Senior Editor, The COO Club at Black & White Zebra in San Diego, CA

About The COO Club:

Through http://thedigitalprojectmanager.com, we’ve built a substantial audience around project delivery, work management, PM software, operational systems, and the practical ways teams get work done.

Now we’re building on that foundation to create The COO Club: a senior media brand for those responsible for how work is designed, governed, automated, and executed.

The COO Club helps operations leaders make better decisions in the AI era through peer-driven insights, practical frameworks, executive playbooks, software guidance, events, and community-powered experiences.

Our coverage focuses on AI-enabled operations, organizational design, cross-functional execution, operational efficiency, systems optimization, scalable delivery, and modern executive leadership.

Our audience includes COOs, VPs of Operations, Heads of Delivery, operations executives, PMO leaders, transformation leaders, and senior 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 COO Club into a trusted, community-powered media brand for operations leaders and senior executives.

This is not a maintenance editing role. You will help define the voice, editorial strategy, contributor network, content formats, and audience experience for a new executive brand built on an existing audience foundation.

This role is responsible for growing loyal, engaged operations 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 operations leaders make better decisions, build scalable systems, adopt AI-enabled ways of working, drive organizational efficiency, and navigate the changing realities of modern executive leadership.

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

Who You Are:

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

You are deeply curious about how COOs and operations executives operate, make decisions, adopt AI, design organizations, drive efficiency, and navigate cross-functional 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 operations 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, operations and executive communities, surveys, Q&As, and social listening
• Create audience experiences focused on operational strategy, AI-enabled workflows, organizational efficiency, cross-functional execution, systems and tooling, and modern executive leadership
• 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 operations leaders and executives make better strategic, operational, AI, and organizational decisions.

• Assign, edit, write, optimize, and experiment with JTBD, workflow, systems, tools, AI, and practitioner-led content
• Build content that helps operations leaders understand what to do, how to do it, and what tools, workflows, systems, 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 operational leadership, AI-enabled systems, organizational design, cross-functional execution, and executive decision-making
• Produce and improve decision-support formats such as tools/tech roundups, benchmark reports, State of AI reports, operational 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 COO Club through contributor relationships, strategic partnerships, distribution systems, and community engagement.

• Identify, recruit, and manage COOs, operations executives, operational SMEs, partners, and contributor 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

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

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 operational challenges, executive priorities, and organizational 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

Nice to Haves:

• Experience covering operations leadership, organizational design, AI transformation, enterprise systems, workflow optimization, or executive decision-making
• Experience creating benchmark reports, surveys, or insight-led content
• Experience hosting or participating in podcasts, webinars, livestreams, or editorial events
• Familiarity with modern operational tooling and enterprise systems ecosystems
• Experience building community-powered editorial systems or contributor networks

Why This Role Matters:

The COO Club is being built for a clear purpose: to help operations leaders and COOs make better decisions about how work gets designed, governed, automated, and executed in the AI era.

This role will help define that brand from the ground up. You will shape its editorial voice, audience experience, contributor network, and decision-support content so it becomes more than a publication.

Under your ownership, The COO Club should become a trusted media brand that senior operations leaders rely on for practical insight, peer perspective, software guidance, and meaningful professional connection

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? Watch this video to learn why the team love working at BWZ!

Diversity Equity and Inclusion:

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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