About the job

Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to venture to late-stage technology companies, across bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $33.3B in assets under management across multiple funds.

We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We’ve invested in companies like Affirm, Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, Devoted Health, EQRx, Figma, GitHub, Instacart, OpenSea, Roblox, Stripe, and Substack. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.

The Role

We’re looking for strong editors to join our growing editorial team at Future.com, part of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z. Future.com runs separately from the content marketing efforts of our VC operations. At Future.com, we strive to help more and more people understand technology, innovation, and how to build and participate in this dynamic ecosystem. We’re building a trusted, go-to site about how the future is unfolding, from the perspective of those shaping it. We’re pro-tech, pro-future, pro-change. And we’re out to help grow the tech economy. This role can be done remotely from the U.S., based on Pacific time.

Our editors work closely with subject matter experts in the U.S. and abroad and help them express their experience, thinking and perspectives. We collaborate with builders, execs, legal experts, academics, authors and other experts across tech, health care, biotech, fintech, crypto, consumer tech, enterprise software, gaming and beyond. We’ve invested in content for years. That’s included our chart-topping a16z Podcast, oft-cited articles, reports and op-eds. Startup builders and technologists have been our core audience, alongside all people who are working in or with the tech ecosystem. We’re building so we can eventually engage everyone in the world who’s tech curious.

In this role, the editor will work across verticals and topics to help connect the dots for the audience in key areas like the homepage and newsletters, partner with other editors and the growth team on getting more value from our content, and edit and produce their own pipeline of original pieces. This role is well-suited for someone who has some editorial and/or content marketing experience and is looking to develop their editing skills, while still honing their writing or marketing chops.

To Join Our Team, You Should Be Excited To

• Work closely with and learn from a team of seasoned editors from media and tech, as well as partner with our growth/audience development team
• Be the “glue” between different topics and ideas, working in established formats (homepage, newsletter, etc) and experimenting in new ones to surface pieces and themes for our audiences
• Track relevant industry developments, and surface fresh angles from diverse voices, problem solvers, and builders.
• Source, assign, and edit pieces with differentiated POVs.
• Help experts shape ideas into meaty, accessible pieces. That includes pushing back on weak ideas, fallacies, bad structure and holes, and working through multiple drafts. We edit much more deeply than most outlets do. We do heavy developmental and line editing. (These are not primarily writing, reporting or copy editing roles. We do not compete with mainstream media. And we do not cover breaking news, nor do we ghost-write.)
• Work across our editorial and growth marketing team to develop ideas for various story formats and approaches on distribution.
• Run and measure editorial experiments, using analytics to iterate and to grow our audience.

Minimum Qualifications

• Writing, editing, or content marketing experience at a media outlet or thriving startup or business, or a combo of that.
• Intellectual curiosity about tech and the future, and the willingness to closely follow developments.
• Experience in working closely with experts to shape content and maintain their voice and perspective.
• Strong judgment about content, as well as people and relationships.
• The EQ to work with a variety of experts and personalities while holding your own. Most of the experts we work with have never written professionally.
• Strong ability to work autonomously, manage time and get things done.
• A high regard for accuracy, including fact-checking.
• The ability to juggle multiple initiatives at the same time.
• A builder mindset. We will experiment and rebuild as we scale.
• Comfort with change and unknowns. Figuring out how to build Future.com will require us all to be agile and creative. Our jobs will evolve to meet users’ needs and we’ll all keep learning to do that better and better.

Note: All finalist candidates will be asked to take a two-hour editing test, working with copy that will never be published.

a16z culture

• We do only first class business and only in a first class way
• We take a long view of relationships, because we are in the relationship business
• We believe in the future and bet the firm that way
• We are all different, we recognize that, and we win
• We celebrate the good times
• We do it for the team
• We play to win

At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves, our portfolio companies, and the World.

Andreessen Horowitz hereby reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.

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