Senior Editor

Senior Editor

Perplexity is seeking a Senior Editor to lead the quality and velocity of everything we publish. Our content spans a range of audiences, channels, and objectives. You will set the editorial bar for excellence and make every writer around you measurably better.



If you treat a clunky sentence and a sprawling launch narrative as the same kind of craft, take pride in language without being precious about deadlines, and want to build a world-class editorial function from the ground up, this role is for you.



Responsibilities

 - Own editorial quality end to end.

 - Reject mediocrity.

 - Demand clarity. Ensure accuracy.

 - Be Perplexity. Evolve and enforce our voice. Everything we ship should sound like we shipped it.

 - Be accountable. Hold objective authority in a sea of subjective opinions.

 - Plan and manage the editorial calendar. Run prioritization and production for a fast-moving pipeline in a high-growth environment.

 - Edit at every level. Player-coach plus team owner and stadium sponsor. Move fluidly from high-level editorial vision to developmental editing to line-level copy editing. Deliver feedback that makes the writing and the writer better.

 - Mentor, elevate, and attract excellent writers. Earn the respect of strong writers by making them stronger.

 - Make sense of things. Make sense to people.

 - Build the editorial system. Evolve and own the style guides and workflows.

 - Work productively across the company. Everyone wants content, and you’re the content.



Qualifications

 - 7+ years in editing, writing, or editorial leadership, with a body of published or edited work that demonstrates exceptional command of language.

 - High flexibility of tone and mind. You must be able to demonstrate an ability to adapt styles and voices for different channels or audiences.

 - High competence throughout the editorial stack: developmental editing, copy editing, content planning, and managing production.

 - A demonstrated track record of mentoring writers and improving the quality of a team's output, not just your own.

 - Exceptional ability to learn.

 - Refined judgment on all matters of structure, argument, and voice

 - A proven eye for narrative in messy, ambiguous, or highly technical material.

 - Deep familiarity with the rules of grammar, style, and storytelling.

 - Enough experience in the bullet above that you have a clear perspective on which rules you intend to break and when.

 - Comfort using AI tools and the ability to articulate exactly where and how you incorporate them into your workflows.

 - A passion for the truth well-told.