The Company
Christie’s, the world’s largest Art Business, is an incredibly exciting & enriching place to start or continue your career. Whether you work within one of our Specialist Art & Luxury Departments or in our more Operational focused teams, we are all working together with one common goal in mind: to continue the success of this 250 year old company, steeped in history, bringing constant innovation whilst not forgetting our age old values; Passionate Expertise, Exceptional Client Service, Teamwork, Integrity, Business Judgement & Innovation. Colleagues across all departments are truly passionate about what they do and it is constantly inspiring to work with industry leaders across all segments of the business.
Why This Role Matters
Christie’s is seeking a Managing Editor to join its NY-based editorial team. Reporting to the Editorial Director, VP, Americas, and working closely with editorial, video, photography, production, and social teams, this fast-paced dynamic role will serve as daily traffic control for all written editorial products for the Americas division. The Managing Editor will be responsible for overseeing processes, copy editing and managing the team to deliver world-class written content on deadline.
How You'll Make An Impact
- Works across more than 80 categories of art to engage art specialists, find and develop unique and engaging stories
- Manage daily trafficking and scheduling across editorial, visuals, and production for fast-paced NY-based editorial team
- Marshall internal and external resources to assign, edit, and publish stories on deadline; ramping up for coverage during high volume seasons
- Ensuring timely publication to strategically align with marketing, press and pre-and post-sale deadlines
- Attend department-wide meetings, create information packets, and gather and centralize assets
- Partner closely with production team: Prep stories for publication, q/a content pre-publication to ensure accuracy, update existing content as needed with new information
- Copy edit content or assign to top editors and copyeditors, ensuring accuracy of tone, voice, and auction details
- Ensuring timely publication to align with marketing, press and pre-sale deadlines
- Support the Americas’ contribution to the company’s global weekly newsletter, Going Once
- Manage freelance budget and contracts, oversee invoices, recruit and onboard new freelancers and agencies
- Report back on data insights and performance
What You’ll Bring To The Team
- Minimum 5 years in a similar role at fast-paced auction house, digital publication or agency
- Strong organizational skills and project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Good people management skills
- Excellent ability to manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously while quickly raising concerns or changed priorities
- A natural collaborator able to partner effectively with multiple stakeholders
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including superior written and spoken communication and strong attention to detail. Adept communicator across, up, and down organizations
- Strong knowledge of art and artists with an ability to understand and showcase knowledge of various movements, time periods, and cultures
- Creativity and innovation – an entrepreneurial approach combined with energy and enthusiasm to create innovative image collections that help drive the stories
- Familiarity with using a CMS
- Experience with project management tools and systems including Monday.com. Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Ability to maintain confidential information
What’s Great About Working For Us
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision care plans for employees and dependents (On average, Christie’s pays 80% of total premiums)
- 401(k) Savings Plan – Christie’s provides a matching contribution up to 5% (subject to IRS limits)
- Life Insurance - 3x base salary (100% paid by Christie’s)
- Disability Insurance (100% paid by Christie’s)
- Generous time-off and leave policies; including 100% Paid Family Leave up to 16 weeks.
- Fitness Reimbursement Program: reimbursement of eligible fitness fees and memberships up to $600 per year
- Annual Discretionary Performance Bonus Plan
- Commuter Benefits - Pre-tax money towards your daily commute with a Christie’s contribution of $21 per month
- Back Up Child & Elder Care – up to 10 days of back-up Child or Elder Care through Bright Horizons
- CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Day- Each employee receives one paid day per year to dedicate their time to a charity of their choice.
- Perks and Discounts through Zo and Plum Benefits
Christie’s, Inc. is committed to principles of equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, and to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws concerning employment discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. To this end, Christie’s Inc. ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants, regardless of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, lawful alien status, physical, mental, and medical disability, veteran status or liability status for service in the United States Armed Forces.
Closing Date: February 17th, 2026
- Posted salary range does not include discretionary bonus compensation and overtime pay.
Compensation Range
Salary: $85,000.00 - $100,000.00
