[Hiring] Associate Editor @Pirate Wires

Role Description

We’re looking for a sharp, creative operator to work alongside our Executive Editor in shaping the editorial engine of Pirate Wires. This is a high-impact role for a high-agency writer-editor — someone with serious taste, a nose for the next big story, and the range to jump from editorial strategy to real-time publishing without dropping a beat.

As Associate Editor, you'll help lead Pirate Wires Daily — our fast-moving daily newsletter covering technology, politics, and culture. Key responsibilities:

• Editorial Strategy: Work closely with the Managing Editor to shape and execute high-level editorial direction, manage the pipeline, and refine internal workflows.
• Pirate Wires Daily: Manage our team of writers and contributors writing the best daily newsletter on the planet. Witty, irreverent, and a major growth driver for Pirate Wires.
• Writer Development: Source and onboard new contributors, manage relationships with freelancers and staff, and take full ownership of a major coverage vertical.
• Story Development: Help conceive, assign, and sharpen story ideas with the team — including the Managing Editor, staff writers, and Editor-in-Chief.
• Editing & Quality Control: Fact-check, proofread, and occasionally perform full-blown surgery on drafts to ensure everything we publish is sharp, accurate, and unmistakably Pirate Wires.
• Writing & Social: Pitch your own pieces, write when needed, and help program our social media accounts with punchy, well-timed takes.
• News Instincts: Be on-call when a story breaks. You’ll need to move fast and help decide whether we jump on it — and how.
• Trendspotting: Constantly surface the strange, exciting, and undercovered currents moving beneath the media landscape.

Qualifications

• Ideal for a former disgruntled English major who wanted to change the world and wound up writing clickbait. (You don’t need an English degree. We don’t care if you went to college.)

Requirements

• Send us a few writing samples and at least two story ideas. We may ask you to draft one as part of the process.