Associate Editor

New York , United States

Produce quality content. Work on tech’s hottest research. Amplify the CBI voice. 

CB Insights is seeking a detail-oriented and motivated Associate Editor to help shape our data-driven research. You will join our Research team, which is composed of editors and analysts leveraging CB Insights data and data science products to identify key trends in the world of emerging technology. 

The role you’ll play:

You’ll work with a dedicated team of editors, ensuring that each piece of research the company produces is insightful, accurate, and digestible. In addition to providing an editorial lens, you will also be responsible for helping write our public-facing reports that uncover new trends and novel frameworks for thinking about the tech ecosystem. 

Central to the role is understanding CB Insights data, our proprietary data science products, and our Strategy Workstation to surface key technology and investment trends. You will also help our Research team build compelling visualizations that tell a story with our proprietary data.

About the Research team: 

Working as a member of the Research team is like having a front row seat to the future. There is no team quite like ours anywhere, inside or outside of tech. It's a unique opportunity to both work at a tech leader and spend your day helping produce and polish research on the technologies, business models, companies, and market trends of tomorrow across the hottest industries. You will be surrounded by some of the most curious and driven people you will ever meet, and will be held up to the highest standards every day. Our editors and analysts come from backgrounds as diverse as equity research, journalism, consulting, investment banking, VC, and more. As you grow, you will have the opportunity to work across all types of research, collaborate on cross-team projects, and learn all about new technology's impact on key markets and industries.

Your main tasks: 

  • Line edit, copy edit, and fact-check data-heavy research briefs, reports, and decks
  • Collaborate with industry analysts to level up report outlines and presentations
  • Write for and help produce our newsletter which reaches 250K+ readers
  • Design infographics and visualizations that tell a compelling story using our data
  • Update high-performing reports as needed

What you bring to the table: 

  • 2+ years of relevant editing and/or online publishing experience preferred
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Solid grasp of numbers and data and a zeal for accuracy
  • Keen interest in data storytelling, both written and visual
  • Knowledge of/interest in venture capital, startup ecosystem, or technology a huge plus
  • A superior ability to work under tight deadlines
  • Solid project management and communication skills
  • Ability to work in a collaborative, dynamic, and fast-changing environment
  • Willingness to pitch in on all tasks and roll with changing priorities
  • Strong opinions about the Oxford comma
  • BA/BS required

*Submission of cover letter with application required

Please note this is a US-based role.

In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for a bonus opportunity.

A little bit about our pay practices: Typically, we will hire at our Hiring Target, but actual starting pay may be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, market rate, the qualified pool of candidates, internal compensation, candidate experience, and budgetary constraints.

Compensation
$65,000$85,000 USD

What we're all about 

We're on a mission to advance the technology economy -- one driven by innovation, markets, and entrepreneurship. We believe a thriving technology economy powers a thriving society. By synthesizing, analyzing and visualizing millions of data points, we deliver a 360° view of the technology economy – powering the insights that buyers, sellers, investors, and advisors need. 

As a CBIer, you can expect to leverage generative AI to drive creativity, efficiency, and  strategic decision-making. Our culture is infused with the spirit of exploration and experimentation – and AI is a catalyst for new ideas and breakthrough solutions.

CB Insights Leadership Principles

At CB Insights, everyone is expected to be a leader. These leadership principles are like an operating system for our culture. Use the principles as a practical guide to making decisions.
We are what we repeatedly do. By living the principles outlined below, we will build an outstanding company and do insanely great work. 

  1. Solve customer problems. It’s our highest calling. Designing a product? Start from the customer problem it solves. Updating our sales process? Flip it around, and simplify the customer buying process. 
  2. Think BIG! Start small. Great changes start with a first step. Find it. Take it. Build a system around what works. This is the secret to bringing a vision to life.
  3. Go and see with your own eyes. Meet the customer, use the product, talk to the field. Great systems aren’t built from afar.
  4. Priorities: Choose one. Leaders give the gift of clarity. They find the most important thing and do it. Max power. Top speed.
  5. Danger zones: 
    • Bureaucracy. May the best ideas and execution win.
    • Complexity. Leaders use frameworks and systems to simplify. 
    • No commitment. Leaders don’t compromise just to get along. Debate. Disagree. But once a decision is made, commit.
    • Leaving what’s important unsaid or undone. No “circling back.”
  6. Data informs. Insight transforms.  Pull the thread. Ask why. Leaders are curious. They use what they learn to create clarity.
  7. Insist on excellence. Leaders set high standards and overcome obstacles. They do the kind of work they’re excited to share with the world.
  8. Live off the land. Leaders creatively use resources already available to them – especially AI – to execute and automate their work. 
  9. Good judgment. Leaders have it. Where it comes from: insight, listening, first-hand experience. How to apply it: carefully on big, hard to reverse decisions. Swiftly on limited, easy to reverse ones.
  10. Help others. Leaders know we’re building this together.

You’ll want to work here if

  • You are excited about how AI is transforming tech 
  • You are hungry for feedback and the chance to grow 
  • Your instinct is to work smarter not harder 
  • You love developing as a SME with a POV
  • You are motivated by challenges and big ideas 
  • You believe in radical personal accountability 

You don’t want to work here if: 

  • You are a tech pessimist 
  • Radical Candor is not your style 
  • You like to build big processes 
  • You stay @ the 30,000 foot view instead of digging into the details 
  • You prefer to operate in your comfort zone 
  • You expect to be judged by outputs instead of outcomes 

What we offer: 

  • Award-winning culture: recognized by Inc., Glassdoor, and Built-in for leadership, career opportunity, and engagement 
  • Industry Insight: over 500k+ people follow our tech newsletter: sign up here
  • Holistic compensation: cash, rich healthcare insurance benefits including PPO, HSA, and FSA options, Gympass, multiple  mental health resources, pet insurance, 401k match, annual education stipend, and generous paid time off.  

About our pay practices

We believe in recognizing and rewarding excellence. Our commitment to fairness means that compensation decisions consider factors like qualification, location, internal equity, and market data.

Our compensation philosophy goes beyond base salary. To align with your dedication and success, we offer total compensation as innovative as the work we do - this includes variable cash potential, 401k matching, flexible healthcare options plus mental health and gym resources, professional development and education stipends, great PTO, and more.

Equal Opportunity Employer: At CB Insights we know that innovation comes from collaboration, belonging, and diverse perspectives. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - all applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

CB Insights is a private company with a business analytics platform and global database that provides market intelligence on private companies and investor activities.

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