Managing Editor

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

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health benefits

RRSP matching

Parental leave

Enrichment benefits

Vacation days

Travel budget

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is seeking a Managing Editor to run the editorial team’s production pipeline across all content streams, ensuring on-time delivery at a high-quality baseline. The role collaborates with the Editorial Content Director and other stakeholders to keep schedules, prioritise work, and maintain style standards.

The Managing Editor will manage freelancers and internal contributors, track progress, and present performance metrics to cross-functional partners, with remote-friendly/hybrid options

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in editorial or content operations.
• Experience running multi-stream or multi-format editorial pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the master editorial calendar across all content streams.
• Manage the brief-to-publish workflow: assigning work, deadlines, tracking status.
• Own the review/approval routing for each content type (legal, PR, engineering, customer stories, product content).
• Set and enforce production-level style and quality standards.
• Manage relationships with freelancers, contractors, and cross-functional SME contributors.
• Report throughput, capacity, and delivery risk to Head of Editorial Content.

Skills

Editorial operations

Multi-stream pipelines

Workflow management

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 Managing Editor runs the operational engine of the editorial team. This role turns strategy and drafts into a functioning production pipeline across all content streams (thought leadership, developer content, customer stories, product marketing content, etc.). This person is most responsible for whether things ship on time and at a consistent bar.

Core responsibilities:

• In conjunction with Editorial Content Director, own and maintain the master editorial calendar across all content streams, sequencing work so there is no competition for the same limited writing capacity

• Manage the brief-to-publish workflow: assigning work, setting deadlines, tracking status, unblocking bottlenecks

• Own the review/approval routing for each content type: legal and PR for thought leadership, engineering/DevRel sign-off for developer content, customer and legal approval for customer stories, product marketing alignment for product content

• Set and enforce production-level style and quality standards (distinct from the Content Strategist's audience/strategy standards)

• Manage relationships with freelancers, contractors, and cross-functional SME contributors who feed content into the pipeline

• Report to the Head of Editorial Content on throughput, capacity, and delivery risk

• Own and manage the 24-hour review in the blog tracker

• Run competitive and content-gap analysis to identify where the team's limited capacity should go

• Ensures style guide story alignment (with Content Editor contributing)

• Present editorial performance metrics to cross-functional stakeholders in conjunction with Editorial Director

• Partner with Growth Marketing on content positioning alignment

• Work with MarOps on attribution and any potential pipeline content

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in editorial or content operations

• Experience running multi-stream or multi-format editorial pipelines (not just a single blog)

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.

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.