Senior Editor, People Managing People

Black & White Zebra•San Diego, CA

3d•$100,000 - $130,000•Remote

About The Position

People Managing People helps executives and people leaders build AI-enabled, human-centered organizations that thrive. We provide peer-driven insights, practical frameworks, operational playbooks, and community-powered experiences focused on HR strategy, AI in the workplace, talent and recruitment, employee retention and culture, workforce management, and modern people leadership. Our audience includes CHROs, chief people officers, HR and people leaders, talent and recruiting leaders, operations executives, and senior people practitioners looking for practical insight, trustworthy guidance, and meaningful professional connection. 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 people leadership and HR 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. It is an audience growth and editorial leadership role centered on creating serious-fun, 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 will help shape the voice, authority, growth, and audience experience of the brand. Your work should increase subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, return audience behavior, topical authority, and trust with people leaders and HR professionals.

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 technical workflows and operational 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 HR, people leadership, talent and recruitment, the future of work, SaaS, HR tooling, or AI in the workplace
Experience creating benchmark reports, surveys, or insight-led content
Experience hosting or participating in podcasts, webinars, livestreams, or editorial events
Familiarity with modern HR and people management tooling 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
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, 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, 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, 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 engineering contributors, AI practitioners, technical SMEs, partners, and executive 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