Editor - identity
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About the Role
Motivate Media Group is seeking an experienced Editor to lead identity, the definitive authority on architecture, design, interiors and property in the Middle East. The role involves shaping the magazine, driving digital output, hosting a podcast, and leading the identity Design Awards.
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Responsibilities
- Own the editorial direction, flat plan and forward planning of the magazine
- Commission and write content in line with the editorial calendar
- Sign off every issue and get it to retail on time
- Regular and consistent digital output on identity.ae
- Develop and implement the digital content strategy using SEO research and performance data
- Write and deliver a newsletter
- Ideate video content strategies and develop/host the identity podcast
- Lead the editorial side of the identity Design Awards
- Work with commercial team to deliver print and digital creative solutions
- Build and maintain relationships across the region’s design community
Requirements
- 8+ years in professional writing and editing, with time spent leading a title or a section
- Design, architecture, interiors or property media experience is a genuine advantage
- Good knowledge of UAE press and publication law
- Proven ability to run a magazine end to end
- Applied SEO knowledge and daily CMS fluency
- Experience developing video or podcast content
- Excellent written English with a confident, precise voice
- Able to manage contributors and direct reports, run a budget, and work under deadlines
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About the Role
- This is identity’s most senior editorial role, reporting to the Group Content Director. The Editor owns the brand across every platform – the print magazine, identity.ae, social channels, newsletter, video, podcast and events – and sets the editorial direction.
Magazine
- Own the editorial direction, flat plan and forward planning of the magazine – working at least two issues ahead at all times.
- Commission and write content in line with the editorial calendar, balancing B2B depth with B2C appeal.
- Sign off every issue, and get it to retail on time, every time.
- Select covers in consultation with the Group Content Director.
Digital and SEO
- Regular and consistent digital output on identity.ae – news, projects, profiles and features – shared across the brand’s social channels.
- Develop and implement the digital content strategy, using SEO research and performance data to decide what gets covered and how.
- Write and deliver a newsletter that readers actually open – and that grows its open rate.
Video and podcast
- Ideate thumb stopping and deeply engaging video content strategies across identity’s YouTube channel.
- Develop and host the identity podcast – built around the region’s most interesting designers, architects and developers.
identity Design Awards and events
- Lead the editorial side of the identity Design Awards each year – categories, criteria, submissions and judging.
- Secure five international judges and manage the jury through to the winners’ reveal.
- Shape the look, feel and guest list of the Awards and identity’s micro events so they are unmistakably on brand.
Commercial and community
- Work with the Senior Partnerships Manager and commercial team to deliver print and digital creative solutions that make money without compromising editorial integrity.
- Build and maintain relationships across the region’s design studios, architecture practices, developers and PR networks to secure access, exclusives and first looks.
- Represent identity as brand ambassador at local and International design events.
Requirements
- 8+ years in professional writing and editing, with time spent leading a title or a section.
- Design, architecture, interiors or property media experience is a genuine advantage.
- Good knowledge of UAE press and publication law is required.
- Real fluency in the language of architecture and design.
- Proven ability to run a magazine end to end: flat planning, commissioning, subbing, proofing, artwork sign off and hitting the print deadline.
- Applied SEO knowledge and daily CMS fluency.
- Experience developing video or podcast content – or a credible, specific plan for how you would launch both.
- Excellent written English with a confident, precise voice.
- Able to manage contributors and direct reports, run a budget, and work under deadlines pressure without letting standards slip.
About identity
- Launched in 2002, identity is the Middle East’s magazine of contemporary architecture, design, interiors and property – in print, on identity.ae, and across social, video and email.
- Its editorial franchises include the id50 and the identity Design Awards.
- identity is part of Motivate Media Group.
How to Apply
- Send a CV, two or three writing samples, and a short covering note – no longer than one page – addressing specific questions.
- Applications without writing samples will not be reviewed.
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