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Senior Editor 🔥


We’re looking for a Senior Editor to join a team focused on community, customer and influencer communications. Reporting to the Director of Community & Influencer Relations, this person will be responsible for sourcing, developing, writing and editing content to be featured on The ReadME Project [1].

The right candidate is an experienced journalist, who understands how to develop content that is personal to GitHub’s community of open source developers.

The team’s work is highly visible, so candidates should have experience working with executives and senior leadership. They possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, high levels of empathy, and are a multitasking pro.

Responsibilities:

  • Produce compelling open source community journalism and thought leadership.
  • Write, edit, and/or repurpose stories to meet specific objectives for specific GitHub content mediums.
  • Work with software development subject matter experts across the company, interview customers, and conduct additional research to develop original stories of open source software development moving humanity forward.
  • Find smart, creative ways to develop or reframe content for and from strategic articles, blogs, The ReadME Podcast and executive presentations.
  • Help support requests for developer narratives for internal and external events.
  • Regularly assess the performance/impact of the content we publish and look for innovative techniques for storytelling.

Qualifications and skills:

  • Between 9-11 years experience in journalism and content strategy.
  • Knowledge of the software development industry and DevOps concepts.
  • Ability to see left-to-right. Can move seamlessly between high-level, strategic thinking and more nuanced, tactical work.
  • Skilled at cross-functional, influence-driven collaboration to achieve results.
  • Experience working closely with executives and senior stakeholders
  • Ability to be nimble, empathetic, and collaborative.
  • Demonstrated ability to work calmly and maintain good judgment in high-stress environments

  1. https://github.com/github/internal-jobs/issues/github.com/readme

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