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Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate, and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy.

About Tech Policy Press

Tech Policy Press publishes news, analysis and perspectives intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. At a time of great challenge to democracies globally, Tech Policy Press seeks to advance a pro-democracy movement in tech and tech policy.

About the role

The role of Managing Editor is the conductor of Tech Policy Press, running its day-to-day editorial operations across web, newsletter, and podcast formats. It is a pivotal position on a small team that publishes daily commentary, analysis and reporting in close collaboration with an extensive network of writers—including contributing editors, fellows, freelancers and expert contributors based around the world. 

This is primarily an internally focused job, focused on the seam between editorial strategy and execution. The Managing Editor's day is built around a steady stream of consequential calls made quickly and with incomplete information—what to publish today, what to hold, who to commission next, where to add an edit cycle and where to cut one—adjusted continuously to the demands of the news cycle. The work is high-frequency and high-trust, enabling the team to deliver editorial products at the quality and cadence Tech Policy Press's readers and listeners expect.

The Managing Editor works in close partnership with the Editor and CEO and is expected to be supportive across the full range of organizational priorities. From time to time, the Managing Editor will also represent Tech Policy Press externally—participating in meetings, conferences, events, media appearances and other activities as the work requires.

Responsibilities

Editorial operations and production

• Run daily editorial operations across web, newsletter, and podcast; triage submissions, assign stories, manage the publication calendar, and oversee content from intake through publication.  
• Maintain and continuously refine the workflow, intake standards and quality bar that allow the team to publish at a sustainable cadence.
• Actively edit submissions from staff, fellows, and contributors. Oversee fact checking, copy editing and posting as needed, in coordination with the Editor and Senior Editors.

Contributor and fellows network

• Cultivate and steward Tech Policy Press's network of writers—Contributing Editors, Fellows, freelancers and one-time contributors—across time zones and regions.
• Help manage the Fellows program, including selection support, onboarding, editorial mentorship and ensuring fellows publish on a regular cadence.
• Work with the Editor and Senior Editors on commissioning, providing edits and developmental feedback to contributors and turning down pitches with care so writers remain part of the Tech Policy Press community.

Editorial strategy and planning

• Collaborate with the Editor and CEO on editorial strategy, content priorities, and the publication’s voice across formats, while maintaining Tech Policy Press’s editorial independence and standards.
• Build a forward-looking weekly and monthly view of the publication that anticipates the news cycle rather than reacting to it.
• Identify patterns in the queue—coverage gaps, recurring submission themes, underrepresented perspectives, emerging stories—and surface them to leadership.

Information products

• Oversee the development and ongoing evolution of Tech Policy Press's information products, including trackers, resource libraries and related databases and clearinghouses, into durable public resources that serve readers beyond the daily news cycle.
• Maintain and help develop editorial tools, tracking systems and analytics used by the team.

Support the Editor and CEO across organizational priorities 

• Support the Editor and CEO across organizational priorities, including fundraising, budgeting, hiring and partnerships—contributing to grant proposals, drafting job notices, participating in interviews and providing general management support.
• Represent Tech Policy Press publicly as needed: participating in meetings, conferences, events, media appearances and other external activities on behalf of the organization.
• Help maintain an inclusive, diverse and productive workplace culture across a distributed team.

What we are looking for

• Sharp editorial judgment: the ability to distinguish between what is timely and what is merely topical; what is expert and what is jargon-heavy; what is provocative and what is under-evidenced.
• Demonstrated experience running an editorial operation: managing submissions, commissioning, edit cycles, publication calendars and production workflows at a daily or near-daily cadence.
• Steady decision-making in a fast-paced environment: comfort making consequential calls with incomplete information, adjusting to the news cycle and doing it again the next day.
• Excellent contributor judgment and care: the ability to improve work through editing, commission clearly, give developmental feedback and decline pitches without damaging relationships.
• A strong network, or the ability to build one quickly, across writers, researchers, policy experts, journalists, advocates and technologists working in tech policy and democracy.
• Familiarity with the tech policy field, including areas such as AI governance, platform regulation, antitrust and competition, civil liberties, elections, digital rights and information integrity.
• Comfort working on a small, distributed team, across time zones, with a bias toward clarity, responsiveness and follow-through.
• Commitment to Tech Policy Press’s mission and to building a rigorous, inclusive and pro-democracy conversation about technology and power.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.