Editorial Director

Cohere Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Toronto

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead Cohere’s editorial function, owning all long-form content published under the company’s name, including essays, features, profiles, films, photo essays, podcasts, and eventually books.
• Define and uphold Cohere’s editorial vision, standards, and voice across all formats—ensuring every piece meets a rigorous, magazine-caliber standard before publication.
• Build and manage a quarterly and weekly publishing calendar across owned media channels (website, newsletter, podcast, etc.), ensuring consistent cadence, budget adherence, and on-time delivery.
• Commission, brief, edit, and ship original long-form content from a network of staff writers, freelance contributors, photographers, filmmakers, and producers—maintaining high creative quality while scaling output.
• Own Cohere’s editorial tone and voice at the sentence level, ensuring all published work aligns with the company’s authentic identity without becoming generic brand messaging.
• Integrate and unify Cohere’s diverse content streams (blog, newsletter, film, photo series, podcast, social excerpts) into a single, coherent publisher identity—not five separate channels.
• Partner with the Head of Brand Marketing to align editorial slate with broader brand strategy, and with the Design Director to ensure editorial work is matched by compelling visual execution.
• Collaborate closely with the Social Lead to ensure social channels reflect and elevate the editorial slate, treating them as public-facing extensions of the same publishing voice.
• Coordinate with Product Marketing and Comms to ensure editorial work enhances product launches and announcements without becoming a reactive calendar of promotions.
• Develop measurement frameworks focused on depth of engagement: returning readers, podcast retention, time-on-page, share-through rates, syndication, citations, and cultural pickup—not vanity metrics like impressions.
• Lead and develop an existing editorial team (senior content manager and staff writer), setting a culture of high standards that motivates rather than intimidates.
• Cultivate and expand a roster of top-tier freelance contributors (writers, photographers, filmmakers) who actively seek to publish with Cohere due to its reputation and editorial rigor.
• Serve as Cohere’s head of internal storytelling: translating company vision and strategy into compelling narratives for all-hands, kickoffs, strategy memos, and onboarding materials.
• Partner with the People team to align employer brand messaging with external editorial output, ensuring new hires experience a consistent, authentic narrative of Cohere’s mission and culture.
• Take ownership of existing owned-media properties: decide what to evolve, retire, or launch next—potentially leading to a print publication or imprint as the work earns the right.
• Maintain cultural fluency across journalism, design, fashion, music, art, and the internet, bringing broad cultural insight into editorial choices that go beyond technology or AI.
• Ensure all content reflects a point of view, not a brochure—prioritizing original commentary, criticism, and reporting alongside brand storytelling.
• Operate within a fast-moving, technically complex environment while preserving editorial rigor and depth—never sacrificing quality for speed.
• Be the final editorial gatekeeper: every piece under Cohere’s name must pass your standard before shipping.
• Measure success through reader growth, audience depth, contributor satisfaction, cultural impact, and internal alignment—ensuring the work is not just seen, but remembered and cited.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years in editorial leadership roles with a proven track record of shipping ambitious long-form work at a high standard
• Demonstrated ability to run a complex publishing operation, including calendar management, budget oversight, freelance contracting, and production discipline
• Strong editorial chops: ability to edit at both sentence and structural levels, and articulate editorial decisions with clarity and conviction
• Established network of trusted writers, photographers, filmmakers, and producers
• Experience leading editorial teams and managing external creative partners
• Cultural fluency across multiple disciplines (journalism, art, design, fashion, music, internet culture)

🏖️ Benefits

• 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health
• Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
• Personal enrichment benefits for arts and culture, fitness, well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
• Remote-flexible work with offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London, and Paris, plus a co-working stipend

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About Cohere Inc.

Cohere provides large language models and retrieval-augmented generation APIs for enterprise developers to embed conversational AI, search, summarization, and content generation into applications. Founded in 2021 by former Google Brain researchers, the company offers cloud and on-premise deployment, fine-tuning tools, and multilingual support to help organizations automate workflows, improve customer support, and analyze unstructured data while maintaining data privacy and security controls.

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