United States onlyEditorial Lead: AGEIST
AGEIST is seeking a visionary Editorial Lead to set and steer the editorial direction for the next chapter of growth of our modern media brand, known for sophisticated cultural profiles and design-forward storytelling for adults 50+.
AGEIST is a style-forward, design-conscious, globally fluent digital media property reshaping how the world sees adults 50+, the most economically powerful demographic in the world. We tell stories of vitality, agency, reinvention, and peak performance. It is glossy, direct gaze, editorial, modern. It positions this generation as ascending, not declining.
We’re looking for an Editorial Lead with a sharp instinct for who and what signals relevance in the modern 50+ world, and what it looks like (the many version and many dimensions) to “live the good life” for this demographic
About the Role
As the Editorial Lead, you will serve as the architect of AGEIST’s cultural voice and the guardian of its aesthetic and editorial standard. Your job is not simply to “run content”; it is to craft and consistently deliver point of view and scale this platform from 50k to 500k and beyond.
You will:
- Identify and elevate the people, movements, ideas, and aesthetics that redefine aging and the modern 50+ world.
- Uphold the AGEIST mandate: aging means agency, wisdom, vitality, and aspiration.
- Ensure every profile, every article, every image, every headline signals this is what the future of 50+ looks like.
You will oversee profiles, interviews, features, editorial franchises, and partner-supported stories, all through a luxury, design-forward, culturally attuned lens. You’ll collaborate with our founder and creative leads to ensure editorial and visual execution feels modern, elegant, and distinctively AGEIST.
What You’ll Do
Editorial Strategy and Cultural Point of View
- Define and evolve AGEIST’s editorial direction, grounded in vitality, agency, wisdom, and vitality.
- Act as a cultural radar spotting profile subjects, trends, and ideas that feel fresh, global, and aspirational.
- Source profiles from design, performance, fitness, entrepreneurship, fashion, mindset, travel, and contemporary culture: creative pivoters, global nomads, fashion-forward leaders, aesthetic outliers.
- Lead smart, elegant interviews that translate into character-rich narratives and shape story arcs that feel intimate, stylish, and deeply human.
- Own the full story lifecycle: pitch, interview, edit, layout, publish, maintaining a high-functioning editorial calendar. Commission and edit a growing bench of writers and correspondents as the publication scales.
- Source images, plan layout, and oversee visual cohesion, ensuring every story reflects our high-contrast, style-driven editorial aesthetic.
- Craft partner-friendly content that maintains editorial integrity while delivering elevated storytelling aligned with AGEIST’s brand edge.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years in magazine journalism, cultural writing, wellness/lifestyle/editorial leadership, or a comparable high-aesthetic, digital-centric editorial world.
- Comfort operating at two altitudes: shaping a long-term editorial vision while also jumping into transcripts, image selects, layout notes, and hands-on editing when needed.
- A deep understanding of design, fashion, photography, and style-driven storytelling.
- A network of culturally interesting subjects across design, fitness, art, tech, entrepreneurship, and global living.
- Extraordinary interviewing, writing, and editing chops; you shape voice, tone, and cadence with precision.
- A collaborative, low-ego, highly competent approach, able to lead vision and execute with speed.
- Genuine curiosity about longevity, vitality, performance, reinvention, and culture after 50.
Benefits
This contractor role will start at 15–20 hours per week, with the hope and intention that it evolves into a full-time position over time.
