Newsletter and Community Editor

Hampton VC LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Hybrid work

Job summary

Hampton VC LLC in New York City is seeking an Editor, Newsletter + Community to own two weekly newsletters and engage with a private network of founders. You’ll write, edit, and guide conversations in Slack, delivering entertaining, insightful content for a high-end audience.

The role is full-time and hybrid, based near Penn Station, with a compensation range of $80K–$110K plus performance bonus. Join a small, high-caliber team shaping founder discourse.

Qualifications

• A very good writer with about 3 years of experience, or a strong work sample.
• Entertaining and informative writing style; able to make dry topics engaging.
• Comfortable with high-powered founders and discreet handling of sensitive information.
• Self-starter who can work with minimal supervision.
• Fluent with AI tools; AI should not replace human-written content.

Responsibilities

• Write and send both newsletters every week.
• Engage Slack conversations with weekly prompts, polls, and follow-ups.
• Make niche founder topics fun to read with actionable advice on audits and AI.
• Protect member trust; secure sign-offs before featuring members.
• Test subject lines, formats, and layouts to improve open/click rates.
• Grow membership and retention.

Skills

Excellent writing

Editing

Marketing background

Communicating with founders

Tools

Notion

Airtable

HubSpot

Job description

About Hampton

Hampton is a private network for high-growth founders running tech-enabled companies with $3M+ in revenue.

Our members are ambitious builders scaling successful companies. They want more than tactical advice or transactional networking. They want depth, and they want peers who truly get it. They want a place to talk about the wins, the screwups, the quiet doubts, and the "okay... what now?"

They're scaling businesses, but they also know their next 10x comes from improving as leaders. That's why they join Hampton. We accelerate their growth.

At the center of Hampton are Core groups: small, hand-curated circles of founders who meet in person every month. They work through their hardest challenges, trade unfiltered feedback, and hold each other accountable in a way only true peers can.

The Role

NOTE: This is not a community manager role. You're not a moderator or a hall monitor. You're a talented writer with a real personality, someone who can hold their own with a room full of founders and maybe even make them laugh.

Every day, more than a thousand successful founders use Hampton's private Slack to trade stories, swap tools, admit mistakes, and solve problems you won't find in any business book. It's the best source material a founder newsletter could have. And it's your secret weapon.

This is a unique role. Here's how it works:

• You start conversations in Slack. You ask the question everyone's thinking, post the spicy take, and nudge a quiet thread until it gets going.
• The best conversations become the newsletters. That includes real problems, real fixes, and real outcomes from real members.
• Members see themselves featured, feel recognized, and post more.
• Repeat.

You’ll own two weekly newsletters from end to end:

• Five on Friday (public): Five sharp tips, tools, or finds from our community, sent to a wider audience. It's often the first taste of Hampton for founders who aren't members yet.
• The Hampton Dispatch (members only): A roundup of the best member conversations from Slack, from tricky problems to hard-won answers. Members should feel they'd miss something if they skipped it.

What You’ll Do

• Write and send both newsletters every week. You'll handle ideas, drafting, editing, and sending. Copy should be clean, on time, and unmistakably Hampton.
• Get people talking in Slack.
  • Weekly prompts like "Worst hire you ever made. Go."
  • Polls, hot takes, and the occasional friendly provocation
  • Follow-up questions in threads that bring out the details worth featuring
  • DMs to members to get the full story behind a great thread
• Make niche founder topics fun to read. Write advice on audits and AI for a very narrow, very high-end audience, while still holding space as the most entertaining thing in someone's inbox.
• Protect member trust. You'll be working with private conversations from high-profile founders, so you'll need to know what can be shared, what needs permission, and what never leaves the room. You'll get members' sign-off before featuring them in anything public.
• Keep improving the numbers. Test subject lines, layouts, and formats, and push open and click-through rates up every quarter.
• Grow membership and retention. Members should treat the newsletters as indispensable, and prospects should find them irresistible.

How We’ll Know It’s Working

• Every email is worth opening. We open each one because we want to, and we get real value from what's inside.
• The metrics move. Opens and clicks go up, prospects become members, and members talk about the newsletters in Slack.
• Slack gets livelier. There are more good conversations, more members featured, and more reactions to what you post.
• It sounds like Hampton. It's authentic, useful, and entertaining. We're cheeky, not mean.

Who You Are

• A very good writer. Ideally you have about 3 years of experience, but a body of work strong enough that we forget to ask also counts. You might come from marketing, editorial, or the Creator world. We care more about how you write than where you've worked.
• Entertaining and informative. You can make dry topics funny and you know where the line is.
• Comfortable with high-powered people. You can talk to a founder with a nine-figure company without losing your cool.
• Discreet. People trust you with sensitive information, and you keep that trust.
• Into founder culture. You're solid on business and tech concepts and actually enjoy this world.
• A self-starter. After a reasonable ramp-up, you won't need much oversight.
• Fluent with AI tools. We don't want the newsletters written by AI, but AI can handle a lot of the work behind the scenes.

Bonus Points For

• Growing an audience before, whether your own or a company's
• Writing quickly without sacrificing quality
• Experience with community or membership models
• Comfort with Notion, Airtable, HubSpot, or similar tools

Role Breakdown

• 65% Newsletter writing, editing, publishing
• 25% Slack conversation and engagement
• 10% Other writing responsibilities (e.g., lead magnets, one-off member emails)
• $80K to $110K salary, depending on experience
• Individual performance bonus
• 401(k) with company match
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• A highly visible role with direct access to Hampton's network of world-class founders and moderators

This role reports to the Head of Marketing and is full-time and hybrid, working from our office near Penn Station Tuesday through Thursday.

Role Title: Editor, Newsletter + Community

Department: Marketing

Location: NYC, (Hybrid) in office near Penn Station, Tuesday-Thursday

Type: Full-time

Reports to: Head of Marketing

Compensation: $80K to $110K, depending on experience, plus an individual performance bonus