Senior Editor — Remote, AI-Driven Operations Brand

Black & White Zebra; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Black and White Zebra seeks a Senior Editor to build The COO Club into a trusted, community-powered media brand for operations leaders and senior executives. You will define voice, strategy, contributor network, formats, and audience experience for an executive brand built on an existing audience foundation.

You will grow loyal, engaged audiences through authoritative, practitioner-led editorial experiences across articles, newsletters, social, video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and

Qualifications

• Strong editorial judgment and audience instincts.
• Experience creating B2B, practitioner-led, or professional editorial content.
• Strong interviewing and synthesis skills.
• Ability to turn complex operational challenges into useful, engaging editorial experiences.
• Experience growing newsletter engagement, subscriber audiences, or community participation.
• Experience across multimedia formats including newsletters, social, video, podcasts, webinars, or events.
• Comfort using analytics and audience signals to guide experimentation and optimization.
• Experience collaborating with contributors, SMEs, and strategic partners.
• Understanding of SEO, distribution strategy, audience engagement, and AI discovery trends.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to operate with speed, experimentation discipline, and audience empathy.

Responsibilities

• Build engaged, community-powered editorial experiences across formats.
• Create, edit, write, and publish content including newsletters, social, video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and forums.
• Develop content informed by practitioner insights through interviews, conversations, surveys, and listening.
• Shape editorial voice, strategy, and audience experience for the brand.
• Program webinars, livestreams, roundtables, podcasts, and events.
• Repurpose IP into newsletters, social blocks, video clips, lead magnets, and reports.
• Ensure outputs reflect tone, usefulness, and audience relevance.
• Identify opportunities to increase participation, sharing, and return engagement.
• Produce decision-support formats like playbooks, reports, interviews, surveys, and exclusives.
• Use analytics and performance signals to guide optimization.

Skills

Editorial judgment

B2B editorial content

Interviewing and synthesis

Newsletter growth

Analytics & audience signals

SEO knowledge

Contributor collaboration

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Speed and experimentation

Tools

GA

HubSpot

Newsletter platforms

Job description

Black and White Zebra seeks a Senior Editor to build The COO Club into a trusted, community-powered media brand for operations leaders and senior executives. You will define voice, strategy, contributor network, formats, and audience experience for an executive brand built on an existing audience foundation.

You will grow loyal, engaged audiences through authoritative, practitioner-led editorial experiences across articles, newsletters, social, video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and