Fashion & Beauty Assistant

Job Description:

Fashion & Beauty Assistant WSJ. Magazine & Style News in New York NY

Job Description

WSJ. Magazine Off Duty and The Wall Street Journals Style section are seeking a dynamic and self-starting Fashion & Beauty Assistant to support market-related work across fashion and beauty categories as well as the office of the Style Director.

The ideal candidate is a nimble problem-solver with a deep interest in the fashion and beauty industries as well as a talent for project managing and logistics coordinating. They will thrive in a fast-paced highly collaborative environment and be ready to contribute ideas to our coverage with infectious energy and enthusiasm.

This is a full-time position based in our New York office and reporting to the Style Director of WSJ. Magazine. This job will occasionally require evening and weekend work.

You will:

• Request and maintain all beauty and wellness samples for the support of beauty coverage in WSJ. Magazine Style News and Off Duty executing a rigorous and uniform request protocol.

• Coordinate with editors to ensure all requests are made and all products are on-site in time for coverage and story ideas.

• Develop contacts with industry publicists and relevant companies.

• Maintain meticulous organizational records of inflow and outflow. Demonstrate flawless understanding of WSJ Standards & Ethics and request protocol.

• Offer support as needed for womens fashion market and the overall fashion closet and serve as extra hands during heavy volume periods when large-scale fashion shoots and complex multimedia projects are underway.

• Run the schedule calendar expenses and office of the Style Director and support the role with moodboard preparation clerical work and other administrative functions as needed and assigned. Organize fashion week plans and schedules.

• Coordinate with the Editor-in-Chiefs office on behalf of the Style Director to arrange co-timed business travel and meetings.

• Assist on credits for fashion and beauty as needed by the Style and Fashion team.

• Ensure the top-tier execution and ethical standards of WSJ. Magazine and the wider Wall Street Journal are consistently met: that work is of impeccable quality across all platforms and that The Journals codes of conduct risk & compliance protocols and overall Standards & Ethics rules are scrupulously met.

You have:

• A deep interest in the fashion and beauty industries whether through relevant experience at a similar fashion publication or media brand or relevant education or training. This is an entry-level position.

• Flawless project-management skills and the ability to juggle multiple time-sensitive projects and duties at one time.

• A thoughtful detail-oriented working style and a collaborative attitude.

• Sound judgment and a clear understanding of WSJs standards.

To apply please submit your resume and a cover letter explaining how you would approach the job. A portfolio of any relevant work samples is optional.

The Journals reporters editors developers and audio and visual journalists create important and impactful stories firmly rooted in fact and adhering to the highest ethical standards. We report without fear or bias and we maintain a proper sense of perspective detachment and objectivity in our reporting.

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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy age national origin disability status genetic information protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application due to a disability email us at Please put Reasonable Accommodation in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Union role

Pay Range: $55000 - $65000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidates experience industry knowledge location technical and communication skills and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract engage and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary for bonus eligible roles targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles in addition to cash compensation the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package with a variety of physical health retirement and savings caregiving emotional wellbeing transportation and other benefits including elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..