Be Part of What's Next
Help shape how Hearst Consumer teams work, collaborate, and deliver. As an Operations & Productivity Specialist, you'll build practical systems, tools, and workflows that simplify execution, improve visibility, and empower teams to focus on their highest-impact work.
About Hearst Magazines (Why Us?)
Hearst Magazines is home to 30 brands that inspire, inform, and entertain audiences across print, digital, social, video, events, and emerging platforms. Our portfolio includes some of the world's most recognized media brands, powered by award-winning content, innovative storytelling, and data-driven marketing solutions. We collaborate across editorial, sales, creative, and technology teams to deliver meaningful experiences for consumers and impactful business outcomes for our advertising partners.
Key Responsibilities (What You Are Doing)
- Support the Consumer Initiative Framework from intake through completion by helping teams define outcomes, ownership, dependencies, decisions, and required workstreams.
- Serve as the Consumer organization's Asana expert, maintaining Asana as the system of record for initiatives, priorities, ownership, dependencies, and progress.
- Build and maintain practical templates, automations, dashboards, and reporting that simplify planning, execution, and visibility across teams.
- Improve Creative Operations by optimizing intake, prioritization, capacity planning, workflow visibility, and collaboration across Creative and partner teams.
- Support initiative planning and execution by tracking priorities, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and key decisions while helping teams resolve blockers.
- Establish lightweight operating standards across initiatives, business-as-usual work, lifecycle programs, and recurring workflows without creating unnecessary process.
- Partner with Marketing, Creative, and other shared capabilities to align priorities, clarify ownership, and improve cross-functional coordination.
- Identify and implement AI, automation, and no-code solutions that reduce manual work, streamline workflows, and improve operational efficiency.
Qualifications (What We're Looking For)
- 3+ years of experience in operations, program management, project management, creative operations, or a related field within a media company, agency, or in-house organization.
- Advanced experience using Asana, including building workflows, automations, dashboards, reporting, and scalable operating systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to simplify complex processes and create practical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to improve cross-functional workflows while balancing consistency with flexibility.
- Experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI, automation, and emerging technologies that improve operational effectiveness.
- A proactive, ownership-oriented mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and delivering measurable impact.
- Ability to work in our New York City office four days per week as part of our hybrid work model.
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 $88,000–$95,000. 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.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in operations, program management, project management, creative operations, or a related field within a media company, agency, or in-house organization
- Advanced experience using Asana, including building workflows, automations, dashboards, reporting, and scalable operating systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to simplify complex processes and create practical solutions
- Demonstrated ability to improve cross-functional workflows while balancing consistency with flexibility
- Experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI, automation, and emerging technologies that improve operational effectiveness
- A proactive, ownership-oriented mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and delivering measurable impact
- Ability to work in the New York City office four days per week as part of a hybrid work model
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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