Finance Editor

Sherman Portfolios; Coeur d'Alene (ID); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherman Research seeks an experienced editor to shape consumer-facing research into clear, publish-ready copy. You will ensure a single, consistent voice across daily notes, weekly briefs, and longer research pieces while upholding a strict compliance and style framework.

You will edit for clarity and audience, challenge rough drafts, and mentor freelance writers. The role is deadline-driven and requires navigating fast-moving market commentary with integrity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years editing professionally, with published finance or markets work you edited rather than wrote
• Proof you can take a technical draft and make it readable without losing the substance
• Enough market fluency to interrogate an analyst, though you are not required to be one
• A track record of holding a daily or near-daily publishing rhythm
• Evidence you've owned a voice or style guide across more than one writer
• Comfortable telling a subject-matter expert their draft isn't clear yet

Responsibilities

• Line and substantive editing on every consumer-facing piece, to publish-ready, on schedule
• One consistent voice across every cadence, channel, and surface
• The style guide. Writing it, enforcing it, revising it when reality disagrees with it
• The editorial calendar and the handoff protocol between the research desk and the writers
• Headlines and subject lines, including the final call on them
• Pushing weak or non-compliant claims back to the desk before compliance ever sees them
• Getting copy through compliance in one round
• Briefing and developing the freelance writers who file into you

Skills

Editing experience

Finance/markets knowledge

Clear communication

Voice/style consistency

Deadline-driven

Editorial judgment

Tools

Compliance awareness

Job description

Who we are

Sherman Research has been doing this since 1999. We're an SEC-registered firm in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho that builds signal-driven research, model portfolios, and technology for financial professionals.

The core of the business is a patented set of six proprietary indicators that track short, medium, long, and seasonal timeframes. When momentum shifts in either direction, the system fires a real-time signal, and advisors use those signals to decide how to allocate. That research sits underneath more than fifty Advance and Protect™ tactical allocation portfolios, the Sherman Launch System, the Command Module, and the Portfolio Toolkit.

Roughly 300 independent advisors, RIA firms, broker-dealers, and platform partners use our work, representing close to $2 billion in client assets. In 2026, WealthAdvisor named True Freedom Investing the fastest-growing TAMP in America. Sherman Research is the engine underneath it. Through our enterprise relationships, our research advises one in every five trades on the US stock market.

Two things to know before you apply.

• We're a research firm first. Everything we publish sits next to an investment process that people have real money in. Accuracy is the whole ballgame here.
• Faith shapes how we work. Sherman is a values-led company. We hire for character alongside competence, and we treat every applicant that way too. We're a for-profit company, and at the end of each year we donate 51% of our profits to advance the gospel.

Why this role exists

We are standing up a consumer-facing content engine. Research goes in one end and publish-ready copy comes out the other, every day.

Right now nobody owns the middle of that. An analyst's read and a writer's draft show up, and there is no one whose job it is to turn them into one voice at one standard before the deadline hits.

Think about whoever edits Finimize. That person is not the market authority in the room. Their job is to make an analyst's work land with somebody reading on a phone, and to keep the voice the same in a daily note, an educational guide, or a marketing email.

Who you're writing for

A W-2 employee in his late forties with money to invest, who's either frozen or sitting with an advisor who does nothing for him. He's smart, he's not a professional, and he's reading on his phone. Edit at his level without writing down to him.

Where your authority stops

Sherman's research team owns the market view. Models, signals, macro read, all of it. You never author or alter an original market call. You edit for clarity, voice, structure, and compliance safety. If a claim reads wrong to you, you push it back to the desk. You do not fix it yourself.

What you do own is the standard. We expect you to challenge the research team on whether a piece is actually understandable, whether the framing is honest, and whether a reader still cares by sentence three. That takes nerve more than expertise. You will be telling people who know more about markets than you do that their draft isn't clear yet.

What crosses your desk

• Daily: Short market note. Edited and cleared same day. Roughly 300 to 500 words.
• Weekly: Week ahead or week in review. Ties the daily notes together. Roughly 700 to 900 words.
• Monthly: Deeper research piece. Consumer-friendly but technical. Roughly 1,200 to 1,800 words.
• Quarterly: The flagship. Positioning, what the system did and why. Roughly 2,000+ words.
• Ongoing: Subject lines, headlines, landing page copy, in-product copy, lifecycle email.

The philosophy you'd be editing inside

Sherman is trend following and momentum. That has a few consequences for the writing.

We don't predict. We respond to what price is already doing, so copy that forecasts is off-brand and a compliance problem, and catching it is your job. The system is the story, which means pundit voice gets cut wherever it creeps in.

Drawdowns are built into trend following, and we would rather name them than write around them, so protect the honest version when you find it. A fair amount of this job is making "stay the course" read like a decision somebody made on purpose rather than a shrug.

What you own

• Line and substantive editing on every consumer-facing piece, to publish-ready, on schedule
• One consistent voice across every cadence, channel, and surface
• The style guide. Writing it, enforcing it, revising it when reality disagrees with it
• The editorial calendar and the handoff protocol between the research desk and the writers
• Headlines and subject lines, including the final call on them
• Pushing weak or non-compliant claims back to the desk before compliance ever sees them
• Getting copy through compliance in one round
• Briefing and developing the freelance writers who file into you

What you don't own

• The market view or any investment recommendation
• Design, layout, or email send mechanics
• Paid media, distribution strategy, or channel management
• Anything that touches Sherman's advisor-facing products
• Headcount decisions or contracts

What a week looks like

The work is async and deadline-driven. You manage your own time and hit dates without anyone chasing you. Daily copy has a same-day window, so this isn't a role you can batch on Friday afternoon.

Must-haves

• 5+ years editing professionally, with published finance or markets work you edited rather than wrote
• Proof you can take a technical draft and make it readable without losing the substance. Before-and-after samples are the strongest thing you can send us
• Enough market fluency to interrogate an analyst, though you don't need to be one
• A track record of holding a daily or near-daily publishing rhythm
• Evidence you've owned a voice or style guide across more than one writer
• Comfortable telling a subject-matter expert their draft isn't clear yet

Nice-to-haves

• Prior work inside a compliance or legal review process
• Familiarity with systematic, quantitative, or trend-following strategies
• Newsletter or consumer fintech background, especially at scale
• Experience building an editorial process from nothing
• SEO instinct for the evergreen pieces

Disqualifiers

• Portfolio is writing samples only, with no editing evidence
• Wants editorial authority over the market view
• Copyedits at the comma level but won't restructure a weak piece
• Can't or won't push back on the research desk
• No evidence of holding a recurring daily deadline