Director of Content & Editorial

Human Agency

21h • Remote

About The Position

Human Agency is hiring a Director of Content & Editorial who will act as our “CEO of Content” at our business. This individual is the day-to-day owner of the content function, transforming the business into a high-quality, high-velocity content factory. This senior, hands-on leader will design, build, and run a scalable content plan across socials, web, and press. They will set editorial standards and cadence, and convert content into measurable brand and commercial outcomes. This role will create durable systems to enable repeatable, high quality output while delivering signature, business driving work.

Requirements

• 8+ years in editorial leadership, content operations or media production with a record of building highly-engaging content that moves audiences from curiosity to adoption and then action.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, as proven by existing published work as a writer or editor.
• Hands-on experience as a producer and editor with the ability to set strategy and execute to deadline.
• Proven ability to scale content output while sustaining editorial quality.
• Demonstrated experience connecting content to business outcomes including lead generation partnerships and productization.
• Strong cross functional skills and comfort briefing and partnering with senior leadership.
• Systems builder who designs durable processes rather than one-off fixes.
• High agency and bias for action.
• Editorial taste paired with strategic judgment.
• Calm under pressure and able to create clarity from ambiguity.
• Ego-free collaborator who earns trust through delivery.
• Mission aligned and committed to hiring up and raising standards.

Nice To Haves

• Experience launching or running a media company arm publication or content P&L
• Experience managing podcast, writing, and other media publication logistics
• Experience publishing flagship longform work such as books or flagship series.
• Familiarity with analytics automation and production tooling that links editorial workflows to commercial metrics.
• High technical fluency and a record of building or orchestrating tools and code-first workflows to maximize editorial output and preserve deep work time.

Responsibilities

• Direct responsibility for editorial strategy, calendar, production workflows, and consistent delivery across earned and owned channels, such as LI, X, Substack, IG, and web.
• Build the media company arm of Human Agency, including operating model, organization, budget, and initial go to market. Design and operate a content factory with repeatable processes, tooling, SLAs, cost models, and hiring plans to scale output without sacrificing quality.
• Set voice, editorial standards, approvals, and quality gates for flagship work and day-to-day publishing.
• Translate content into business results through lead generation, pipeline influence, events, paid products, partnerships, and other revenue streams.
• Architect technical leverage so you and the team maximize output and preserve deep work time. You will build and own personal and team systems that use automation, templating, and code first workflows to scale editorial capacity.
• Partner with Brand, Growth, Sales, Product, and Founder and executive leadership to align content with company strategy, sales priorities, and go to market.
• Define and own KPIs for output, quality, reach and commercial impact and report regularly to senior leadership.

Benefits

• Senior leader compensation with performance bonuses and potential equity.
• Remote friendly across the United States and Canada with occasional travel for offsites, launches and events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed