Location: Oakland, CA, United States
Help Shape the Editorial Voice of a National Civic Technology Organization
WeVote
is a nonpartisan civic technology nonprofit dedicated to helping voters make informed decisions and participate in democracy. As a Fast Forward nonprofit technology grantee, we build digital tools that provide voters with trusted election information and encourage civic engagement at scale.
We are seeking an experienced
Editor-in-Chief
to lead WeVote's editorial vision and content strategy. This volunteer leadership role is ideal for a senior journalist, editor, media leader, or content strategist who is passionate about civic engagement, voter education, and nonpartisan journalism.
As Editor-in-Chief, you will provide strategic leadership for all editorial content across WeVote's blogs, newsletters, thought leadership initiatives, and voter education programs. You will guide editorial standards, shape organizational messaging, and oversee a team of volunteer writers, editors, researchers, and content contributors.
What You'll Do
Lead Editorial Vision & Strategy
Develop and oversee WeVote's editorial direction, ensuring all content aligns with the organization's mission to educate, engage, and empower voters through trusted, nonpartisan information.
Serve as the Editorial Authority
Establish and uphold editorial standards, journalistic ethics, fact-checking protocols, and style guidelines that maintain the credibility and integrity of WeVote's content.
Guide Content Priorities
Identify key civic, democracy, voting, and technology topics that should be covered across blogs, newsletters, and educational content initiatives.
Lead and Inspire Contributors
Provide leadership, mentorship, and strategic direction to volunteer editors, writers, researchers, and content creators, fostering a culture of editorial excellence.
Drive Thought Leadership
Help position WeVote as a trusted voice in civic technology, voter education, and democratic participation through compelling editorial initiatives and strategic storytelling.
Collaborate with Organizational Leadership
Partner with executive, communications, political data, product, and marketing leaders to ensure editorial efforts support broader organizational goals while maintaining editorial independence and integrity.
Review High-Impact Content
Provide final editorial oversight on major publications, feature stories, opinion pieces, and strategic communications before publication.
What We're Looking For
Senior Editorial Experience
5+ years of experience in journalism, publishing, editorial leadership, digital media, content strategy, or related fields.
Editorial Leadership
Demonstrated experience leading editorial teams, setting publication strategy, and managing content quality across multiple channels.
Strong Journalistic Judgment
Deep understanding of editorial ethics, fact-checking standards, audience engagement, and responsible reporting practices.
Strategic Content Expertise
Experience developing content strategies that grow audience engagement, increase readership, and strengthen organizational visibility.
Exceptional Writing & Editing Skills
Outstanding editorial, writing, copyediting, and storytelling abilities with meticulous attention to accuracy and clarity.
Commitment to Nonpartisanship
Passion for voter education, civic engagement, democracy, and maintaining objective, impartial editorial standards.
Remote Leadership Skills
Ability to successfully lead volunteer contributors and collaborate across distributed teams in a remote environment.
Why Join WeVote?
Influence the editorial direction of a nationally recognized civic technology nonprofit
Help millions of voters access trusted, nonpartisan information
Lead a talented team of mission-driven volunteer contributors
Build executive-level editorial leadership experience
Collaborate with professionals across journalism, technology, product development, communications, and civic engagement
Position Details
Location:
Remote (U.S.-based volunteers preferred)
Time Commitment:
Approximately 5-10 hours per week
Compensation:
Volunteer Position
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Location: Montreal, Canada
Key Responsibilities
• Act as editor-in-chief of the Satellite Operations Handbook: gather documentation and inputs from subsystem teams (power, thermal, AOCS, TT&C;, payload, FDIR, ground segment) and integrate them into one coherent, fluid text.
• Interview subsystem engineers to close gaps, resolve ambiguities, and verify the technical accuracy of every section.
• Rewrite engineering source material into clear, unambiguous, procedure-grade language suitable for use by operators in real-time operations.
• Structure the handbook across the mission lifecycle: nominal operations, contingency and FDIR response, and subsystem reference sections.
• Maintain revision and configuration control; organize and run formal review cycles with engineering and operations stakeholders.
• Establish and enforce a style guide, templates, and terminology consistency across all contributors.
Required Qualifications
• Proven long-form technical authorship — a PhD thesis, published research, or prior authorship of operations manuals, handbooks, flight rules, or procedures. (Per the hiring manager: "People who have written PhD theses would be ideal candidates.")
• Working knowledge of satellites and space systems — able to read, understand, and interrogate subsystem engineering documentation.
• Fast learner with a synthetic mind: able to compress many inconsistent sources into one clear narrative.
• Excellent written English.
Preferred Qualifications
• Background in satellite operations, spacecraft systems engineering, or mission analysis.
• French language skills (Montreal-based team).
• Familiarity with documentation and requirements tools (DOORS, Confluence) and ECSS/NASA documentation culture.
• Experience authoring training materials or certifying operations personnel
Location: Canada; United States; France
Key Responsibilities
• Act as editor-in-chief of the Satellite Operations Handbook: gather documentation and inputs from
subsystem teams (power, thermal, AOCS, TT&C;, payload, FDIR, ground segment) and integrate them
into one coherent, fluid text.
• Interview subsystem engineers to close gaps, resolve ambiguities, and verify the technical accuracy of
every section.
• Rewrite engineering source material into clear, unambiguous, procedure-grade language suitable for use
by operators in real-time operations.
• Structure the handbook across the mission lifecycle: nominal operations, contingency and FDIR response,
and subsystem reference sections.
• Maintain revision and configuration control; organize and run formal review cycles with engineering and
operations stakeholders.
