Content Editor

Cohere; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP/401K/Pension

Parental leave top-up

Enrichment and learning stipend

Paid vacation

Job summary

Cohere is seeking a Content Editor to lead editorial craft across thought leadership, developer content, customer stories, and product marketing. You will mentor the Staff Writer and collaborate with the Managing Editor to execute a shared calendar, while ensuring technical accuracy and strong storytelling.

The role requires extensive experience in B2B/tech writing, interviewing engineers and executives, and delivering publishable, polished narratives with a consistent voice.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of professional writing/editing experience in B2B/technical content and narrative-driven work.
• Comfortable interviewing engineers, customers, and executives and turning raw material into clear narrative.
• Experience editing others' work within a style guide and mentoring teammates.

Responsibilities

• Write and edit flagship content across editorial streams, including thought leadership and product content.
• Edit the Staff Writer's drafts with line edits and voice consistency, as a mentor.
• Turn SME interviews and product specs into polished stories.
• Partner with Content Strategist to translate briefs into publishable pieces with SEO value.
• Coordinate with Managing Editor on scheduling and triage of content types.
• Maintain and evolve the style guide and enforce voice/tone.
• Fact-check for technical and legal accuracy in dev content and customer stories.
• Oversee content production workflow from draft to publish.
• Ensure consistent brand messaging across all content.
• Coordinate revisions with writers and manage editorial calendar.

Skills

Editorial writing

Interviewing engineers/customers

Editing/mentoring

Portfolio demonstrating range

Job description

Who are we?

Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.

We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.

We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

Role summary:
The Content Editor is the team's senior hands-on editorial contributor, writing and editing the company's highest stakes content across thought leadership, developer content, customer stories, and product marketing content. This role pairs closely with the Staff Writer (editing and mentoring their work) and the Managing Editor (executing against the shared calendar), while taking on the pieces that require the most craft, technical fluency, or narrative judgment.

Core responsibilities:

• Write and edit flagship content across all editorial streams: executive bylines and thought leadership essays, guides or dev focused explainers, customer case studies, and product launch or feature human-led content

• Edit and strengthen the Staff Writer's drafts with line edits, structural feedback, and voice consistency, functioning as a mentor, not just a reviewer

• Translate raw input (SME interviews, product specs, customer conversations, exec talking points) into polished, publishable stories

• Partner with the Content Strategist to turn strategic briefs into concrete, well-scoped pieces ensuring SEO/AEO value

• Partner with the Managing Editor on prioritization and sequencing, as two team writers covering multiple content types requires triage

• Maintain and evolve the style guide in practice as this role enforces voice/tone at each sentence level

• Fact-check and coordinate technical & legal accuracy review on dev content and customer stories

• Oversee content production workflow from draft to publish

• Ensure consistency in voice, tone, and brand messaging

• Coordinate with writers on revisions and improvements

• Manage editorial calendar execution

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience professional writing/editing experience, ideally split across B2B/technical content and narrative-driven content (case studies, brand storytelling)

• Comfortable interviewing engineers, customers, and executives and turning raw material into a clear narrative

• Portfolio showing range: technical writing, thought leadership, and story-driven work, not just one lane

• Experience working within a style guide and editing others' work, not only producing your own

Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:

• A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.

• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.

• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.

• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.

• Annual enrichment benefits:

  Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.

  Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.

• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)

• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.

How and Where We Work:

• Cohere is remote-friendly, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening soon.

• For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.

• For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.

• Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.

If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply.

We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.