Editor, Axios Local

<p>&nbsp;<strong>The big picture: </strong>Axios is dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news in an audience-first format. We now publish daily newsletters in 39 cities across America — and counting. We're hiring an editor to work with our teams in the Mountain/West region, especially focusing on our expansion in the Phoenix area.</p> <p><strong>Why it matters:</strong> You'll work with reporters in multiple cities, helping them get their local readers smarter, faster on the news, events and local folkways that matter most to them.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Go deeper:</strong> You care deeply about the future of local news and are obsessed with cooking up innovative ways to reimagine it. You take a people-first approach to management. You're comfortable guiding expert reporters in a remote-first environment. And you're skilled at delivering consistent, clear, constructive feedback.</p> <p><strong>Primary responsibilities</strong> include:</p> <ul> <li>Managing and supporting reporters through editorial brainstorming and execution.</li> <li>Owning the company's vision and communicating it clearly to your teams.</li> <li>Experimenting with and leveraging AI to drive workflow efficiencies.</li> <li>Story and newsletter editing in our Smart Brevity style.</li> <li>Write stories and newsletter items when needed.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Worthy of your time:</strong> Ideal candidates will operate with a startup mentality and an entrepreneurial spirit, and have the following skills and qualities:</p> <ul> <li>Preferably is located in the Phoenix area and/or has a deep familiarity with it.</li> <li>Experience in a fast-paced newsroom. (Experience editing daily newsletters is a plus.)</li> <li>A deep understanding of the greater Phoenix area and what topics are important to the people who live there.</li> <li>Sharp story framing skills, and the ability to help reporters craft conceptual scoops.&nbsp;</li> <li>Strong conversational writing skills, and the ability to coach reporters to write conversationally.</li> <li>Confidence working in a remote-first environment.</li> <li>Experience managing reporters at varying levels of seniority.</li> <li>A belief in Smart Brevity.</li> <li>The desire to help make your teams indispensable to local readers.</li> </ul> <p><em>Starting salary for this role is in the range of $85,000 - $105,000 and is dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, and skills. This range does not include other compensation benefits. Axios' compensation philosophy takes into account cost of labor differentials across the country. B