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Harper’s BAZAAR is looking for a digitally native, fashion-obsessed Commerce Editor to create compelling shopping content across site, social, newsletters, and emerging platforms. This role is ideal for a strong writer and curator who understands the digital fashion landscape and knows how to turn cultural moments, emerging trends, and products audiences love into distinctive BAZAAR stories that inspire readers and drive engagement and revenue.
About Hearst Magazines (Why Us?)
Hearst Magazines is home to 30 leading editorial brands that inspire, inform, and entertain millions of audiences across print, digital, video, social, and emerging platforms. Our teams are driven by creativity, innovation, and collaboration, delivering exceptional content and experiences while shaping the future of media.
Key Responsibilities (What You Are Doing)
- Pitch and write up to five fashion commerce stories per week, balancing timely shopping news, trend coverage, sales, recurring franchises, and key cultural and retail moments.
- Create highly considered product curations that feel distinctly BAZAAR and reflect the brand’s editorial point of view and audience.
- Develop digital-first and social-first commerce content, including platform-native user-generated content and shopping-focused social storytelling.
- Support market curations for Editor Shops and other digital commerce storefronts.
- Monitor runway news, celebrity style, social conversations, emerging brands, viral products, and the broader shopping landscape to identify high-value story opportunities.
- Identify, refresh, and optimize existing BAZAAR content for affiliate commerce opportunities while maintaining editorial quality.
- Apply commerce, SEO, affiliate, and audience-development best practices to strengthen content performance and reach.
- Monitor affiliate performance across stories, products, categories, and retailers and use insights to inform future coverage and strategy.
- Support commerce promotion across the site, social platforms, and newsletters, including content production, links, visuals, and packaging.
- Contribute commerce insights and performance reporting to presentations and team discussions as needed.
- Support the Senior Commerce Content Lead in managing and editing freelance and central commerce-team contributions, ensuring content meets BAZAAR’s editorial, commerce, and brand standards.
Qualifications (What We're Looking For)
- 4+ years of experience in fashion, commerce, editorial, digital media, or a related field.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills, with a strong editorial voice and an eye for compelling fashion storytelling.
- Deep knowledge of fashion, shopping, beauty, retail, celebrity style, and the broader digital fashion landscape.
- Strong understanding of affiliate commerce, SEO, social media, and audience-development principles.
- Demonstrated ability to identify products, trends, and cultural moments that audiences want to shop, save, and share.
- Comfortable using data and performance metrics to evaluate content and inform editorial decisions.
- Strong product-curation skills and an ability to balance commercial considerations with thoughtful editorial judgment.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable working with editors, freelancers, commerce teams, and cross-functional partners.
- Familiarity with affiliate platforms, content management systems, social publishing tools, and analytics platforms is a plus.
- Passion for Harper’s BAZAAR and a strong understanding of its fashion authority, audience, and distinctive point of view.
- This role is based in New York, NY and requires working from the office four days per week.
Benefits (What We Offer)
- Work with the Best: Collaborate with top-tier professionals across media, advertising, tech, fashion, lifestyle, and publishing, shaping the future of these dynamic industries.
- Grow Your Skills: Unlock your potential with access to innovative training programs, immersive workshops, and exclusive industry events.
- Work-Life Harmony: Enjoy the flexibility of hybrid work, empowering you to balance professional success with personal priorities.
- Foster Connection & Belonging: Join our Employee Resource Groups and help create a welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered.
- Wellness First: Prioritize your well-being with a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance from Day 1.
- Plan for Your Financial Future: Enjoy competitive financial perks, including a 401(k) plan with a generous company match.
The base salary range for this role is $68,340–$73,500. This position is not eligible for bonus or commission compensation. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
Hearst Magazines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
This is a position covered under the Writers Guild of America, East, Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience in fashion, commerce, editorial, digital media, or a related field
- Exceptional writing and editing skills with a strong editorial voice
- Deep knowledge of fashion, shopping, beauty, retail, celebrity style, and the digital fashion landscape
- Strong understanding of affiliate commerce, SEO, social media, and audience-development principles
- Ability to identify products, trends, and cultural moments with shopping potential
- Ability to use data and performance metrics to evaluate content and inform editorial decisions
- Strong product-curation skills and commercial editorial judgment
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative and proactive approach when working with editors, freelancers, commerce teams, and cross-functional partners
- Familiarity with affiliate platforms, content management systems, social publishing tools, and analytics platforms
- Passion for Harper's BAZAAR and understanding of its audience and editorial point of view
- Ability to work from the New York office four days per week
Hearst Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hearst and has not been reviewed or approved by Hearst.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical plan choice, full in-network preventive coverage, dental and vision, telemedicine, prescription coverage, and fertility resources. Mental-health resources and other wellbeing services (e.g., therapy sessions, crisis support, virtual physical therapy, and chronic-condition programs) further strengthen the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as meaningful through a 401(k) plan with company matching and Hearst covering plan administration fees. Performance bonuses are also noted as available in some roles, adding an additional rewards component beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits include paid holidays, paid sick days, and vacation time with a commonly cited annual range, alongside paid parental leave and family medical leave. A remote work program and flexibility signals are also included as part of the overall rewards experience.
Hearst Insights
What We Do
Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.
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