Chief Editor ( Ad-Tech Experience Required)

Pixalate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Chief Editor, where your passion for ad-tech and storytelling meets innovation. Lead a talented team to produce insightful content that educates and inspires the ad-tech community. With a focus on quality and safety in advertising, you'll drive editorial vision and collaborate with experts to shape narratives that matter. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the industry while enjoying a casual work environment and competitive compensation. If you're ready to make an impact in a dynamic field, this position is for you.

Benefits

Monthly internet reimbursement

Casual work environment

Opportunity for advancement

Fun annual team events

Health Benefits

Unlimited PTO

Qualifications

• Experience in a digital newsroom with editing and production skills.
• Strong portfolio of published work, especially technical content.

Responsibilities

• Define editorial vision and innovate content types and structure.
• Deliver high-quality content and manage the content calendar.

Skills

Strong writing skills

Copyediting

Researching

Proofreading

Communication skills

Ad-tech knowledge

Education

Background in engineering or technical writing

Experience as a journalist or editor

Job description

Chief Editor ( Ad-Tech Experience Required)

Chief Editor ( Ad-Tech Experience Required)

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Chief Editor (Ad-Tech): Product technology blog and Data Research

Location: DC/NY

Employment Type: Full-Time

Pixalate is an online trust and safety platform that protects businesses, consumers, and children from deceptive, fraudulent, and non-compliant mobile, CTV apps and websites.

Our software and data have been used to unearth multiple high-profile criminal and illegal surveillance cases, including:

• Gizmodo: An iCloud Feature Is Enabling a $65 Million Scam, New Research Says
• Adweek: A 7-Figure Ad Fraud Scheme Running on Roku Underlines Murkiness of CTV
• Washington Post: Your kids’ apps are spying on them
• Pro Publica: Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
• ABC7 News: The State of Children's Privacy Online
• NBC News: How many apps are tracking your children
  
  

Our team of lawyers, data scientists, engineers, economists, and researchers spans globally with presence in California, New York, Washington, DC, London, and Singapore.

At Pixalate, we are building technology products for a trustworthy, clean, and safe supply chain for Connected TV and Mobile advertising. Our software has transformed how the advertising industry approaches quality and safety through our ratings, risk assessment, compliance, and fraud prevention technology.

Pixalate is hiring an editor-in-chief to lead our product innovation and data research for our corporate website and technology blog

Overview

We are looking for someone deeply familiar with the ad-technology landscape, passionate about cutting-edge data research and storytelling. Background in engineering or technical writing within a software/tech media company or publication is required.

Pixalate blog is not a marketing tool but a widely read publication trusted by thousands of inventory quality professionals, developers, researchers, equity analysts, ad-tech insiders, and regulators.

For over 10 years, we’ve published deep dives into detailed ad fraud reports, supply chain trends, and exposés that have become reference points across the ad-tech industry.

Our goal is to educate, inspire, or meaningfully contribute to the broader ad-tech community for a safe and trustworthy environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the editorial vision with the CEO, including innovating on content types, tone, structure, and website design for a highly technical and product-centered audience
• Deliver a regular cadence of high-quality content by line editing product announcements, collateral, press releases, and research reports.
• Own and drive the content calendar.
• Own and manage a Content Advisory Board, consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
• Be the final decision-maker on what gets published
• Collaborate with engineers, researchers, and product leadership to tell their stories
• Edit each submission for clarity, tone, and resonance with a technical audience
• Offer thoughtful, constructive feedback to authors
• Represent Pixalate at industry events, conferences, or panels
• Ghostwriting technical and policy thought leadership pieces
• Co-owning, innovating, and driving Pixalate’s Social media strategy
• Assisting with new ad Fraud exposes
• Pitching stories to trade publications
  
  

Qualifications

• Strong writing, copyediting, researching, and proofreading skills are a must.
• Experience as a journalist or editor at an ad tech-focused publication
• Background in engineering or technical writing within a software/tech media company or publication
• A strong portfolio of published work, especially technical or developer-focused content
• Experience in a digital newsroom, with a background in editing, writing, production, and product development.
• Ad-tech background
• Communication skills: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate ideas
  
  

Benefits

• Monthly internet reimbursement
• Casual work environment
• Opportunity for advancement
• Fun annual team events
• Being part of a high-performing team that wants to win and have fun doing it
• Extremely competitive compensation
• Health Benefits
• Unlimited PTO

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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