The Grand Tourist | Pardon Ventures
Full-time • NYC-based / Remote
THE ROLE
The Grand Tourist is seeking a digitally native editor with 5+ years of experience to own and grow our audience across social, email, and web. This is a hands-on strategy-and-execution role with an entrepreneurial mindset: build the growth plan, set KPIs, and execute independently with speed, strong editorial judgment, and relentless organization.
RESPONSIBILITIES
● Own digital growth strategy across social, email, web, and emerging channels; set KPIs, priorities, tests, and targets.
● Run social media end to end: calendar, copy, assets, publishing, engagement, and rapid response.
● Own newsletter strategy and execution: programming, copy, segmentation, testing, list growth, and engagement.
● Manage the website and CMS: publishing, packaging, SEO, discoverability, and archive repurposing.
● Turn magazine issues, podcast episodes, events, partnerships, and franchises into cross-platform growth campaigns.
● Track performance, report concise insights, and continuously test and optimize.
● Write and edit digital stories top edited and green-lighted by the Editor-in-Chief, headlines, captions, newsletters, landing pages, and promotional copy.
● Contribute pitches and articles to the biannual print magazine.
● Assist in various elements of podcast production as needed. Liaise with freelancers and staff.
● Spend approximately 10% time supporting other Pardon Ventures brands, including Collé.
REQUIREMENTS
● 5+ years in digital editorial, audience development, social, content strategy, or growth, ideally in editorial, luxury, design, fashion, travel, culture, or premium consumer media.
● Proven ability to build a digital growth strategy and execute it personally and independently.
● Excellent writing and editing skills, sharp visual judgment, and strong digital storytelling instincts.
● Fluency with CMS, email/CRM, social and web analytics, SEO, and performance reporting.
● Highly organized, self-directed, nimble, resourceful, accountable, and aggressive about growth.
● Fast-moving, experimental, data-driven, and comfortable being measured against ambitious KPIs.
STRUCTURE, BENEFITS & PERFORMANCE
Full-time, remote-based role for someone located in New York City, with occasional in-person meetings, shoots, and events. Salary commensurate with experience. This position reports to the Editor-in-Chief.
Benefits include health and dental coverage, 401(k) plus matching, plus a performance bonus tied to agreed KPIs such as audience growth, newsletter growth and engagement, web traffic, conversion, and campaign performance.
ABOUT THE GRAND TOURIST
The Grand Tourist podcast and magazine explores the greatest tastemakers in the world of luxury today, from world class chefs to experimental architects. For more than 160 audio episodes, Rubinstein has used his access and unique design lens to explore the worlds of fashion, art, interior design, travel, food, and culture. Beginning in 2026, the print magazine is published biannually, adding a visual dimension and thrilling narratives to the core mission of The Grand Tourist: to enlighten the modern connoisseur to live the well-lived life.
Collé is a weekly email and social exploration into the world of contemporary collage. Spotlighting a new artist each issue, Collé highlights the most forward-thinking, technically innovative, and idiosyncratic collage artists of today. Collé amplifies its artists across social, through its gallery in Newport Beach, and on Artsy, and through its collage kits and merchandise program.
Pardon Ventures is a modern family office and venture studio. We invest in visionary ventures — and the people behind them — across the arts, well‑being, and lifestyle.
The Grand Tourist is part of the Pardon Ventures Arts & Lifestyle Group.
