Head of Editorial

Fluidstack•Austin, TX

7d•$215,000 - $288,000

About The Position

Fluidstack is seeking a Head of Editorial to own the editorial voice and content strategy for a deeply technical company. This role involves transforming complex infrastructure, AI, and energy work into compelling writing that resonates with engineers and AI labs. The Head of Editorial will build and manage the editorial pipeline for essays, technical narratives, executive communications, and launches, ensuring content is produced at the same pace as the company's rapid shipping cycles. A key responsibility is setting and maintaining the standard for Fluidstack's writing across all public-facing materials. This position requires close collaboration with founders, engineers, and marketing teams to extract and articulate the core stories from the people doing the work.

Requirements

Owned the editorial voice of a company or publication and shaped how a technical audience understood it.
Written or edited work that credible, skeptical readers respected, not marketing copy they scrolled past.
Ability to sit with an engineer or a founder and pull a sharp story out of dense technical work.
Built an editorial process that shipped consistently without flattening the writing into corporate sludge.
Ability to edit hard and raise the bar of everyone who writes around you.
Published on the timeline the news demanded, not the timeline a review cycle wanted.

Nice To Haves

Technical, infrastructure, energy, or deep-tech subject matter expertise.
Experience building an editorial function from scratch.
A portfolio of published long-form work.
Experience briefing and ghostwriting for executives.

Responsibilities

Own the editorial voice and content strategy for a deeply technical company, from long-form narrative to launch messaging.
Turn complex infrastructure, AI, and energy work into writing that engineers and AI labs take seriously.
Build and run the editorial pipeline of essays, technical narratives, executive comms, and launches at the speed the company ships.
Set the standard for how Fluidstack writes, and hold every public-facing piece to it.
Partner with founders, engineers, and marketing to pull the real story out of the people doing the work and onto the page.