Part-time Crossword Editor

Asystem; California (MO); Remote; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A startup in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a part-time Crossword Editor to enhance daily mini crosswords that integrate news with enjoyable wordplay. Work closely with a dynamic team to create engaging puzzles that resonate with current trends and culture.

Qualifications

• Regularly solve crossword puzzles and understand grid constraints.
• Experience editing or constructing crosswords.
• Impeccable command of English, clever and precise.

Responsibilities

• Generate, edit, and polish daily mini crosswords using AI tools.
• Ensure puzzles are fresh and grounded in the news.
• Collaborate to improve puzzle logic and balance difficulty.

Skills

Puzzle-solving

Editing

Language proficiency

Understanding of AI

Cultural awareness

Job description

Particle is a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area, reimagining the daily news experience. We are developing a mini crossword that combines the joy of wordplay with news, so users can spend a few minutes doing something fun while learning something new. We're looking for a part-time Crossword Editor to help shape, refine, and elevate these puzzles.

You'll be working with a small, product-minded team (ex-Twitter, Tesla, Periscope) that values clarity, curiosity, and speed, and you’ll report directly to Particle’s CEO.

What you’ll do:

• Use Particle’s AI tools to generate, edit, and polish daily mini crosswords
• Ensure puzzles are fresh, fun, and grounded in the news, culture, and trends
• Maintain consistency in tone, difficulty, and style across puzzles
• Collaborate with our product team to improve puzzle logic, balancing difficulty, and hint systems
• Advise Particle on future game design and ideas

Key requirements

• Puzzle-obsessed: You solve crossword puzzles regularly and understand grid constraints, clue types, and solving psychology. You also deeply understand the landscape of modern and popular crossword games
• Experience editing or constructing crosswords
• Impeccable command of English: clever, precise, and tuned to tone
• Experience with LLMs: You have a feel for AI’s strengths and weaknesses when it comes to language, logic, and nuance
• Passionate about news, culture, and trends
• Comfortable working asynchronously in a fast-moving startup

This is a part-time role (approximately 5-10 hours per week). We welcome both local and remote candidates that are authorized to work in the U.S.

Particle

Particle

Particle: Understand more, faster.

Particle: Understand more, faster.

At Particle, we’re reimagining your daily intake of news to help you understand more, faster. Particle lets you browse a personalized list of news stories, to get you quickly up-to-speed at a glance, or go infinitely deeper to understand various perspectives, broader context, and how a story has unfolded over time.