Managing Editor

The role

The Managing Editor will lead outbound messaging across content, marketing, and thought leadership to drive user growth, creator adoption, partnerships, recruiting, and fundraising. You will own the long-term strategy and day-to-day execution of the content marketing machine.

What you will do

• Oversee all outbound copywriting across long-form, social, paid, and executive thought leadership.
• Hire, train, and manage Cantina’s editorial team across consumer growth, creator growth, and Labs recruiting.
• Collaborate with executives and comms leadership to build and maintain key marketing messaging.
• Develop brand voices for Cantina’s core social accounts, Labs account, and executives.
• Populate and execute the content calendar across all channels.
• Help Cantina develop its own thriving, platform-native new media property.
• Learn and apply the latest editorial GTM strategies to beat the algorithms and win attention.
• Coordinate content amplification campaigns in collaboration with our community team.
• Seize on narrative opportunities that arise out of news, trends, and X debate.

Required qualifications

• Experience managing a multi-person creative or content marketing team.
• Exceptional persuasive writing skills for capturing attention.
• A fast-shipping, non-perfectionist, experimental mindset.
• High taste as a curator, with the ability to quickly sort good content from bad and give clear, direct feedback.
• A voracious appetite for learning the latest channels, algorithmic hacks, and content strategies.
• A data-driven approach, using metrics to iterate on content strategy.
• Chronically online instincts for spotting opportunities for rapid messaging.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience organizing internal communities to amplify content.
• Previously a managing editor of a modern media outlet.
• Former mid-to-late stage consumer content marketing team leader.
• A track record founding and growing a solo new media property.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous company equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina
• 42 days of paid time off, including: 15 PTO days, 10 sick days, 15 company holidays, 2 floating holidays
• Generous parental leave & fertility support
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Lifestyle spending account – $500/month to use however you’d like
• Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees
• One Medical membership

About the company

Cantina is a new social platform founded by Sean Parker with the most advanced AI character creator. Their bots are lifelike, social creatures that can interact across voice, video, and text.