Senior Editor, The COO Club

Black & White Zebra

39d•$120,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The COO Club is a new senior media brand for operations leaders, focusing on AI-enabled operations, organizational design, cross-functional execution, operational efficiency, systems optimization, scalable delivery, and modern executive leadership. It aims to help operations leaders make better decisions in the AI era through peer-driven insights, practical frameworks, executive playbooks, software guidance, events, and community-powered experiences. The audience includes COOs, VPs of Operations, Heads of Delivery, operations executives, PMO leaders, transformation leaders, and senior practitioners. The Senior Editor will play a key role in building this brand, defining its voice, editorial strategy, contributor network, content formats, and audience experience. This is an audience growth and editorial leadership role focused on creating content that helps operations leaders make better decisions, build scalable systems, adopt AI-enabled ways of working, drive organizational efficiency, and navigate modern executive leadership. The goal is to increase subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, return audience behavior, topical authority, and trust.

Requirements

Strong editorial judgment and audience instincts.
Experience creating B2B, practitioner-led, or professional editorial content.
Strong interviewing and synthesis skills.
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.
Experience collaborating with contributors, SMEs, and strategic partners.
Understanding of SEO, distribution strategy, audience engagement, and AI discovery trends.
Strong organizational and communication skills.
Ability to operate with speed, experimentation discipline, and audience empathy.

Nice To Haves

Experience covering operations leadership, organizational design, AI transformation, enterprise systems, workflow optimization, or executive decision-making.
Experience creating benchmark reports, surveys, or insight-led content.
Experience hosting or participating in podcasts, webinars, livestreams, or editorial events.
Familiarity with modern operational tooling and enterprise systems ecosystems.
Experience building community-powered editorial systems or contributor networks.

Responsibilities

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.
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, 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.
Improve SEO-driven and community-driven content with stronger practitioner insight, storytelling, visuals, structure, examples, CTAs, and internal journeys.
Build topical authority around operational leadership, AI-enabled systems, organizational design, cross-functional execution, and executive decision-making.
Produce and improve decision-support formats such as tools/tech roundups, benchmark reports, State of AI reports, operational playbooks, expert interviews, surveys, member exclusives, and lead magnets.
Use Marfeel, GA, HubSpot, 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.
Identify, recruit, and manage COOs, operations executives, operational SMEs, partners, and contributor voices.
Build contributor → content → audience → community growth loops.
Act as a visible host and guardian of the brand across newsletters, events, podcasts, social, community spaces, and contributor relationships.
Package and distribute content across newsletter, social, search, Discover, podcast, video, community, partner, and digital PR channels.
Collaborate on co-created reports, research, surveys, multimedia initiatives, and strategic partnerships.
Represent the brand through events, panels, podcasts, conferences, and external opportunities when useful.
Build and maintain reusable insight libraries containing interviews, quotes, patterns, transcripts, and community intelligence.
Track relationship-building and distribution performance based on subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, RFV, authority signals, and audience quality.