Editorial Researcher: Startups, Tech & AI Stories

Y Combinator; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Dental

Infertility benefit

STD/LTD

Life insurance

Commuter benefits

FSA

HSA

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Y Combinator in San Francisco is seeking an Editorial Researcher for the YC Media team to research, write, and edit YC’s content across videos, podcasts, essays, and original research. We’re looking for someone who is unusually curious, technically inclined, and a very good writer.

This role involves developing ideas with YC partners and founders, turning interesting concepts into compelling content, and experimenting with new editorial formats while making complex ideas accessible to a broad

Qualifications

• You're deeply curious about technology and understand the culture around startups, AI, engineering, and the internet.
• You're an excellent writer and editor. You can make complicated things simple without making them simplistic.
• You're technical enough to talk to engineers and researchers and understand what they're actually saying.
• You like going down rabbit holes, reading papers, digging through datasets, talking to experts, and figuring things out for yourself.
• You have strong editorial judgment. You can recognize when something is genuinely interesting rather than merely popular.
• You're comfortable working across formats. An idea might become a Substack post, a YouTube video, a podcast conversation, a chart, or something we haven't tried yet.
• You're opinionated about media and the internet and have good instincts about what smart people actually want to read and watch.
• You don't need someone to hand you a story. You find them.

Responsibilities

• Research, write, and edit YC’s written content.
• Develop ideas and do research for YC videos, podcasts, interviews, and other media.
• Work directly with YC partners, founders, and the rest of the Media team to turn interesting ideas into great content.
• Dig into data to find surprising trends about startups, technology, founders, and what people are building.
• Find interesting people, projects, papers, companies, and ideas before everyone else is talking about them.
• Help us figure out what YC should be covering and why.
• Take complicated technical subjects and make them clear, accurate, and interesting.
• Experiment with new editorial formats and ways of telling stories.

Job description

Y Combinator in San Francisco is seeking an Editorial Researcher for the YC Media team to research, write, and edit YC’s content across videos, podcasts, essays, and original research. We’re looking for someone who is unusually curious, technically inclined, and a very good writer.

This role involves developing ideas with YC partners and founders, turning interesting concepts into compelling content, and experimenting with new editorial formats while making complex ideas accessible to a broad