Content Editor

Content Editor

As a Content Editor at GitLab, you will be a part of building the media and publishing arm of GitLab. You will work closely with team members across the company to develop and optimize stories for the GitLab blog, and you will use GitLab itself to plan and collaborate.

Responsibilities

• Write blog articles with a journalistic approach.
• Cover technology and technical topics as a reporter.
• Remix video, event, and other content into blog articles.
• Proofread, re-structure, and edit article contributions of other team members.
• Interview subject matter experts and industry professionals.
• Curate the bi-weekly newsletter.
• Assist in developing news and announcements as requested within Marketing and by other departments or partners.
• Identify and surface story ideas for placement in external publications.
• Maintain a high standard of well written and factually accurate content.
• Stay up to date on GitLab's current and upcoming products and features.

Requirements

• Experience as a content writer, editor, or similar role, preferably in enterprise or open source technology marketing.
• Strong communication skills without a fear of over communication.
• Ability to work asynchronously
• Extremely detail-oriented and organized (this applies to editing and writing, as well as to project management of your work, using GitLab)
• Able to meet deadlines
• Familiarity of the software development process including Git, CI and CD
• Experience with writing for SEO and keyword research.
• Proven ability to copywrite and edit.
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values. For example: in this role, adopting our transparency value sometimes means that your drafts are visible to the rest of the company and teammates might offer input before you're ready!
• Ability to use GitLab
• BONUS: A passion and strong understanding of the industry and our mission.

Levels

Associate Content Editor

Job Grade

The Associate Content Editor is a grade 5.

Responsibilities

• Execute writing and editing tasks as assigned by the Managing Editor.
• Learn the enterprise software beat.
• Write and reseach technical topics.

Requirements

• 1-3 years experience in a content-related role.
• Ability to meet deadlines and execute on assignments.

Intermediate Content Editor

Job Grade

The Intermediate Content Editor is a grade 6.

Responsibilities

• Self-manage writing and editing tasks.
• Cover the software & technology beat with a journalistic eye.
• Influence publishing strategy and execution.
• Proven experience with SEO and keyword research.

Requirements

• 3-5 years experience in a content-related role.
• Experience writing about software.
• Proven ability to research and write on technical topics independently.

Senior Content Editor

Job Grade

The Senior Content Editor is a grade 7.

Responsibilities

• Conduct original research and reporting.
• Cultivate story ideas with an astute journalistic eye.
• Influence the strategy and identity of GitLab's digital magazine (e.g. share observations and insights about topic performance, SEO optimization, etc.)
• Assist in newsjacking efforts.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in a content-related role.
• Experience covering technical topics like DevOps, digital transformation, CI/CD, and software development methods.

Managing Editor

Job Grade

The Managing Editor is a grade 8.

Responsibilities

• Own the direction and identity of GitLab's digital magazine.
• Set the publishing strategy, directives, and goals.
• Manage the editorial team.
• Oversee all daily publishing operations.
• Report on and use data to inform publishing strategy.
• Improve and enforce GitLab's editorial style guide, including brand style, tone, and voice.
• Drive improvements to user experience on the GitLab blog.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in journalism, content marketing, or communications
• Degree in English, journalism or media, or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership capabilities.
• Proven experience as a managing editor or similar role, preferably within enterprise marketing.
• Markdown proficiency.
• Familiarity of the software development processes including Git, CI and CD
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• BONUS: A passion and strong understanding of the industry and our mission.

Career Progression

The next position in this job family is Senior Manager, Global Content.

About GitLab

GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.

We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.

Top 10 reasons to work for GitLab:

1. Work with helpful, kind, motivated, and talented people.
2. Work remote so you have no commute and are free to travel and move.
3. Have flexible work hours so you are there for other people and free to plan the day how you like.
4. Everyone works remote, but you don't feel remote. We don't have a head office, so you're not in a satellite office.
5. Work on open source software so you can interact with a large community and can show your work.
6. Work on a product you use every day: we drink our own wine.
7. Work on a product used by lots of people that care about what you do.
8. As a company we contribute more than we take, most of our work is released as the open source GitLab CE.
9. Focused on results, not on long hours, so that you can have a life and don't burn out.
10. Open internal processes: know what you're getting in to and be assured we're thoughtful and effective.

See our culture page for more!