Editorial Director

Editorial Director

We're hiring an Editorial Director to run Cohere's editorial function. That's the part of the company responsible for everything we publish under our own name, in long form, with our own voice.
This isn't a green-field role. You'll inherit an established function with senior people already in seat and meaningful work already going out the door. Your job is to take what's in motion, raise the standard, push the ambition, and give the function a sharper editorial center of gravity.
This is not a content marketing role. We don't need someone to scale a case-study library or run a blog calendar tuned to SEO. We need someone who can build a real editorial property. The kind of work people read on a Saturday morning because they want to, not because they were retargeted into it. Think Stripe Press. The early years of Airbnb's magazine. Mailchimp's Courier. MIT Technology Review at its best. A24's editorial output. That register.
You'll own Cohere's editorial vision, our publishing calendar, our writers (staff and freelance), and our long-form output across writing, film, photography, podcasts, and eventually books. You'll be a peer to our Head of Brand Marketing and our Design Director. The three of you, reporting to the VP of Brand, set the creative direction of the company.
You're our head of storytelling, externally and internally. Externally, you build the editorial property and the body of work we publish under our name. Internally, you help the company tell its own story to itself, so the people making the work can feel what they're a part of and why it matters.
The role sits between art and science. The art is editorial taste: knowing what story is worth telling, who should tell it, and what register it lives in. The science is publishing discipline: running a real calendar, shipping on cadence, commissioning and editing at volume without losing the standard, and knowing how a piece actually finds its audience. We need both. People who can do one but not the other will struggle here.