• Establish and enforce a style guide, templates, and terminology consistency across all contributors.
Required Qualifications
• Proven long-form technical authorship — a PhD thesis, published research, or prior authorship of
operations manuals, handbooks, flight rules, or procedures. (Per the hiring manager: "People who have
written PhD theses would be ideal candidates.")
• Working knowledge of satellites and space systems — able to read, understand, and interrogate
subsystem engineering documentation.
• Fast learner with a synthetic mind: able to compress many inconsistent sources into one clear narrative.
• Excellent written English.
Preferred Qualifications
• Background in satellite operations, spacecraft systems engineering, or mission analysis.
• French language skills (Montreal-based team).
• Familiarity with documentation and requirements tools (DOORS, Confluence) and ECSS/NASA
documentation culture.
• Experience authoring training materials or certifying operations personnel.
Location: Lightning Labs
Workplace: Remote
OVERVIEW
Lightning Labs is looking for a Developer Product Marketing Lead who is passionate about bringing bitcoin to the next billion people with the Lightning Network. This role will lead product marketing for Lightning Labs, serving as editor-in-chief for external messaging while building the systems and strategy that drive developer adoption of our tools and protocols. You'll own the full arc from positioning and narrative through to execution, ensuring that everything Lightning Labs publishes is technically accurate, strategically aligned, and resonates with a developer audience.
You will work closely with the VP Product, product team, content team, and business development team to translate technical work into compelling narratives and scalable go-to-market programs. The ideal candidate has experience leading marketing for developer infrastructure or protocol-level products, a strong intuition for what resonates with technical audiences, and a track record of building high performing marketing functions. You should be comfortable building and using AI-driven workflows to move fast, and excited about marketing products that sit at the frontier of bitcoin, Lightning, and AI-native payments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
MARKETING STRATEGY & POSITIONING
- Own and drive Lightning Labs' marketing strategy across product launches, developer campaigns, content, and community engagement.
- Define and create measurable KPIs to ensure efficient resource allocation across the wide variety of potential marketing activities
- Define positioning and messaging for Lightning Labs' products, including LND, the leading Lightning implementation, Taproot Assets for stablecoins, L402 for agentic payments, Terminal, the UI for node operators, and developer tooling. Establish technical authority and differentiation to highlight the best of our developer experience.
- Build and execute go-to-market plans for new product launches and protocol milestones, coordinating across product, engineering, content, and business development.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
- Own editorial quality and consistency for external content, from blog posts to social media and launch announcements.
- Shape the broader narrative around Lightning's role in the future of payments, stablecoins, and AI-native commerce.
- Ensure all external communications maintain technical credibility while being accessible to developers entering the ecosystem.
- Translate highly technical protocol and infrastructure concepts into accessible, compelling narratives that give developers the context they need to understand not just what a product does, but why it matters and how to use it.
SYSTEMATIZE & SCALE CONTENT
- Build the positioning frameworks, templates, and processes that enable the content team and collaborators to produce high-quality output consistently.
- Coordinate and orchestrate content across channels, ensuring coverage of key product moments and a cohesive point of view.
- Lead the editorial direction for Lightning Labs' blog, social channels, and developer-facing communications, working with the existing team.
DEVELOPER COMMUNITY & FUNNEL GROWTH
- Partner with the business development team to support funnel growth, from developer awareness through onboarding and adoption.
- Design and run campaigns and programs that grow the developer community, driving adoption of Lightning Labs' tools and protocols.
- Understand how developers discover, evaluate, and adopt infrastructure tools, and meet them where they are across community platforms, social media, and technical channels.
- Track and report on marketing performance, using data to iterate on what is and isn't working.
AI-NATIVE MARKETING WORKFLOWS
- Design and manage AI-assisted content systems, establishing quality standards, brand guidelines, and guardrails that enable scalable, high-quality output.
- Use AI tools extensively to draft, edit, prototype, and ship content at a velocity that would otherwise require a much larger team, while applying the creative judgment and editorial voice that keeps output sharp, original, and human.
- Bring a builder's mindset to marketing operations, using automation and tooling to increase leverage across the function.
LOCATION
US time zones strongly preferred, SF Bay Area would be a plus.
REQUIREMENTS
- Passion for bitcoin, Lightning, and the mission of bringing financial freedom to the world.
- 5+ years in product marketing or developer marketing, ideally at a technical platform, API-first company, or developer tools company.
- Strong technical fluency with the ability to understand and clearly communicate complex technical concepts to a developer audience.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills with a high bar for technical accuracy, clarity, and consistency across formats (blog posts, social media, web copy, positioning documents).
- Systems thinker with strong process design skills who builds frameworks and templates that enable others to execute consistently.
- Demonstrated comfort with AI-native workflows, including using AI tools and agents as part of a high-velocity content and marketing operation, while maintaining the human creative judgment, voice, and editorial instinct that makes content resonate rather than just ship.
- Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity. You can define the work, build the systems, and execute without a playbook.
- Ability to orchestrate content and campaigns across multiple internal stakeholders independently.
PREFERRED
- Experience marketing to a developer audience in open source, bitcoin, AI, fintech, or payments.
- Familiarity with the Lightning Network, bitcoin protocol development, or adjacent ecosystems.
- Track record of building or significantly growing the developer marketing function at an early-stage or high-growth company.
- Deep familiarity with developer communities on Twitter/X, GitHub, Discord, and other channels where developers discover and evaluate tools.
- Experience building content systems, style guides, and brand voice frameworks.
- Strong social media presence or demonstrated ability to create engaging technical content.
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