# Senior Editor

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $210K - $290K
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Perplexity is seeking a Senior Editor to lead the quality and velocity of everything published. The role involves setting the editorial bar for excellence, making every writer around you measurably better, and building a world-class editorial function from the ground up.

Responsibilities:

- Own editorial quality end to end.

- Reject mediocrity.

- Demand clarity and ensure accuracy.

- Be Perplexity, evolve and enforce the company's voice.

- Plan and manage the editorial calendar.

- Edit at every level, from high-level editorial vision to developmental editing to line-level copy editing.

- Mentor, elevate, and attract excellent writers.

- Build the editorial system, evolve and own style guides and workflows.

- Work productively across the company.

Qualifications:

- 7+ years in editing, writing, or editorial leadership.

- High flexibility of tone and mind.

- High competence throughout the editorial stack.

- Demonstrated track record of mentoring writers and improving team output.

- Exceptional ability to learn.

- Refined judgment on structure, argument, and voice.

- Proven eye for narrative in complex material.

- Deep familiarity with grammar, style, and storytelling rules.

- Comfort using AI tools.

- Passion for the truth well-told.

Compensation:

- $210K – $290K

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more for full-time U.S. employees.

- Comprehensive benefits program tailored to the region of residence for full-time employees outside the U.S.

## Skills

### Required
- editorial leadership
- writing
- editing
- content planning
- production management
- mentoring
- AI tools

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