Your mission
We are seeking a highly analytical and results-driven Syndication Manager to lead our Syndication strategy and operations with a focus on the Apple News platform. This role is responsible for maximizing our reach, engagement, and revenue. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of content management, digital analytics, and the Apple News Publisher tools and policies.
This role is full time with three days in the London office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).
To apply please send in your CV and a covering letter.
Key Responsibilities
Apple News- Develop and execute a clear strategy for Apple News to maximise readership, engagement, and revenue.
- Act as the company’s subject-matter lead on Apple News policies, best practice, platform updates, and performance drivers.
- Collaborate with editorial teams to optimise content, packaging, headlines, and imagery for Apple News consumption.
- Conduct ongoing A/B testing to improve CTR, follows, dwell time, and referral traffic to owned properties.
- Own Apple News performance metrics — UVs, Time Spent, Follows, CTR, page views, and revenue — providing analysis and recommendations to editorial and leadership.
- Oversee revenue forecasting for Apple News+ and support commercial teams with insights into performance and opportunity.
- Work in collaboration with editorial teams who already hold relationships with Apple’s Publisher Partnerships and Technical Support teams.
Syndication Expansion (across all partners)As the role expands, you will:
- Extend oversight to all syndication partners (e.g., SmartNews, Newsbreak, Microsoft Start, and others).
- Build and maintain best-practice guidelines for each platform, ensuring consistency across editorial and product workflows.
- Drive audience growth, engagement, and revenue across syndication as a whole.
- Manage pipeline reporting, forecasting, and performance tracking for the syndication department.
- Strengthen relationships with current and future syndication partners, identifying new opportunities and improvements.
- Lead weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting on syndication performance, delivering clear, actionable insights.
- Identify and support new revenue streams based on platform innovation, editorial trends, and audience behaviour.
- Work cross-functionally with Editorial, Product, Commercial, Ad Sales, SEO, and Engineering teams to support platform-specific initiatives.
Qualifications
Relevant experience is desirable.
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.
