Job Description
The VP of AI Editorial Innovation reports into the Head of Editorial, leading innovation across Business Operations and Royalties while partnering closely with Product Management and AI Editorial.
The core of this role is partnering closely with the Editorial Product and AI Editorial teams and their leaders to set the innovation agenda and drive how AI evolves editorial products, workflows, business models, and ways of working across the broader organization. Beyond that, the role brings an innovation lens to the operating rhythm and planning cadence for editorial leadership, oversees the Strategy & Business Operations function, and provides leadership oversight of the Royalties business.
This is a general management and innovation leadership role at the center of Editorial’s day-to-day operation. It requires someone who can turn emerging ideas into strategic choices, experiments, and scaled outcomes; partner effectively on product and AI direction; run a disciplined planning and operating cadence; and identify new opportunities in Royalties.
This is a senior, highly visible role based in Zug, suited to an experienced leader who has led product and technology innovation at scale, driven organizational transformation, and is comfortable operating across strategy, experimentation, technology, and day-to-day execution.
Key Responsibilities
Partnering on Product and AI in Editorial
- Serve as a close, trusted partner to the Product Management (Editorial) and AI Editorial leadership in shaping direction for both functions
- Partner closely with these two leaders to define and drive the roadmap for how AI reshapes editorial products, content workflows, and ways of working
- Ensure the editorial product portfolio reflects a clear point of view on where and how AI should be applied across newsgathering, content production, and distribution
- Establish practical guardrails for AI use in editorial work, in partnership with legal and compliance, that protect editorial standards and trust
- Keep the organization ahead of changes in AI and editorial technology, partnering with those teams to adjust the roadmap and skills as needed
Strategy and Operating Leadership
- Set the planning, innovation, and operating cadence for the editorial leadership team, including goal-setting, prioritization, experimentation, and resource allocation across the portfolio
- Own the leadership team’s operating rhythm—leadership meetings, offsites, innovation reviews, business reviews, and executive communications
- Build reporting and dashboards that give the Head of Editorial and senior leadership clear visibility into progress, performance, innovation pipeline, adoption, and realized value across the portfolio
- Lead the Strategy & Business Operations function, using data, design thinking, and process innovation to resolve structural or resourcing issues that slow editorial teams down
- Incubate sensitive, cross-cutting, or high-potential innovation initiatives on behalf of the Head of Editorial as they arise
Royalties Oversight
- Provide innovative leadership oversight of the Royalties business, a revenue stream worth tens of millions of dollars annually, balancing performance of the core business with modernization and growth
- Work with the Director of Royalties on forecasting, tracking, commercial decisions, and experiments that improve data, processes, customer experience, and revenue performance
- Identify opportunities for new rights, licensing, data, and partnership models, assess associated risks, and represent the innovation pipeline and business performance to the Head of Editorial and other executives
- Partner with legal, finance, technology, and product teams to modernize rights and licensing capabilities and test new commercial approaches responsibly
People Leadership
- Lead and develop the Business Operations and Royalties functions, while building a close, collaborative partnership with the Product Management and AI Editorial leaders
- Build strong working relationships with editorial leadership, technology, finance, legal, external innovators, and research partners
- Provide steady, decisive leadership through periods of change or ambiguity, creating the psychological safety and clarity teams need to experiment and learn
- Foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across the portfolio
- Build innovation capability across teams through coaching, knowledge sharing, recognition, and access to relevant tools, methods, and expertise
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in product, technology, innovation, or operations leadership roles, ideally within media, publishing, content, or a similarly editorial environment
- Direct experience leading product management and/or AI teams, with a strong grasp of emerging technologies, responsible experimentation, and how AI is applied in practice
- Track record of building innovation portfolios and driving organizational or technology-led transformation from concept and pilot through scaled adoption and measurable value
- Experience leading through senior functional leaders, creating the conditions for cross-functional innovation rather than only managing individual contributors
- Strong executive communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to frame emerging opportunities, make evidence-based investment cases, and work effectively with senior leadership
- Based in or willing to relocate to Zug, Switzerland
Preferred Qualifications
- Product, AI, and innovation leadership
- Strategic foresight and opportunity discovery
- Experimentation, scaling, and transformation leadership
- Executive presence, judgment, and innovation storytelling
- Leadership of senior leaders and cross-functional innovators
- Operational rigor, learning agility, and value realization
- Responsible innovation and risk management
- External ecosystem and partnership development
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What’s in it For You?
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
DISCLAIMER
The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
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