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Salary: USD 85,000 - 95,000 / annual
Vox Media is seeking a Senior Experiential Strategist to shape experiential strategy for editorial events and custom brand activations across the New York Magazine portfolio, including New York Magazine, The Cut, Vulture, and The Strategist.
In this role, you will drive creative positioning and go-to-market strategy for experiential offerings, developing creative concepts for marquee multi-sponsor tentpole events, editorial activations, and custom branded experiences. You'll lead experiential thinking for RFPs and proactive pitches, using research, cultural trends, and visual storytelling to develop compelling concepts and proposals. You'll write pitch concepts with clarity, originality, and strategic intent, delivering standout creative copy that brings ideas to life and connects to client objectives.
Key responsibilities include leading deck development for proactive pitches to advertisers, developing detailed event budgets and timelines, assessing production considerations to ensure concepts are both creatively compelling and feasible, and presenting experiential offerings to the Advertising organization and in client meetings. You'll build strong relationships with Sales and Editorial teams, ensuring pitched concepts match scoped work and flagging incremental work before it reaches post-sale production. You'll assist in the pre-sale to post-sale handoff, translating the sold event vision into clear, actionable production scope.
You'll attend key events and production walk-throughs to gain firsthand insight into what works in practice, using those learnings to strengthen future concepts. You'll conduct competitive and cultural research to identify emerging opportunities, building a central point of view and working archive of event moodboards, references, and industry innovation. This role requires collaboration across Marketing, Editorial, Sales, and Experiential teams to shape strategy and develop ideas aligned with business objectives.
This is a permanent, full-time position based in the New York City office.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3-5 years of experience in experiential marketing, event production, or creative strategy (agency, media, or brand side)
- Outstanding writing and visual communication skills, with expertise in building pitch decks in Google Slides
- Solid understanding of event pricing, preliminary budgeting, and vendor quote management
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to bring creative experiential ideas to life in meetings
- Deep curiosity about live experiences, pop culture, and emerging trends
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once, stay organized, and communicate effectively
- Avid fan and reader of New York Magazine brands
