Associate Editor

Your tasks

• Read deeply and diagnose. Find where and why a story loses readers, using the manuscript, reader feedback and engagement data.
• Write clear, bold editorial plans for major rewrites: new hooks, reworked arcs, sharper character motivation, payoffs readers can’t stop talking about.
• Bring your vision to life. Execute those rewrites in collaboration with authors and agentic AI tools.
• Test your instincts. Run reader tests on your revisions, interpret the results, and carry what you learn into the next book.
• Build relationships with authors, freelance editors, marketing and the wider content team, who will be your collaborators in making each book better.

Requirements

• You love romance and read widely in it. You know the tropes, heat levels and subgenres, and you have strong opinions on why readers keep coming back.
• You have sharp editorial instincts. You can say exactly why a story isn’t working and what would fix it.
• You’re a creative thinker with big story ideas, and you get excited by the chance to reinvent a book, not just repair it.
• You’re comfortable with developing creative theories from quantitative data. You can look at reader data, form a hypothesis and explain it clearly.
• You’re excited to use AI as a creative tool, with the taste to judge what it produces and make it better.
• You’re smart, curious and hungry. You learn fast, take ownership, and want real responsibility early.
• You have 1-3 years in editorial or publishing, an MFA, or similar. Your judgment and ideas matter more than your résumé.
• You can work on-site in San Francisco 5 days a week.

• Experience with serialized or web fiction (Wattpad, Galatea, Kindle Vella, webtoons)
• Experience giving developmental feedback to writers
• Your own fiction, playwriting, or screenwriting experience. We love people who make things.