Location
London, UK (Hybrid Working - 2 days in the office per week)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary offered

About the Role
Stylist, the multi-platform women’s media brand, part of DC Thomson, is seeking a Commissioning Editor to join our London office on Fleet Street. This role delivers distinctive, high-quality features content that strengthens Stylist’s brand authority, cultural relevance and audience engagement across all platforms. You will convert editorial direction into executable, high-performing features output, combining creative leadership with clear accountability for delivery and results.

Operating with autonomy within agreed editorial strategy, you will lead the day-to-day features agenda by originating, commissioning and editing content while taking ownership of performance against agreed KPIs. This role provides a senior editorial voice below Executive Editor level, balancing creativity, craft and data-informed decision-making to ensure consistent quality and impact.

You will liaise with writers to commission features from external contributors and, once received, edit and upload content to the Stylist website. We encourage diverse voices and the successful candidate will help shape the future direction of the stories we tell. You will also contribute to longer-term projects alongside the team.

Key Responsibilities Include:
- Features ideation and delivery: originate, plan, commission and edit compelling, timely features content that reflects Stylist’s voice, values and audience needs.
- Editorial craft and quality control: ensure all features content is accurate, well-structured, on brief and on deadline, meeting high editorial standards across platforms.
- Performance ownership: monitor and optimise features content performance against agreed KPIs, taking decisive action to improve outcomes where required.
- Forward planning and cultural relevance: maintain a live planner of cultural moments, trends and events to ensure proactive, resonant features coverage.
- Curating and delivering emails: responsible for sending a weekly email to Stylist’s paid members.
- Brand representation and industry connection: act as a visible ambassador for Stylist through events, multimedia content and industry relationships that enhance reputation and influence.

Experience
- Previous experience in a Commissioning Editor type role within a national publication.
- Experience commissioning real-life and first-person stories.
- Well connected with a contact book of writers who tell great stories.
- Able to meet deadlines.
- Demonstrable experience identifying where to find brilliant first-person stories that resonate with audiences.

Desirable Experience
- Prior experience from an industry championing women’s voices, lifestyle and interest.
- Prior experience curating and sending emails.
- Prior experience working with paywalls and membership offerings.

About You
- Excellent time management skills and confident holding others to account to meet their deadlines.
- Strong editorial oversight ensuring consistent quality, tone and fitness for purpose across channels.
- Skilled in using digital analytics to evaluate content performance, identify trends and adapt editorial approaches.
- Able to build effective working relationships with editors, freelancers and cross-functional partners.
- Creative and innovative, applying experimentation to features formats and storytelling balanced with audience insight.
- Knowledgeable in marketing principles including SEO and audience understanding to maximise reach and relevance.

Desirable Skills
- Able to use Content Management System (CMS); training will be provided.

Behaviours That Will Help You Succeed
- Being more curious: continuously exploring culture, audience insight and new voices to keep features fresh and relevant.
- Experiment with purpose: testing new content approaches deliberately, using insight and results to refine future decisions.
- Owning the outcomes: taking responsibility for features performance and quality, acting quickly when expectations are not met.
- Being more collaborative: working constructively across editorial, social, commercial and freelance networks to deliver stronger collective outcomes.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications required; however, relevant editorial experience and a passion for women’s media are essential.