Senior Editorial Manager, Legal & Expert Content

Secretariat Advisors LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Secretariat is seeking an Editorial Manager in Atlanta to translate complex analysis into clear, precise content. You will edit expert reports, client alerts, and research pieces, working with senior experts and marketing teams to ensure accuracy and impact.

You will lead editorial standards, coach colleagues, and manage deadlines across diverse practices, from Construction to Economics, delivering high-quality materials for client engagements and proposals.

Qualifications

• Significant experience editing complex analytical, technical, legal, or professional services content for demanding audiences.
• Excellent developmental and line editing skills, preserving author intent and expertise.
• Proven ability to work directly with senior experts under deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a billable editorial resource to cross-practice teams, shaping and editing expert reports and other client deliverables.
• Improve structure, clarity, logic, tone, and readability while maintaining technical nuance.
• Edit and proofread client deliverables from drafts through final review.
• Collaborate with designers and data visualization specialists to integrate text and visuals.
• Scope editorial effort, manage deadlines, and record time per engagement.
• Develop and edit articles, client alerts, research summaries, and case studies.
• Interview experts, outline, draft, and transform analyses into authoritative content.
• Adapt content for different audiences while retaining technical rigor and expert voice.
• Support high-priority proposals and business development materials.
• Collaborate on firmwide messaging with Communications Manager.

Skills

Editing complex content

Legal content editing

Client deliverables

Billable work

Job description

Secretariat is seeking an Editorial Manager in Atlanta to translate complex analysis into clear, precise content. You will edit expert reports, client alerts, and research pieces, working with senior experts and marketing teams to ensure accuracy and impact.

You will lead editorial standards, coach colleagues, and manage deadlines across diverse practices, from Construction to Economics, delivering high-quality materials for client engagements and proposals.