Senior Editor, The COO Club

San Diego, CA (Remote)

$100K/yr – $130K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the editorial and audience engine for practitioner-led content, shaping formats and decision-support tools for operations leaders.

  • Build and scale editorial experiences across newsletters, social, video, podcasts, and live events to grow subscribers and engagement.
  • Develop insight-led content and workflows around AI-enabled ops, systems, and cross-functional execution for executive audiences.
  • Orchestrate audience experimentation and performance optimization using SEO, distribution, and community signals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build engaged, community-powered editorial experiences
  • You will create serious-fun, expert-driven editorial and audience experiences that grow subscribers, increase newsletter engagement, and build loyal operations leadership audiences.
  • Create, assign, edit, write, and publish editorial content across articles, newsletters, social, short-form video, narrative video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and community formats
  • Develop content informed by real practitioner insight, including interviews, contributor conversations, operations and executive communities, surveys, Q&As, and social listening
  • Create audience experiences focused on operational strategy, AI-enabled workflows, organizational efficiency, cross-functional execution, systems and tooling, and modern executive leadership
  • Help program and support webinars, livestreams, roundtables, podcasts, and editorial event experiences
  • Repurpose editorial IP into newsletter blocks, social content, video clips, lead magnets, reports, and community assets
  • Ensure editorial output reflects the publication's tone, usefulness, authority, and audience relevance
  • Continuously identify opportunities to increase audience participation, contribution, sharing, and return engagement
  • 2. Create insight-led decision-support content that performs
  • You will create and improve content that helps operations leaders and executives make better strategic, operational, AI, and organizational decisions.
  • Assign, edit, write, optimize, and experiment with JTBD, workflow, systems, tools, AI, and practitioner-led content
  • Build content that helps operations leaders understand what to do, how to do it, and what tools, workflows, systems, or approaches can help
  • Improve SEO-driven and community-driven content with stronger practitioner insight, storytelling, visuals, structure, examples, CTAs, and internal journeys
  • Build topical authority around operational leadership, AI-enabled systems, organizational design, cross-functional execution, and executive decision-making
  • Produce and improve decision-support formats such as tools/tech roundups, benchmark reports, State of AI reports, operational playbooks, expert interviews, surveys, member exclusives, and lead magnets
  • Use Marfeel, GA, HubSpot, newsletter data, and audience performance signals to guide optimization and experimentation
  • Test headlines, hooks, formats, distribution strategies, CTAs, and conversion pathways to improve performance
  • Monitor performance across subscriber growth, newsletter clicks, AI visibility, topical authority, engagement, and discoverability
  • Share learnings, experiments, and repeatable editorial playbooks across the organization

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in related field
  • Proven experience in senior editorial leadership or brand-building roles
  • Experience creating B2B, practitioner-led, or professional editorial content
  • Strong editorial judgment and audience instincts
  • Strong interviewing and synthesis skills
  • Experience across multimedia formats including newsletters, social, video, podcasts, webinars, or events
  • Ability to operate with speed, experimentation discipline, and audience empathy
  • Understanding of SEO, distribution strategy, audience engagement, and AI discovery trends

Preferred

  • Experience covering operations leadership, organizational design, AI transformation, enterprise systems, workflow optimization, or executive decision-making
  • Experience creating benchmark reports, surveys, or insight-led content
  • Experience hosting or participating in podcasts, webinars, livestreams, or editorial events
  • Familiarity with modern operational tooling and enterprise systems ecosystems
  • Experience building community-powered editorial systems or contributor networks

Benefits

  • comprehensive benefits package
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Founded in 2012
Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN
79 employees (38 in marketing)