Wanted: Director of Digital for The Spectator

The Spectator’s sales are at a record high and rising, with growth driven by the website. Our model is pretty simple: we offer a few articles for free, then invite people to subscribe if they want more. We’re not seeking to maximise clicks, but are looking to grow our family of readers. We’ve made decent progress on pretty rudimentary tech; we now seek to make a major investment, and need someone to lead this next stage.

As with any publication, increasing subscribers will mean publishing good articles, arguments and analysis of a quality not to be found in any other weekly. But it also means having a slick, world-class website that’s a pleasure to read, easy to navigate and doesn’t throw up glitches (like asking users to log in every few days, or subjecting them to a Spanish inquisition when they try to sign up). The tech needs to be built, overseen, monitored and constantly improved.