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How do professional editors typically collaborate with writers and other stakeholders throughout a project?

Professional editors often work closely with writers, subject-matter experts, and sometimes designers or project managers during the editing process. Regular communication is key, as editors provide feedback, clarify intent, and ensure the content meets style and quality standards. Collaboration tools such as tracked changes in documents and project management platforms are commonly used to facilitate transparent revisions and feedback cycles. Editors also balance multiple deadlines and priorities, making organizational skills essential for successful teamwork.

What is professional editing?

Professional editing is the process of reviewing, revising, and refining written content to improve its clarity, accuracy, structure, and overall quality. Editors ensure that documents are grammatically correct, logically organized, and tailored to meet the needs of the intended audience. This process can involve various levels of editing, including proofreading, copyediting, and substantive editing, depending on the project's requirements. Professional editors work on a wide range of materials such as books, articles, reports, and marketing content. Their expertise helps writers present their ideas effectively and professionally.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Professional Editor, and why are they important?

To excel as a Professional Editor, you need exceptional language proficiency, a keen eye for detail, and a strong understanding of grammar and style guidelines, often supported by a relevant degree or editing certification. Familiarity with style manuals (such as AP, Chicago, or MLA), editing software (like Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word Track Changes), and content management systems is typically required. Strong communication, time management, and adaptability help editors collaborate effectively with writers and meet tight deadlines. These skills ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency in published materials, upholding quality standards and client expectations.

What is the difference between Professional Editing vs Copy Editing?

AspectProfessional EditingCopy Editing
CredentialsTypically requires editing certifications or degrees in editing, journalism, or related fieldsOften requires similar credentials, focusing on language and grammar expertise
Work EnvironmentWorks on manuscripts, articles, books, and digital content across various industriesFocuses on correcting grammar, punctuation, style, and consistency in texts
Employer & Industry UsageUsed by publishing houses, media companies, and freelance editorsCommonly employed by publishers, magazines, and online content creators

Professional editing involves comprehensive content review, including structure, clarity, and style, while copy editing primarily focuses on correcting language errors and ensuring consistency. Both roles require strong language skills and often overlap, but professional editing offers a broader scope of content refinement.

What are the most commonly searched types of Editing jobs in Colorado? The most popular types of Editing jobs in Colorado are:
Infographic showing various Professional Editing job openings in Colorado as of June 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 98% Full Time, and 1% Part Time. Highlights an 75% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 21% Remote job distribution.

Senior Editor, The CMO Club

Black & White Zebra

Denver, CO โ€ข On-site

Full-time

Posted 13 days ago


Job description

About The CMO Club:

The CMO Club helps marketing leaders build AI-powered systems that drive growth, scale impact, and own revenue.

We provide peer-driven insights, practical frameworks, executive playbooks, and community-powered experiences focused on demand generation, AI-enabled marketing, brand and communications, marketing operations, customer marketing, and modern marketing execution.

Our audience includes CMOs, VPs of marketing, demand generation leaders, brand and communications leaders, marketing operations professionals, and senior marketing practitioners looking for practical insight, trustworthy guidance, and meaningful professional connection.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Editor to help build The CMO Club into a trusted, community-powered media brand for marketing leaders and senior marketing professionals.

This role is responsible for growing loyal, engaged marketing leadership audiences through authoritative, practitioner-led editorial experiences across articles, newsletters, social, video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and strategic partnerships.

This is not a traditional editing role focused only on publishing content. It is an audience growth and editorial leadership role centered on creating serious-fun, decision-support content that helps marketing leaders make better decisions, build demand, adopt AI-powered ways of working, scale marketing systems, and navigate the changing realities of modern marketing leadership.

You will help shape the voice, authority, growth, and audience experience of the brand.

Your work should increase subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, return audience behavior, topical authority, and trust with marketing leaders and senior marketing professionals.

Who You Are:

You understand how to create editorial brands that professionals actively trust, return to, and recommend.

You are deeply curious about how marketing leaders and senior marketing professionals operate, make strategic decisions, adopt AI, build demand, scale teams and systems, and navigate complexity.

You know how to turn practitioner insight into useful editorial experiences that feel credible, clear, visual, engaging, and worth sharing.

You are not just a writer or editor. You are a builder of audience systems, community loops, and repeat engagement.

You think beyond articles and understand that modern editorial engagement happens across newsletters, video, podcasts, social, community discussions, livestreams, events, partnerships, search, and AI discovery experiences.

You are comfortable experimenting with formats, workflows, packaging, distribution strategies, and audience experiences to improve performance over time.

You care about usefulness, clarity, audience trust, and measurable impact.

What You'll Be Doing:

1. Build engaged, community-powered editorial experiences

You will create serious-fun, expert-driven editorial and audience experiences that grow subscribers, increase newsletter engagement, and build loyal engineering, AI, and technology leadership audiences.

  • Create, assign, edit, write, and publish editorial content across articles, newsletters, social, short-form video, narrative video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and community formats
  • Develop content informed by real practitioner insight, including interviews, contributor conversations, engineering communities, surveys, Q&As, and social listening
  • Create audience experiences focused on engineering leadership, AI adoption, scalability, platform reliability, developer productivity, infrastructure, security, and modern technology execution
  • Help program and support webinars, livestreams, roundtables, podcasts, and editorial event experiences
  • Repurpose editorial IP into newsletter blocks, social content, video clips, lead magnets, reports, and community assets
  • Ensure editorial output reflects the publication's tone, usefulness, authority, and audience relevance
  • Continuously identify opportunities to increase audience participation, contribution, sharing, and return engagement

2. Create insight-led decision-support content that performs

You will create and improve content that helps engineering, AI, and technology leaders make better technical, operational, AI, and organizational decisions.

