Senior Editorial Writer & Executive Ghostwriter

ModSquad; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ModSquad is seeking a Senior Editorial Writer & Content Strategist to join our Marketing team. You will uncover executive stories, shape them into pieces that resonate with CX, Trust & Safety, and digital operations, and ghostwrite for senior leaders across channels.

You will work with the Head of Brand and VP of Marketing to ensure editorial direction, while guiding a junior writer and coordinating with Account Management and Sales to surface client stories that inform and engage a B2B

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of professional writing experience (journalism/editorial/trade publishing).
• Demonstrable executive ghostwriting experience with demonstrable samples.
• Background writing for audiences in customer experience, enterprise SaaS, trust & safety, or digital operations.
• Familiar with trade publications, sponsored content, co-authorship, and editorial pitching.
• Comfortable with plain text workflows, Markdown, and GitHub.

Responsibilities

• Ghostwrite executive articles for distribution across owned, social, and external channels.
• Develop sponsored editorial and co-authored pieces for targeted trade publishers.
• Source and shape client and partner stories, anonymized or attributed, authentic in tone.
• Conduct interviews with internal SMEs, clients, and partners to extract angles.
• Support live programming, including office hours, podcast appearances, and recurring conversations with senior ModSquad voices.
• Shape and maintain editorial cadence across pillars: customer support, trust & safety, content moderation, AI/automation, business systems, and security.
• Monitor the competitive and trade publishing landscape and identify gaps for our voice.
• Provide editorial direction to a junior writer; review drafts for structure, clarity, and consistent POV.
• Partner with the VP of Marketing to align output with partner co-marketing needs.
• Partner with Account Management and Sales to identify client stories worth telling.
• Build a repeatable process for sourcing, developing, and clearing client stories.

Skills

Story Sense

Editorial Judgment

Craft

Self-Direction

Standards

Executive ghostwriting

Job description

ModSquad is seeking a Senior Editorial Writer & Content Strategist to join our Marketing team. You will uncover executive stories, shape them into pieces that resonate with CX, Trust & Safety, and digital operations, and ghostwrite for senior leaders across channels.

You will work with the Head of Brand and VP of Marketing to ensure editorial direction, while guiding a junior writer and coordinating with Account Management and Sales to surface client stories that inform and engage a B2B