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The CTO Club helps engineering, AI, and technology leaders navigate the complexity of modern engineering organizations so they can focus on building durable systems, scaling teams, driving innovation, and delivering business outcomes.

We provide peer-driven insights, practical frameworks, technical leadership perspectives, and community-powered experiences focused on AI adoption, platform scalability, reliability, security, developer productivity, infrastructure, and modern engineering execution.

Our audience includes CTOs, engineering leaders, platform operators, technical decision-makers, AI leaders, and senior technology practitioners looking for practical insight, trustworthy guidance, and meaningful professional connection.

We are looking for a Senior Editor to help build The CTO Club into a trusted, community-powered media brand for engineering, AI, and technology leaders.

This role is responsible for growing loyal, engaged engineering, AI, and technology 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 technology leaders make better decisions, discover better tools and workflows, understand emerging technologies, and navigate the changing realities of modern engineering 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 engineering, AI, and technology leaders.

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

You are deeply curious about how engineering, AI, and technology leaders operate, make technical decisions, adopt AI, manage infrastructure, scale organizations, 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.

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 CTO Club through contributor relationships, strategic partnerships, distribution systems, and community engagement.

• 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

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

• 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

• Experience covering engineering leadership, enterprise technology, infrastructure, AI, SaaS, developer workflows, or cybersecurity
• Experience creating benchmark reports, surveys, or insight-led content
• Experience hosting or participating in podcasts, webinars, livestreams, or editorial events
• Familiarity with modern engineering and AI tooling ecosystems
• Experience building community-powered editorial systems or contributor networks

The CTO Club exists to help engineering, AI, and technology leaders make better decisions in an increasingly complex technology environment.

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

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