Current position: Junior Editor
Oracle Time · Full time, permanent · Battlesbridge, Essex (3 days in office) · £26,000 to £30,000 depending on experience · Applications close Sunday 31 August
There is a job out there for watch lovers, and this is it. New releases land on your desk before the embargo lifts, you sit across the table from the people who design and build the watches you argue about online, and you get paid to share your opinions in print, online and on camera.
About Oracle Time
Oracle Time is the UK’s leading watch and luxury lifestyle magazine, publishing ten print issues a year alongside oracleoftime.com and a large and growing social audience. We are a small creative team built on teamwork, a love of watches, and the belief that a watch is more than just a spec sheet. Every watch carries a real story, of the person who made it, the era that shaped it or the wrist it ended up on, and our job is to find that story and tell it better than anyone else.
The role
The Junior Editor sits at the heart of Oracle Time, producing content across the magazine, the website and our social channels. It is a hands-on job with a byline in print and online from your first issue, and full training inside a working magazine.
What you will be doing
- Writing hands-on watch reviews, news, new release coverage, features, interviews and brand profiles
- Adapting content across platforms: a print feature becomes an online article, a review becomes a short video
- Helping plan and produce social content, presenting on camera for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and recording voice overs
- Supporting photoshoot planning and feeding into magazine layouts
- Attending product launches, press days and industry events as a representative of the brand
- Supporting commercial and advertiser content alongside the editorial team
- Working to print production deadlines across a ten-issue schedule
- Helping across our reader events and flagship Hands On Horology exhibition
What we are looking for
- Deep, genuine watch knowledge, in whatever form it comes: knowing every Omega reference off by heart, understanding how a vertical clutch chronograph works, or being able to name every microbrand going
- Strong writing with a natural sense of narrative
- Comfortable on camera and with voice overs, or willing to become comfortable; you do not need to be polished, but it helps if you are confident enough to give it a go
- Organised enough to hit print deadlines
- Able to work from our Battlesbridge office three days a week (35 minutes from London Liverpool Street)
- No journalism degree or previous bylines required
What we offer
- £26,000 to £30,000 depending on experience
- A byline in print and online from your first issue
- Training and mentoring inside a working magazine
- Industry access from day one: launches, press days and events
- 28 days holiday including bank holidays, plus a paid Christmas shutdown
- Company pension
- Hybrid working (two days from home)
- Discounts with partner watch brands
How to apply
Fill in the form below: a few basics, the watch that got you hooked, one feature you would pitch us, and 800 words on a set brief, which is this: make us care about a watch you love.
We will read everything, and five shortlisted writers each get a paid trial commission before the strongest gets the job. Our aim is simply to find the right person for Oracle Time, whatever their experience. If the role does not end up being yours, we love working with new writers and strong applicants will be invited into our paid contributor programme. And if you are more experienced than this role suggests, apply anyway: the scope and the package will be agreed to match.
If you have a CV or portfolio you’d like us to see, email it to editorial@opulentmedia.co.uk with your name and “Junior Editor” in the subject line.
Applications close 7th September.
