Managing Editor

The Opportunity

• Understand magazine production and can foresee bottlenecks weeks before anyone else sees them
  
• Build clear, replicable systems—templates, checklists, processes—that level up junior editors and reduce single-person bottlenecks
  
• Have strong editorial judgment and can top-edit confidently across sections, shaping structure, sharpening angles and elevating writers
  
• Communicate with calm authority; you hold deadlines firmly while supporting the people responsible for meeting them
  
• Enjoy organizing complex workflows and take pride in making editorial teams feel clear, efficient and empowered
  
• Can navigate both long-lead print cycles and shorter digital timelines with strategic clarity and sound judgment
  

• You’re a builder: you design systems that survive real-world pressure. You have a track record of keeping new workflows running long after they’re introduced.
  
• You elevate writers and editors through clear, actionable guidance.
  
• You understand how story framing, structure and packaging shape reader experience.
  
• You manage with steadiness: direct, thoughtful, reliable.
  
• You’re energized by making a creative team smarter, faster and more capable.
  

What You’ll Do

Own and Optimize Editorial Workflow

• Oversee the full production calendar across monthly issues, special editions, newsletters and digital production
  
• Anticipate pressure points and adjust timelines, workloads and expectations before problems arise
  
• Keep the team aligned on deadlines, deliverables and next steps
  
• Identify where workflows can be streamlined without compromising editorial quality
  

Build Systems That Scale

• Create templates and playbooks for story development, captions, proofing, fact-checking and layout workflows
  
• Identify single-point bottlenecks and design systems that distribute knowledge and responsibility

Top-Edit Across the Publication

• Shape and elevate drafts across design, arts & culture, food & wine, wellness, profiles, service packages, society and philanthropy
  
• Guide writers and junior editors with clear structural and conceptual edits

Hire, Develop and Mentor Talent

• Lead hiring and onboarding for fellows, interns and junior editors
  
• Build repeatable frameworks that help junior staff grow and operate more independently

Drive Multi-Issue Planning

• Map overlapping magazine cycles and ensure realistic staffing and sequencing
  
• Partner closely with design and photo on art needs, timelines and page flow
  
• Maintain lineup documents, trackers and schedules

Support the Editor-in-Chief

• Serve as a strategic partner on planning, quality control and systems design
  
• Provide clear-eyed assessments of staffing needs, workflow stress points and process improvements

• 10+ years of editorial experience in magazines, high-level lifestyle journalism or multi-product media environments
  
• Proven experience managing complex production calendars and overlapping deadlines
  
• Demonstrated ability to top-edit with clarity, structural insight and high editorial standards
  
• Strong organizational and time-management skills; comfort with detail-heavy workflows
  
• Experience in developing and managing freelancers
  
• Ability to collaborate with design, photo and digital teams on story packaging
  
• Digital fluency—comfortable shaping stories for web and social
  
• Willingness to work in-office full-time and attend evening/weekend events as needed
  
• A calm, authoritative communication style that reinforces accountability and builds trust

• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods and use hands for typing and editing.
• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds occasionally.
• Visual and auditory ability to review content and attend meetings.
• Occasional travel may be required.
  

• You’ll shape how one of the region’s most influential lifestyle magazines functions at its highest level.
  
• You’ll build systems and structures that elevate the entire editorial team.
  
• You’ll work closely with a committed creative team, producing ambitious lifestyle journalism.
  
• You’ll contribute to a trusted regional brand with a long-standing editorial legacy.
  
• You’ll work in a place where editorial judgment, visual storytelling and longform are central.
  

• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance, and HSA
  • 1st of the month after 30 days of employment
  • Subject to plan terms
• Eligibility for company-paid benefits such as life insurance & EAP and employee-paid benefits such as short-term disability
• PTO – Earned on Accrual Basis
• Company-Paid Holidays
• 401(k)

Southwest Florida is often praised as being one of the healthiest and happiest places in the world with miles of white-sand beaches and a dynamic community. Broadcast Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are a drug-free and smoke-free environment.