the largest content creation house in the region and provides the luxury of working with global brands and experienced industry leaders. To ensure we invest in the development of our team, employees are given access to a variety of learning resources and exciting career development opportunities.
We believe in recognising the passionate efforts of our team members. Our employees are rewarded by competitive tax-free remuneration, attractive bonus structure, medical insurance and a generous leave entitlement scheme that sees annual holiday entitlement grow as tenure with the company increases. ITP employees also enjoy a variety of staff offers at many local restaurants, salons, hotels and service providers.
Skills Required
- Deep understanding of fashion, social media trends, and the luxury landscape
- Ability to lead editorial strategy across print, digital, video, and social platforms
- Experience overseeing fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and cultural content creation and editing
- Strong relationships with luxury fashion houses, beauty brands, PR agencies, influencers, and regional KOLs
- Ability to lead and inspire multidisciplinary editorial teams
- Ability to collaborate with commercial, marketing, sales, and digital teams
- Experience with SEO, platform-specific content strategies, and audience growth
- English and Arabic bilingual proficiency, spoken and written
- Comfort and experience appearing on camera for social content
What We Do
ITP Media Group is a media company reaching audiences across the Middle East and beyond through websites, portals, social media platforms, events, conferences, award ceremonies, magazines, books, and a social media influencers agency. Its content operations span digital publications, podcasts, and video series, with a focus on developing engaging, authoritative content and driving digital traffic and transformation across its publications.