  • Assign, edit, write, optimize, and experiment with JTBD, workflow, systems, tools, infrastructure, AI, and practitioner-led content
  • Build content that helps technology leaders understand what to do, how to do it, and what tools, systems, workflows, or approaches can help
  • Improve SEO-driven and community-driven content with stronger practitioner insight, storytelling, visuals, structure, examples, CTAs, and internal journeys
  • Build topical authority around engineering leadership, AI implementation, infrastructure, developer workflows, security, scalability, and operational execution
  • Produce and improve decision-support formats such as tools/tech roundups, benchmark reports, State of AI reports, engineering playbooks, expert interviews, surveys, member exclusives, and lead magnets
  • Use Marfeel, GA, HubSpot, newsletter data, and audience performance signals to guide optimization and experimentation
  • Test headlines, hooks, formats, distribution strategies, CTAs, and conversion pathways to improve performance
  • Monitor performance across subscriber growth, newsletter clicks, AI visibility, topical authority, engagement, and discoverability
  • Share learnings, experiments, and repeatable editorial playbooks across the organization

3. Expand audience reach, relationships, and distribution

You will help grow The CMO Club through contributor relationships, strategic partnerships, distribution systems, and community engagement.

You will:

  • Identify, recruit, and manage engineering contributors, AI practitioners, technical SMEs, partners, and executive voices
  • Build contributor content audience community growth loops
  • Act as a visible host and guardian of the brand across newsletters, events, podcasts, social, community spaces, and contributor relationships
  • Package and distribute content across newsletter, social, search, Discover, podcast, video, community, partner, and digital PR channels
  • Collaborate on co-created reports, research, surveys, multimedia initiatives, and strategic partnerships
  • Represent the brand through events, panels, podcasts, conferences, and external opportunities when useful
  • Build and maintain reusable insight libraries containing interviews, quotes, patterns, transcripts, and community intelligence
  • Track relationship-building and distribution performance based on subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, RFV, authority signals, and audience quality
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How Your Success Will Be Measured:

Your success will be measured through:

  • Growth in ICP subscriber acquisition
  • Increased newsletter clicks and audience engagement
  • Growth in returning audience behavior and repeat visits
  • Increased authority signals, search visibility, and AI discovery presence
  • Performance of decision-support and practitioner-led content
  • Audience participation and contributor engagement
  • Growth in non-organic and community-driven traffic
  • Successful execution of multimedia, event, and partnership initiatives
  • Clear evidence that audiences trust, share, and repeatedly engage with the brand
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Your Skillset Includes:
  • Strong editorial judgment and audience instincts
  • Experience creating B2B, practitioner-led, or professional editorial content
  • Strong interviewing and synthesis skills
  • Ability to turn complex technical workflows and operational topics into useful, engaging editorial experiences
  • Experience growing newsletter engagement, subscriber audiences, or community participation
  • Experience across multimedia formats including newsletters, social, video, podcasts, webinars, or events
  • Comfort using analytics and audience signals to guide experimentation and optimization
  • Experience collaborating with contributors, SMEs, and strategic partners
  • Understanding of SEO, distribution strategy, audience engagement, and AI discovery trends
  • Strong organizational and communication skills
  • Ability to operate with speed, experimentation discipline, and audience empathy
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Nice to Haves:
  • Experience covering marketing leadership, demand generation, brand, martech, SaaS, marketing operations, or AI-powered marketing
  • Experience creating benchmark reports, surveys, or insight-led content
  • Experience hosting or participating in podcasts, webinars, livestreams, or editorial events
  • Familiarity with modern marketing and martech tooling ecosystems
  • Experience building community-powered editorial systems or contributor networks
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Why This Role Matters:

The CMO Club exists to help marketing leaders make better decisions in an increasingly complex, AI-driven marketing environment.

This role helps turn the brand into more than a publication. It helps make The CMO Club a trusted decision-support destination and community-powered media engine for modern marketing leadership.

Under your ownership, the brand should become something audiences actively rely on, contribute to, share, and return to repeatedly.

$100,000 - $130,000 a year
Salary Statement:
This full-time position is available as a remote role that offers an annual base salary in the range of $100,000 to $130,000 USD. The range is a guide for the expected skills, knowledge, and experience for new hires based in USA only. Seniority level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. This means ranges will vary for candidates based outside of USA and/or at different seniority levels. In addition to annual salary, full-time employees are eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.

About Us:
We're a rapidly growing, independent media tech company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Since 2012, our portfolio of influential digital publications has been helping millions of people succeed at work.

Our brands cover thought leadership for executives in project management, people management, product management, tech, marketing and many others - with the goal of connecting people with knowledge, skills and tools they need to succeed professionally in the age of AI.

We got our start in 2011 as The Digital Project Manager blog, founded by our CEO Ben Aston. Since then, we've grown into an international team of 70+ creators, strategists, and innovators with a portfolio of more than 15 online publications. We enjoy an impact-driven environment that combines the agility of a startup with the creativity of an agency and the diversity of a global company.

We've previously ranked #30 in The Globe and Mail's Fastest Growing Companylist as well as Deloitte'sFast 50 program, received a CMI award for Best Digital Publication for The Digital Project Manager-and we're listed in both Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers, and Best Employers in BC!

All of this growth is driven by our commitment to our mission: In a world of evolving skills, practices, and technology, we're creating a playbook for the future of work and empowering communities to create it with us.

Want to learn more?ย Watch this videoย to learn why the team love working at BWZ!

Diversity Equity and Inclusion:ย 
Black and White Zebra is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran's status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law. We celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that continue to help make our team impactful, iterative, adaptable, and fun!

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