Second Act Editor

Permanent employee, Full-time · London

Your mission

About SECOND ACT
HELLO! Magazine’s Second Act is a platform and community celebrating and supporting women in midlife. It reframes midlife as a time of possibility, reinvention, and empowerment, offering inspiration, advice, and stories from women embracing their next chapter. Second Act combines expert guidance, community engagement, and immersive experiences to help women live their most confident, exciting, and fulfilled lives.

The Role

We are seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial Editor to lead Second Act, building and shaping this editorial pillar into a thriving mini-business. This is more than a traditional editorial role; you will be a visionary content leader, a community-builder, and a growth-orientated thinker, with the freedom to innovate across digital, print, newsletter, social, video, audio, and live events.
You will work closely with HELLO!’s core editorial, social, video, podcast, marketing, and audience development teams, but you will own the creative vision for Second Act.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the editorial vision and strategy for Second Act, ensuring it resonates with women in midlife and beyond.
Create and commission compelling content across digital, print, newsletter, social, video, and podcasts, optimised for engagement, reach, and discoverability (including Google Discover and Apple News).
Drive audience growth and engagement by developing innovative content series, interactive experiences, and community initiatives.
Identify and develop monetisation opportunities, including live events, masterclasses, partnerships, and other revenue streams, while maintaining editorial integrity.
Collaborate with HELLO!’s teams to leverage cross-platform expertise in marketing, audience development, and commercial strategy.
Track and analyse content performance to inform strategy and maximise impact.
Build relationships with contributors, experts, and influencers aligned with Second Act’s mission.

Champion the Second Act brand both internally and externally, becoming the voice and face of this exciting platform.

Your profile

Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to inspire teams and external collaborators.
Passionate about celebrating women in midlife and creating content that is empowering, inclusive, and aspirational.

Experience

Strong editorial background, with experience in commissioning, writing, and managing content across multiple platforms.
Entrepreneurial mindset: proven experience building an audience, growing a platform or leading a project with commercial ambition.
Creative thinker: able to generate bold, engaging ideas for digital, social, video, audio, and live experiences.
Strategic and analytical: confident in using audience data to inform content and growth strategy.

Qualifications

In order to apply, please submit:

A full cover letter and CV demonstrating why you'd be right for this role.

The cover letter should include:

2 x articles to appeal to a Google Discover audience and one idea for a social video series.

Applications that don't fulfil this requirement will not be considered.

Benefits

As well as getting to work with an amazing team on exciting work, the role offers the following:

25 days annual leave per year.
1 birthday day per year
Employee Assistance Programme that offers support to employees with a wide range of concerns from mental health through to finances
Private medical scheme
Life assurance 6 x salary
Group Income Protection

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About us

MISSION STATEMENT

To influence and inspire with relevant, exclusive and entertaining content in a positive, celebratory and kind environment via stringent editorial integrity.

History of Hello

HELLO! is a market-leading lifestyle and celebrity publication, known for its positive and celebratory reporting and unrivalled showbiz exclusives which have been entertaining audiences since 1988.

Over the years, its digital brand has transformed from a small legacy publishing site into an influential global website.

HELLO! is part of the HOLA group, who launched ¡HOLA! magazine in Barcelona in 1944. The husband and wife team of Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón launched the publication with the aim of adding some sparkle to their readers’ lives. Always positive,¡HOLA! and HELLO! continue to remain true to the guiding principles of a new type of journalism - always positive, highly visual and celebratory, allowing readers a moment of escape into the worlds of the rich and famous to inspire, brighten and entertain.

With offices in London, New York and Toronto, HELLO! Magazine is now a 24-hour global website, with unique user experiences in our three main audience territories of the UK, US and Canada.

Our readership is more global than that however, with audiences also visiting the site from Australia, India, Europe and all other parts of the world.

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