Perplexity AI
Senior Editor
San Francisco · Senior
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About the role
- Our content spans a range of audiences, channels, and objectives.
- You will set the editorial bar for excellence and make every writer around you measurably better.
- Everything we ship should sound like we shipped it. - Be accountable.
Responsibilities
- Own editorial quality end to end.
- Plan and manage the editorial calendar. Run prioritization and production for a fast-moving pipeline in a high-growth environment.
- Build the editorial system. Evolve and own the style guides and workflows.
- Perplexity is seeking a Senior Editor to lead the quality and velocity of everything we publish.
- Deliver feedback that makes the writing and the writer better.
Requirements
- 7+ years in editing, writing, or editorial leadership, with a body of published or edited work that demonstrates exceptional command of language.
- You must be able to demonstrate an ability to adapt styles and voices for different channels or audiences.
- Exceptional ability to learn.
- A proven eye for narrative in messy, ambiguous, or highly technical material.
- Enough experience in the bullet above that you have a clear perspective on which rules you intend to break and when.
- Comfort using AI tools and the ability to articulate exactly where and how you incorporate them into your workflows.
- High flexibility of tone and mind. You must be able to demonstrate an ability to adapt styles and voices for different channels or audiences.
- High competence throughout the editorial stack: developmental editing, copy editing, content planning, and managing production.
- A demonstrated track record of mentoring writers and improving the quality of a team's output, not just your own.
- Refined judgment on all matters of structure, argument, and voice
- Deep familiarity with the rules of grammar, style, and storytelling.
- A passion for the truth well-told.
Benefits
- Move fluidly from high-level editorial vision to developmental editing to line-level copy editing.
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