Senior Manager, Special Projects

Senior Manager, Special Projects

Do you thrive on bringing order to complexity and driving momentum across teams? Join Hearst Magazines as a Senior Manager, Special Projects and lead high-impact initiatives that shape the future of our commerce business. In this role, you'll orchestrate key cross-functional projects that span editorial, product, marketing, and beyondmaking a measurable impact across some of the most iconic brands in media.

Hearst Magazines' portfolio of more than 30 iconic brands in the U.S.including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, and Popular Mechanicsinspires, entertains, and builds new and bold experiences for an engaged and growing audience across digital, video, social and print, reaching nearly 130 million readers and site visitors each month. With sophisticated content creation, cutting-edge technology, and industry-leading data capabilities, we make media and products that move people across all platforms. We are a global media company that publishes nearly 200 magazine editions and 175 websites around the worldand together, we are shaping what's next.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project management for special initiatives across Hearst Magazines' commerce divisionfrom scoping and planning through execution and delivery
• Develop and maintain project plans, roadmaps, and communication cadences; facilitate kickoffs, stand-ups, status meetings, and post-mortems
• Create clear, actionable documentation including briefs, RACIs, requirements, timelines, and dashboards
• Partner with cross-functional teams (e.g., editorial, product, marketing, operations, audience, BI, and legal) to coordinate efforts and remove roadblocks
• Monitor risks, manage change requests, and escalate issues as needed to keep projects moving forward
• Streamline workflows and implement process improvements for repeatable, high-quality delivery
• Build lightweight KPI reporting and dashboards to share progress and outcomes with stakeholders and leadership

Qualifications

Benefits

The base salary for this role is between $88,000 - $106,000. The actual base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as : transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hearst is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.