Podcast Editor

Into The Margins tells the real stories behind entrepreneurship — the decisions, risks, failures, pivots, and lessons that shape the people building businesses.

We’re looking for a Podcast Editor to help turn those conversations into polished, engaging episodes.

You’ll take long-form founder interviews from raw recordings through final mix and delivery. The goal isn’t to make every conversation sound overly produced. It’s to create a clean, professional listening experience while preserving the personality and authenticity of the people we’re talking to.

This is a contract position with a weekly publishing cadence for an editor who can work independently, meet deadlines, and consistently deliver high-quality audio.

You’ll own the audio editing process from raw recordings to final delivery.

• Edit long-form founder interviews and podcast episodes.
• Review and organize multi-track recordings.
• Remove mistakes, distracting pauses, false starts, and unnecessary sections.
• Clean up background noise and other unwanted sounds.
• Improve vocal clarity and consistency.
• Edit remote interview recordings with varying audio quality.
• Add approved introductions, transitions, music, and other production elements.
• Mix and master episodes for a consistent listening experience.
• Export and deliver finished episodes in the required formats.
• Keep project files, recordings, and final assets organized.
• Communicate clearly about questions, problems, or revisions.

Great podcast editing isn’t just about cutting out mistakes.

It’s about understanding the conversation.

You’ll need to recognize when a pause adds emotion or emphasis and when it simply slows the episode down. You’ll know when an answer needs room to breathe and when tightening a section makes the story stronger.

Our conversations are meant to feel natural.

We don’t want to remove every imperfect moment or make founders sound scripted. We want the finished episode to feel like you’re sitting across the table from an interesting person having a great conversation.

Polished, but still human.

We’re looking for an experienced audio editor with a strong understanding of spoken-word production.

You should have:

• Experience editing podcasts, interviews, documentaries, or similar spoken-word content.
• Strong dialogue editing and noise-reduction skills.
• Experience working with multiple speakers.
• A solid understanding of EQ, compression, limiting, and loudness.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent file and project organization.
• The ability to work independently.
• A reliable process for handling long-form recordings.
• The ability to consistently meet weekly deadlines.

Experience working with remotely recorded interviews is a strong plus.

We’re a small team, so reliability matters.

You should be someone who:

• Notices the small audio problems other people miss.
• Understands pacing and storytelling.
• Knows when not to over-edit.
• Can work quickly without sacrificing quality.
• Communicates clearly and proactively.
• Is comfortable receiving feedback and making revisions.
• Takes ownership of the final episode.
• Cares about the experience of the person listening.

You don’t need to make every episode sound like a major network production.

You do need to make every episode sound good
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Our audience may forgive a simple production.

They shouldn’t have to fight through bad audio to hear a good story.

That means:

• Controlled background noise.
• Clean transitions.
• A mix that sounds good across headphones, phones, laptops, and car speakers.

You’ll help establish a consistent audio standard across the episodes we publish.

Experience with professional audio-production tools is expected.

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