Managing Editor

About The Role

Digital Matters publishes across six areas: artificial intelligence, IT infrastructure, web design, marketing, SEO, and security. The target is two well-reported pieces a week, every week. Right now the publisher commissions, edits, schedules, and chases all of it. That bottleneck is the reason this role exists.

This is a hands-on editing job, not a meetings job. You would spend most of your hours inside documents. There is no standing weekly call, no deck to build, and nobody to forward things to. If the part of editorial work you actually enjoy is turning a decent draft into a piece a reader finishes, that is most of what this is.

What You Would Own

• The editorial calendar across all six verticals. You decide what runs, when, and in what order, and you keep the mix from drifting toward whatever happens to be easiest to commission.
• Commissioning. Brief the freelance bench, agree scope and rate in writing before any work starts, and write briefs specific enough that a writer can actually hit them.
• Line and structural editing on everything that ships. Two pieces a week is the floor, not a stretch target.
• Headlines, deks, and the metadata that decides whether a good piece ever gets read.
• Accuracy. If a claim runs on the site, you were the last person who could have checked it.
• Keeping the bench warm: fast replies, specific feedback, and noticing which writers are getting better.

What You Bring

• Real editing experience on technical or business copy. You can explain why you cut a section, not just that you cut it.
• Comfort commissioning: scoping a brief, negotiating it, and turning down a pitch without losing the writer.
• Enough technical literacy to notice when a draft is confidently wrong about how something works. You do not need to be an engineer. You do need to smell it.
• Working knowledge of WordPress, and of how search and social shape a headline. SEO instincts, not SEO ritual.
• The discipline to ship on a fixed cadence with nobody standing over you.

Nice To Have

• Freelancers you already trust in any of the six coverage areas.
• Experience running a monthly newsletter alongside a site.
• Time spent as the writer, not only as the editor.

Terms

Part-time contract, roughly twenty hours a week, remote and async. The rate is agreed in writing before you start and invoiced monthly. We walk you through it on the first call, before you have invested any real time in us.

Hours are yours to arrange. What we care about is that two pieces ship each week and that writers hear back quickly, not that you are online between particular clock hours. The role starts as a contract; if the cadence holds, there is an honest conversation about widening it.

How We Hire

• Apply using the form below. Every applicant hears back within seven days, either way.
• A 30-minute call about how you would sequence the next month across six verticals with a small bench.
• A paid edit. We send you a real draft. You edit it and tell us what you changed and why. Paid, and scheduled at your convenience.
• Offer, usually within two weeks of first contact.

We never ask for unpaid spec work. If we ask you to touch real copy, we pay for it.