Editor-in-Chief

Newsletter Jobs; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stefanini Group in Dearborn, MI is seeking an Editor-in-Chief to steer editorial direction for Enterprise Technology communications. You will own channel strategy, governance, and storytelling quality while leading AI-enabled tools adoption to maximize audience engagement.

The role requires 8+ years in corporate communications, strong editorial leadership, and proven experience building multi-channel publishing workflows within a large, matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of corporate communications, editorial management, or internal media in a large organization.
• Experience establishing editorial guidelines, brand standards, and channel governance.
• Proven ability to optimize multi-channel publishing networks and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Editorial Leadership & Channel Governance for ET communication channels.
• Define publishing schedules, curate stories, enforce quality and voice standards.
• Define and maintain ET-wide communication and visual standards.
• Own lifecycle of channel-recommendation AI assistant and drive adoption.
• Pull, validate, and analyze readership data to establish a unified reporting baseline.
• Translate engagement metrics into executive-level insights and recommendations.
• Collaborate across ET to reduce noise and improve aligned publishing workflows.

Skills

Communications

Microsoft Office

Employee Engagement

Strategic Planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, or related field

Tools

SharePoint

Teams

Outlook

PowerPoint

Excel

Copilot

Job description

Stefanini Group is hiring!

Stefanini is looking for Editor-in-Chief, Dearborn, MI

The Communications Lead and Editor-in-Chief sets the editorial direction, governance standards, and measurement strategy for communications across the Enterprise Technology (ET) organization. This role serves as the central editorial steward and operational owner for ET-wide communication channels while partnering with communicators across decentralized teams to ensure alignment, clarity, and consistency. Additionally, this position leads the adoption of modern, AI-enabled communication tools and champions best practices to maximize audience engagement across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Editorial Leadership & Channel Governance

Editorial Direction & Content Curation

• Serve as the Editor-in-Chief for primary ET communication channels (e.g., weekly newsletter, MS Teams, Viva Engage), establishing publishing schedules, curating high-impact stories, and enforcing quality, voice, and narrative standards.

Brand & Marketing Standards

• Define, document, and maintain ET-wide communication, visual, and narrative standards aligned with corporate guidelines; ensure all ET-level messaging reflects modern, audience-first storytelling rather than transactional updates.

AI Tool Ownership & Adoption

• Own the lifecycle, iteration, and maintenance of the channel-recommendation AI assistant; actively pilot features, gather user feedback, and drive adoption among communicators across ET.

Channel Integrity & Guidance

• Serve as the primary steward for channel usage, guiding communicators toward appropriate channels and maintaining firm governance when requests do not align with channel strategy.
• Analytics, Measurement & Operating Strategy

End-to-End Metrics Ownership

• Directly pull, validate, and analyze readership and engagement data across ET communication channels to establish a consistent, unified reporting baseline.

Executive Insights & Reporting

• Translate engagement metrics into executive-level reporting that highlights audience trends, experimental outcomes, and data-driven recommendations to evolve channel strategy.

Channel Optimization & Alignment

• Collaborate with communicators and stakeholders across ET to reduce communication noise, optimize shared publishing workflows, and improve overall alignment across distributed teams.

Skills Required

• Communications, Microsoft Office, Employee Engagement, Strategic Planning

Experience Required

• 8+ years of progressive experience in corporate communications, editorial management, or internal media channels within a large, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience establishing editorial guidelines, brand standards, and formal channel governance models.
• Proven track record of evaluating and optimizing multi-channel communication networks and publishing workflows.

Technical Proficiency

• Advanced proficiency across the Microsoft 365 suite (SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Copilot).
• Hands-on experience extracting and analyzing platform analytics, e.g., SharePoint metrics, Viva Engage analytics, email campaign metrics, etc.
• Familiarity with AI tools and workflow-enablement technologies, including testing, prompt refinement, and user adoption.

Communication & Influence

• Exceptional editorial and written communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional peers, challenge assumptions constructively, and present findings to senior leadership.

Organization & Autonomy

• High degree of self-direction and accountability to manage publishing deadlines, maintain operational tools, and lead cross-organizational initiatives independently without direct reports.

Education Required

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, or a related field.

About Stefanini Group

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore and near shore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. Our presence is in countries like the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and more than four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5, IT consulting company with a global presence. We are a CMM Level 5 company.