Black & White Zebra

Black & White Zebra

Senior Editor, The COO Club

USA · Exec · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$100k-$130kDetected 19 days ago
A/B TestingProject ManagementSEOHubSpotResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • You will help define the voice, editorial strategy, contributor network, content formats, and audience experience for a new executive brand built on an existing audience foundation.
  • This role is responsible for growing loyal, engaged operations leadership audiences through authoritative, practitioner-led editorial experiences across articles, newsletters, social, video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and strategic partnerships.
  • This is not a traditional editing role focused only on publishing content.

Responsibilities

  • Build engaged, community-powered editorial experiences
  • 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
  • Create insight-led decision-support content that performs
  • 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
  • Build topical authority around operational leadership, AI-enabled systems, organizational design, cross-functional execution, and executive decision-making

Requirements

  • You know how to turn practitioner insight into useful editorial experiences that feel credible, clear, visual, engaging, and worth sharing.
  • You are not just a writer or editor.
  • You are a builder of audience systems, community loops, and repeat engagement.
  • You are comfortable experimenting with formats, workflows, packaging, distribution strategies, and audience experiences to improve performance over time.
  • Experience creating B2B, practitioner-led, or professional editorial content
  • Ability to turn complex operational challenges, executive priorities, and organizational topics into useful, engaging editorial experiences
  • Experience growing newsletter engagement, subscriber audiences, or community participation
  • Experience across multimedia formats including newsletters, social, video, podcasts, webinars, or events
  • Comfort using analytics and audience signals to guide experimentation and optimization
  • Ability to operate with speed, experimentation discipline, and audience empathy

Compensation

  • This full-time position is available as a remote role that offers an annual base salary in the range of $100,000 to $130,000 USD.
  • The range is a guide for the expected skills, knowledge, and experience for new hires based in USA only.
  • Seniority level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data.
  • This means ranges will vary for candidates based outside of USA and/or at different seniority levels.
  • In addition to annual salary, full-time employees are eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.

Company info

  • We're a rapidly growing, independent media tech company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
  • Since 2012, our portfolio of influential digital publications has been helping millions of people succeed at work.
  • We got our start in 2011 as The Digital Project Manager blog, founded by our CEO Ben Aston.
  • Since then, we've grown into an international team of 70+ creators, strategists, and innovators with a portfolio of more than 15 online publications.
  • We enjoy an impact-driven environment that combines the agility of a startup with the creativity of an agency and the diversity of a global company.
  • In a world of evolving skills, practices, and technology, we're creating a playbook for the future of work and empowering communities to create it with us.
  • Watch this video to learn why the team love working at BWZ!
  • Diversity Equity and Inclus
  • Our brands cover thought leadership for executives in project management, people management, product management, tech, marketing and many others - with the goal of connecting people with knowledge, skills and tools they need to succeed professionally in the age of AI.
  • We've previously ranked #30 in The Globe and Mail's Fastest Growing Companylist as well as Deloitte'sFast 50 program, received a CMI award for Best Digital Publication for The Digital Project Manager-and we're listed in both Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers, and Best Employers in BC!
  • All of this growth is driven by our commitment to our mission: In a world of evolving skills, practices, and technology, we're creating a playbook for the future of work and empowering communities to create it with us.
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