Full-time Manager, Global Editor In Chief, Ford Motor Company

With a career on the Ford Communications team, you can bring the message of our

exciting innovations to the world! You’ll help build and protect our global

reputation, build stakeholder trust, and further our mission of becoming the

world’s most trusted mobility company. You’ll be part of a dedicated

organization delivering best-in-class, high-impact communications programs that

support our innovations, industry leadership and commitment to social

responsibility.

In this position...

As the Editor-In-Chief for Ford From the Road, you will serve as primary

architect for Ford’s flagship storytelling channel. Your mission is to lead the

creation of compelling owned storytelling and grow Ford From the Road

significantly, putting Ford at the center of modern lifestyle, adventure, and

innovation.

You will be directly responsible for the strategic direction and execution of

our lifestyle storytelling, while providing executive oversight and narrative

cohesion for brand content and company news. Your mission is to grow Ford From

the Road into a premium storytelling destination that builds deep emotional

resonance and inspires customers, fans, current and former employees, creators

and media, and inspires.

02RESPONSIBILITIES

• What you'll do...
• Lead the overarching editorial vision, voice, and storytelling strategy for
• Ford From the Road across all digital and physical touchpoints
• Develop strategies to accelerate Ford From the Road’s subscriber base and
• engagement, working in partnership with marketing, brand, social, dealer, and
• other internal Ford teams
• Directly manage the development of content pillars, commissioning high-impact
• stories
• Commissioning high-impact lifestyle stories on travel, sustainability,
• outdoor adventure, and technology
• Overseeing brand storytelling (managed day-to-day by the Brand Editorial
• Lead), ensuring stories about how Ford’s iconic nameplates enable great
• customer experiences that feel authentic
• Provide strategic guidance for the company news, translating corporate
• milestones and technical innovations into engaging, public-facing
• narratives
• Manage a diverse roster of freelance contributors, and work with the internal
• Ford creative team to work with the best photographers and videographers to
• ensure a steady stream of stories and content
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive editorial calendar that balances
• seasonal trends, product priorities, and evergreen storytelling
• Utilize data and audience insights to optimize content performance, ensuring
• high engagement and growth across the channel
• Ensure all content maintains the highest standards of journalistic integrity,
• visual excellence, and brand safety
• Serve as an internal champion for storytelling excellence, coaching team
• members and stakeholders on how to move from marketing to narrative

03QUALIFICATIONS

• You'll have...
• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, English, or a related field
• 10-plus years of experience in editorial leadership (Editor-in-Chief or
• Editor roles) at a major lifestyle publication or premium brand-side content
• studio
• Proven track record of managing complex editorial calendars and
• multi-disciplinary creative teams
• Exceptional storytelling, editing, and copywriting skills with a portfolio of
• high-quality lifestyle content
• Strong understanding of digital publishing, SEO and GEO best practices, and
• content distribution strategies
• Experience managing freelance budgets
• Top-notch organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple content
• pillars simultaneously
• Professional maturity and the ability to navigate a large, complex corporate
• environment while maintaining a creative edge
• Even better, you may have...
• Master’s degree in Journalism
• Deep passion for the automotive industry and Ford’s heritage
• Experience in brand-as-publisher environments
• Proficiency in high-level content analytics and audience segmentation tools

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose

what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep

you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a

series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a

technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you

choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child
• care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense
• reimbursement, fertility treatments and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management
• leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including
• between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day
• This position is leadership level 5 and ranges from $141,700-$268,300.
• Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and
• experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to
• job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
• Internal applicants: moving into this role may result in an adjustment to your
• current compensation based on the posted pay range for this role, taking into
• consideration your qualifications and other relevant factors.
• For more information on salary and benefits, click here:
• https://fordcareers.co/LL5

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to

work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be

required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive

consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex,

national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or

protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable

accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please

call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid with a requirement to be onsite four or more days per

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