Global Editorial Director - B2B

About the Position

Foundry’s B2B brands have built direct audience relationships through websites, newsletters, events, and community for decades. The mandate now is to accelerate: Grow those audiences significantly, deepen engagement, and make one-to-one audience relationships the dominant revenue driver across the portfolio.

As Global Editorial Director - B2B, you will own editorial identity and strategy for five globally recognized enterprise brands, lead a team organized by desks and topicality, and operate as a peer to our Editorial Director - Consumer. Each brand leans into its own distinctive voice, while centralized functions across audience development, content operations (SEO/GEO), video, and revenue provide the shared infrastructure behind them all. This position will be required to be in the office full-time.

Your job, simply: Make B2B editorial the single most valuable driver of audience growth across the Foundry ecosystem.

More About Your Brands

• CIO, CSO, Computerworld, NetworkWorld- Role-based audiences: IT leaders and professionals defined by their job and decision authority.
• InfoWorld- Topic-based audience: developers and architects defined by the (AI) platforms and tools they use.

Responsibilities

Set Editorial Strategy

• Define the voice, positioning, and content strategy for each brand - develop a distinctive identity for each, with all sharing a single operational backbone.
• Apply the role-based vs. topic-based audience distinction as a governing principle across the portfolio.
• Treat AI as infrastructure woven through every brand’s coverage, not a standalone beat.

Build a Team of Creator-Journalists

• Recruit and develop creator-journalists who combine deep subject matter authority with multi-platform presence - across articles, newsletters, video, social, and event stages.
• Cultivate individual editorial voices that build subscriber relationships and become trusted names in their fields.

Grow and Deepen the Audience

• Expand the subscriber base and increase engagement across every brand, ensure every editorial surface - article, newsletter, video, event session - feeds the subscriber pool.
• Keep audiences inside the Foundry media ecosystem: moving readers across brands, into events, and back again rather than losing them to external platforms.
• Own a composite audience-quality scorecard spanning reach quality, relationship depth, revenue contribution, and platform capital.

Design Content for Two Worlds

• Every piece of B2B content should work in two modes: machine-readable for AI and search surfaces (structured, data-rich, and optimized for LLMs) and human-first for trust and community (personality-led, opinionated, relationship-building). Your editorial operation delivers both, every time.

Integrate Across the Organization

• Partner with our Content Operations team on publishing workflows and cross-brand content flow, with Audience Revenue on subscriptions and paywalls, with Video & New Media on distributing content across all platforms, and with Events on editorial-to-event programming.
• Support commercial strategy without compromising editorial integrity. Manage budgets and resources against the content model framework.
• Represent Foundry’s B2B brands externally - on stage, on panels, across digital channels.

Requirements

• 10+ years in editorial leadership in B2B technology, enterprise media, or an adjacent industry.
• An established network across the enterprise IT world - relationships with CIOs, CTOs, vendors, analysts, and conference organizers you can activate from day one.
• Track record leading high-performing, globally distributed editorial teams with named-brand authority.
• Deep understanding of enterprise IT buyers - their roles, their decision journeys, their pain points.
• Fluency in audience strategy: growing websites, newsletters, community, and events - not just page views and programmatic reach.
• Experience building or running a creator- or personality-led editorial model.
• Comfort in a layered organization - leading through influence as much as direct authority, and partnering with shared functions that serve multiple brands.
• Strong editorial judgement paired with commercial awareness and data literacy.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Full-time position
• On-site work location

About the Company

Foundry’s B2B brands have built direct audience relationships through websites, newsletters, events, and community for decades. The mandate now is to accelerate: Grow those audiences significantly, deepen engagement, and make one-to-one audience relationships the dominant revenue driver across the portfolio.