Senior Writer, Editor & Research Lead

Box•Redwood City, CA

48d•$160,500 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Box needs an AI-obsessed writer, researcher and editor who creates the original storytelling, reporting and research projects that establish Box as an authority on AI in the enterprise. You are immersed in the AI conversation, and can build relevant, credible, differentiated editorial content that no competitor can replicate. This is a player/coach role — you spend the majority of your time creating, but you also direct and develop a small team of experienced writers and editors. Being fluent in the fast-moving AI conversation is an essential foundation for this role. You follow every major model release. You know the difference between what’s real and what’s hype. You understand the debates around agents, governance, enterprise adoption, and multimodal AI well enough to form your own opinions and defend them. When a model provider ships a new capability or a competitor launches an agent framework, you already know what it means for enterprise buyers — and you have a point of view on it. That AI fluency is what makes everything else in this role work. You are part of Box’s editorial team, working with multimedia journalists and editors to keep Box present and credible in the live AI conversation. Your focus is the written editorial response: the fast-turn blog post when a major model drops, the analysis piece that contextualizes a new enterprise AI trend, the quick- turn explainer that shows Box has a genuine point of view. You also produce deeper, more evergreen editorial — the anchor stories, features, and research-driven content that compounds authority over time. You also own Box’s fledgling research program. Starting with our annual State of AI and expanding into targeted monthly knowledge worker surveys, you design the research agenda, manage vendor relationships, interpret the data, and turn findings into flagship content that fuels the entire content operation — blog posts, social, executive talking points, sales enablement, and PR pitches. Critically, research findings don’t just live in reports — you feed them back into the daily conversation, ensuring the rest of our content team have proprietary data points to weave into their own content.

Requirements

Deep, demonstrable AI fluency: published writing about AI, a track record of engaging with the AI conversation publicly, or professional experience working in or covering the AI space. We will care about your opinion on recent model releases, enterprise AI trends, and your opinion on where things are heading.
5+ years in editorial writing, journalism, or content marketing with a portfolio demonstrating strong writing on technology topics.
Experience managing or significantly contributing to a proprietary research program: survey design, data analysis, and research-to-content production.
Experience conducting interviews with technical and executive subjects and turning them into published content.
Experience working in or covering B2B technology, enterprise SaaS, AI, or adjacent categories.
Strong editorial judgment: you know what makes a story worth telling and can work at both fast-lane and craft-lane speeds.
Experience directing or managing a small team of writers or editors — setting priorities, allocating work, and maintaining quality standards.

Nice To Haves

You’ll thrive here if you: Live and breathe AI. You follow model releases, you test new tools, you have opinions on where enterprise AI is heading and what’s hype vs. what’s real. You can talk credibly about RAG, agentic workflows, enterprise security architectures, and multimodal AI without needing a briefing doc. This is non-negotiable.
Are a strong writer who can take complex AI topics and make them clear, compelling, and credible for a business audience — and can do it fast when the moment demands it.
Are a natural interviewer who can have a genuine technical conversation with an AI engineer or CTO and extract the insight that makes for a great story.
Are data-literate: comfortable interpreting survey results, spotting meaningful patterns, and knowing the difference between a statistically interesting finding and a misleading one.
Can manage a complex program (the research initiative) while still producing editorial content on a regular cadence and responding to fast-lane moments.
Are a natural player/coach: you lead by doing, you elevate others through your own standard of work, and you can direct a small team without becoming a full-time manager.

Responsibilities

Write fast-turn editorial content (target: <48 hours) when the AI conversation demands it — analysis pieces, explainers, POV posts, and contextual features that show Box understands what’s happening and has a credible angle.
Write 2–3 more evergreen pieces per month: longer-form authority-building thought leadership, data-driven analysis, technical features, executive Q&As, and research- driven narratives.
Conduct interviews with Box executives, subject matter experts, customers, and external experts.
Feed signal from the AI conversation back into the editorial plan: surface what’s trending, what questions the market is asking, and what stories Box should be telling.
Own Box’s research program end-to-end: define the research agenda, design survey methodology (in collaboration with the team and external vendors), manage timelines and vendor relationships, and drive production from data collection through published output.
Launch and sustain the State of AI research report as Box’s annual flagship study. Expand into smaller, more timely knowledge worker surveys on topics where Box has a credible angle.
Turn research findings into a full content slate: the anchor report, blog posts around individual findings, social-ready data points, executive talking points, sales enablement materials, and pitchable stories for PR.
Maintain a queryable repository of research findings, data points, and quotable insights that other team members draw from.
Collaborate with Comms on pitchable research stories and with PMM on aligning research topics to campaign themes.
Partner with the New Media Studio to turn research into visual and video formats — data graphics, short explainer videos, social-native data cards.
Contribute to ongoing editorial planning: bring story ideas grounded in research, interview insights, and what you're seeing in the live AI conversation.
Direct line management of a brand editor and a contractor writer/editor.
Allocate work across the writing team in coordination with editorial priorities, capacity and deadlines.
Set deadlines, unblock progress, and ensure the team's output meets the editorial quality bar.
Coach and develop writers — helping them build AI fluency, sharpen their editorial craft, and raise the quality of their output.
Edit and elevate submitted content — raising the quality bar on technical accuracy and AI credibility.