Condé Nast has concluded its search for Anna Wintour’s replacement at Vogue U.S.: On Tuesday, the media company announced Chloe Malle as the title’s new head of editorial content, effective immediately. (Puck‘s Lauren Sherman was the first to break the news on Monday.) Malle will report directly to Wintour and oversee all creative and editorial content of the publication.

“Fashion and media are both evolving at breakneck speed, and I am so thrilled and awed to be part of that,” Malle said in a press statement. “I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor.”

Conde Nast hired Malle internally, as she’s been at Vogue since 2011. (Sorry to any hopeful LinkedIn applicants.) She started as the social editor and eventually worked her way up to editor of Vogue.com and co-host of Vogue‘s podcast, “The Run-Through.” 

At Vogue.com, she helped double web traffic and spearheaded popular editorial projects such as Dogue and the Vogue Vintage Guide.

“I’ve spent my career at Vogue, working in roles across every platform — from print to digital, audio to video, events and social media,” Malle said. “I love the title, I love the content we create and I love the editors who create it. Vogue has already shaped who I am, now I’m excited at the prospect of shaping Vogue. I look forward to embedding myself even more fully across print, video and events — fostering the true cross-platform plurality that our audience craves and demands.”

Wintour added, “I believe that warmth, joy, experience and keen vision are what Vogue will thrive on through the years ahead. At a moment of change both within fashion and outside it, Vogue must continue to be both the standard-bearer and the boundary-pushing leader. Chloe has proven often that she can find the balance between American Vogue‘s long, singular history and its future on the front lines of the new. I am so excited to continue working with her, as her mentor but also as her student, while she leads us and our audiences where we’ve never been before.”

In addition to Vogue, Malle has bylines in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, WWD and more.

Since Wintour announced in June that she would be ending her tenure as editor in chief of Vogue U.S., the media quickly speculated that Malle would be a prime candidate to replace her. Puck named her Wintour’s safest choice, given her strong creative eye with a fundamental understanding that running the magazine is a business. (Also, fun fact: Her mother, Candice Bergen, played a Vogue editor on “Sex and the City.”)

Nicole Phelps, the global director of Vogue Runway; Sara Moonves, W editor; and Stella Bugbee, the editor of the Styles section at The New York Times, were also reportedly in the running.

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