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About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About Works in Progress
Works in Progress is a magazine of scientific, technological and economic progress. We release new issues on a quarterly basis. We are a part of Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.
What you’ll do
Works in Progress needs a full time managing editor, based in the United States. Your key responsibilities will be:
- Managing our pipeline:
- Tracking our forthcoming pieces, managing our dealings with authors, and helping the team plan its editing and output;
- Managing WIP’s Twitter account;
- Managing WIP’s Substack; and
- Managing print production and distribution in North America.
- Editing:
- Helping writers to craft and develop their ideas, providing feedback throughout the writing and editing process;
- Editing articles to make sure everything we publish meets our standards and style – being extremely clear, logical, interesting, and hard to dispute;
- Working with other editors (internal and external) on our articles, overseeing their work.
- Commissioning:
- Commissioning new articles, and ensuring we are working with as many good US-based authors as we can;
- Network-building in the United States, finding new authors and new topics to commission articles on;
- Representing Works in Progress at relevant events; and
- Planning and running events in the US (with support).
We are looking for someone who:
- Has at least four years of experience in full-time editing for a publication with multiple contributors (a magazine, a newsletter, or similar); ideally at least some of these will have been external contributors.
- Has managed a large and complex pipeline of articles, books or similar over a number of years, from multiple contributors.
- Is familiar with Works in Progress’s existing work.
- Is able to find new authors across a wide range of subjects (not just those areas they have a subject matter expertise in) and judge whether article topics are interesting to people who already know about the field.
- Is organised and reliable.
- Writes clearly and simply.
You must be based in the United States. New York, Washington DC or San Francisco are preferred. We cannot support relocation for this role.
