Position
Editor-in-Chief, Design News Now
Company
Design News Now is the leading digital publication for residential design. DNN is a
subsidiary of the News Now Media Group, parent company of multiple industry leading titles: Home News Now, Bedding News Now, Lighting News Now and Casual News Now. Each site is the leading weekly trade resource for their specific niche within the greater home furnishing marketplace. The News Now family of brands business model is based on providing compelling, sometimes even challenging, content industry leaders and decision makers rely on in today’s rapidly evolving consumer products landscape.
In the rapidly evolving world of interior design and those who sell to interior designers, this ideal candidate will be a taste maker, trend spotter and information sponge with keen abilities to decide and decipher what’s important, what’s relevant and what’s next. While the ideal candidate for this role will be a person not necessarily from either the furniture or publishing worlds, it would be a strong asset to have. Industry leaders will call on and rely upon this person for both industry and customer intelligence. Quickly establishing credibility among industry leadership for a quick call or full sales team trend presentation will be a critical measure of the candidate’s success.
This role, like the industry it serves, will call for a dynamic personality, enabled with the capacity to mold and shift with the ever-changing landscape of the home furnishings business.
Responsibilities
- Manage weekly newsletter, website (designnewsnow.com) tailored to residential interior design industry.
- Write 2-3 in-depth, compelling articles about business, projects and trends designed to inform ad inspire interior designers
- Collaborate with contributors and the editorial team to deliver weekly and monthly content.
- Share home furnishings industry news relevant to interior designers in the form of press releases and other news sources.
- Engage with the home furnishings industry—designers, retailers and manufacturers as face/voice of publication.
- Attend home industry markets/events.
- Manage WordPress site/social media presence for the brand.
Qualifications
- Excellent written/verbal communications skills.
- Familiarity with the home furnishings business is preferable.
- Regular travel to home furnishings markets, speaking engagements.
- Ability to manage weekly publication of newsletter via HubSpot and WordPress website.
- Comfortable with social media management.
- US based only.
Please send resumes and writing samples to Susan Jones, Group Publisher, at
susan@homenewsnow.com
