Senior Editor, Managing People

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Editor to help build People Managing People into a trusted, community-powered media brand for people leaders and HR professionals. This role is responsible for growing loyal, engaged audiences through authoritative, practitioner-led editorial experiences across articles, newsletters, social, video, podcasts, live streams, events, and strategic partnerships. It is an audience growth and editorial leadership role centered on creating decision-support content that helps people leaders make better decisions, build healthier cultures, adopt AI‑enabled ways of working, strengthen their teams, and navigate the changing realities of modern people leadership.

• You understand how to create editorial brands that professionals actively trust and return to.
• You are deeply curious about how people leaders and HR professionals operate, lead teams, adopt AI‑enabled workflows, build culture, develop talent, and navigate organizational complexity.
• You know how to turn practitioner insight into useful editorial experiences that feel credible, clear, visual, engaging, and worth sharing.
• You are a builder of audience systems, community loops, and repeat engagement.
• You think beyond articles and understand that modern editorial engagement happens across newsletters, video, podcasts, social, community discussions, live streams, events, partnerships, search, and AI discovery experiences.
• You are comfortable experimenting with formats, workflows, packaging, distribution strategies, and audience experiences to improve performance over time.
• You care about usefulness, clarity, audience trust, and measurable impact.

You will create serious‑fun, expert‑driven editorial and audience experiences that grow subscribers, increase newsletter engagement, and build loyal engineering, AI, and technology leadership audiences.

• Build engaged, community‑powered editorial experiences.
• Create, assign, edit, write, and publish editorial content across articles, newsletters, social, short‑form video, narrative video, podcasts, live streams, events, and community formats.
• Develop content informed by real practitioner insight, including interviews, contributor conversations, engineering communities, surveys, Q&As, and social listening.
• Create audience experiences focused on engineering leadership, AI adoption, scalability, platform reliability, developer productivity, infrastructure, security, and modern technology execution.
• Help program and support webinars, live streams, round tables, 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.
• Assign, edit, write, optimize, and experiment with JTBD, workflow, systems, tools, infrastructure, AI, and practitioner‑led content.
• Build content that helps technology leaders understand what to do, how to do it, and what tools, systems, workflows, 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 engineering leadership, AI implementation, infrastructure, developer workflows, security, scalability, and operational execution.
• Produce and improve decision‑support formats such as tools/tech roundups, benchmark reports, State of AI reports, engineering playbooks, expert interviews, surveys, member exclusives, and lead magnets.
• Use Marfeel, GA, Hub Spot, 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.
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