Senior Editor

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Editor to lead the quality and velocity of everything we publish. You will set the editorial bar for excellence and make every writer around you measurably better.

If you treat language with pride and want to build a world‑class editorial function from the ground up, this role is for you. You will mentor writers, shape voice across channels, and drive a fast‑moving production pipeline in a high‑growth environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in editing, writing, or editorial leadership with published work.
• Flexibility of tone and mind to adapt styles for channels/audiences.
• Competence across editorial stack: developmental editing, copy editing, planning, production.
• Track record mentoring writers and improving a team's output.
• Exceptional ability to learn and apply feedback.
• Judgment on structure, argument, and voice.

Responsibilities

• Own editorial quality end to end.
• Reject mediocrity and demand clarity and accuracy.
• Be the company voice; enforce consistent style across outputs.
• Plan and manage editorial calendar; lead production in a fast-paced environment.
• Edit at all levels: provide feedback to writers and guide editors.
• Mentor and attract strong writers and elevate writing quality.
• Build and evolve editorial systems, style guides, workflows.
• Collaborate across the company; be the content driving force.

Skills

Editing leadership

Mentoring writers

Editorial judgment

Copy editing

Content planning

Production management

Adaptable tone

AI tool usage

Tools

AI tools

Job description

the company is seeking a Senior Editor to lead the quality and velocity of everything we publish. Our content spans a range of audiences, channels, and objectives. You will set the editorial bar for excellence and make every writer around you measurably better.

If you treat a clunky sentence and a sprawling launch narrative as the same kind of craft, take pride in language without being precious about deadlines, and want to build a world‑class editorial function from the ground up, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Own editorial quality end to end.
• Reject mediocrity.
• Demand clarity. Ensure accuracy.
• Be the company. Evolve and enforce our voice. Everything we ship should sound like we shipped it.
• Be accountable. Hold objective authority in a sea of subjective opinions.
• Plan and manage the editorial calendar. Run prioritization and production for a fast-moving pipeline in a high-growth environment.
• Edit at every level. Player-coach plus team owner and stadium sponsor. Move fluidly from high-level editorial vision to developmental editing to line-level copy editing. Deliver feedback that makes the writing and the writer better.
• Mentor, elevate, and attract excellent writers. Earn the respect of strong writers by making them stronger.
• Make sense of things. Make sense to people.
• Build the editorial system. Evolve and own the style guides and workflows.
• Work productively across the company. Everyone wants content, and you’re the content.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in editing, writing, or editorial leadership, with a body of published or edited work that demonstrates exceptional command of language.
• High flexibility of tone and mind. You must be able to demonstrate an ability to adapt styles and voices for different channels or audiences.
• High competence throughout the editorial stack: developmental editing, copy editing, content planning, and managing production.
• A demonstrated track record of mentoring writers and improving the quality of a team's output, not just your own.
• Exceptional ability to learn.
• Refined judgment on all matters of structure, argument, and voice
• A proven eye for narrative in messy, ambiguous, or highly technical material.
• Deep familiarity with the rules of grammar, style, and storytelling.
• Enough experience in the bullet above that you have a clear perspective on which rules you intend to break and when.
• Comfort using AI tools and the ability to articulate exactly where and how you incorporate them into your workflows.
• A passion for the truth well-told.