Fractional Brand & Editorial Director

Vulcury Venture Studio and Advisors; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Vulcury Venture Studio and Advisors seeks a Fractional Brand & Editorial Director to translate founder inputs into precise, publishable content while preserving voice. This remote, part-time role focuses on brand consistency, editorial quality, and narrative coherence across long-form, social, website copy, and scripts.

The successful candidate will provide actionable feedback to international editors and operate under clear rules, with a 5–8 hour/week commitment and a 90‑day fractional trial.

Qualifications

• Strong editorial judgment and founder storytelling ability.
• Brand strategy and narrative craft are essential.
• Video literacy and comfort with AI topics.
• Reliable feedback and independent approval capability.

Responsibilities

• Own brand style and editorial quality; ensure narrative coherence and publication-ready content.
• Review long-form writing, social posts, website copy, scripts and video edits; flag inaccuracies.
• Provide actionable feedback to India writers/editors; escalate major changes to founder.
• Maintain Vulcury and Trustbridge messaging rules; avoid routine editorial micromanagement.
• Support planning with a Growth Operations Manager who controls schedules and people.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Brand strategy

Narrative craft

Video literacy

Editorial feedback

Adaptability to AI topics

Job description

Vulcury Venture Studio and Advisors | Contract

At Vulcury, we help businesses thrive through tailored consulting and bring innovative ideas to life with our venture studio.

We believe that the future of business is built on a foundation of innovation, strategy, and execution. That’s why we’ve developed two distinct yet complementary divisions:

Consulting Division

We provide strategic insights and tailored solutions that help businesses overcome challenges, scale operations, and seize market opportunities.

Venture Studio

Our studio transforms ideas into impactful startups by leveraging our expertise in ideation, incubation, and execution.

Together, these divisions allow Vulcury to tackle complex problems, create new opportunities, and make a meaningful impact on businesses and industries.

Job Description

This is a remote position.

Fractional Brand & Editorial Director

Employer: Vulcury | Location:Remote

Role:Fractional Brand & Editorial Director

Vulcury is an AI-focused venture studio developing and supporting businesses, initially including Trustbridge. The founder generates original ideas, voice recordings, transcripts, and high-level creative direction. We seek a fractional editorial leader to turn those inputs into precise, compelling published communication without requiring founder involvement in editorial minutiae.

Responsibilities: Own brand style, editorial quality, narrative coherence, and publication-ready approval for routine approved content. Preserve founder's distinctive voice, refine angles/briefs, review long-form writing, social posts, website copy, scripts and video edits; flag inaccurate or unsupported claims; provide actionable feedback to India writers/editors, through a Growth Operations Manager who controls schedules and people. Escalate major positioning changes and reputational issues to founder. Maintain separate Vulcury and Trustbridge messaging rules.

Explicit exclusions: Does not own hiring/supervision of India team, CRM, lead generation, general marketing execution, SEO operations, publishing logistics, analytics or daily campaign scheduling; need not personally draft or edit every asset.

Qualifications: Strong editorial judgment, founder storytelling, brand strategy, narrative craft, video literacy, consistent responsiveness, and comfort with entrepreneurial/AI subject matter. Reliable feedback and independent approval capability are essential.

Success:Coherent brand guides, consistently polished written and video work, brand accuracy, routine content independently approved, founder freed from approximately 70% of routine review effort.

Terms:Approximately 5–8 hours/week; 90-day fractional trial; modest cash retainer and possible later milestone bonuses/equity subject to performance and approvals. Applicants provide relevant editorial samples and founder-led storytelling examples.

Follow-up decisions for Vulcury project

1. Validate pay and weekly hours for India manager (broad role may exceed budget if full-time managerial expectations).

2. Define which Vulcury legal entity hires/contracts and how Trustbridge costs are allocated.

3. Decide whether Clancey receives first opportunity or whether to run a three-way paid work-sample evaluation immediately.

4. Create scoring rubrics, interviewing materials, 90-day scorecards, and employment/consulting term sheets.

5. Publish India manager listing; decide whether editorial role is an open listing or a private candidate brief first.