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TechCrunch seeks a global managing editor

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world. Want in?

TechCrunch, one of the world’s foremost sources of information on emerging technology, is looking for a Global Managing Editor who can manage a team of editors and writers as they look to dominate coverage of the sprawling startup ecosystem, from investment firms and VCs to entrepreneurs and startups.

As our Global Managing Editor, you’ll be responsible for helping to establish what makes a TechCrunch story ready for prime time and the processes that should be followed toward that end.

As important, you’ll serve as a mentor, gently helping our talented writing staff to broaden its base of sources; better understand how to craft a breaking news story; and how to more effectively gather string and craft rich stories about the drama and glory behind the enterprises and industries that both our audience and our sources are trying to disrupt.

TechCrunch often covers stories weeks, months or years before they enter mainstream consciousness. A strong proactive sensibility and good instincts will serve well in this environment.

We need someone who:

  • Has an obsessive desire to lead a team of several dozen as they report on emergent tech companies and the personalities behind them
  • Can work across a team of editors to devise and shape editorial strategy
  • Has the ability to spot a TechCrunch news story from miles away
  • Can write content related to the business of tech
  • Can develop and write features
  • Can develop and write analysis pieces
  • Can present numbers in unique and varying ways, i.e. via charts, graphs, galleries
  • Will report up to and work closely with the Editor in Chief
  • Has 12+ years of experience across both traditional and digital media
  • Has a proven track record of managing a team of reporters who can break news and make an impact
  • Is deeply sourced in Silicon Valley and beyond
  • Possesses knowledge of and understand the importance of SEO
  • Can write headlines that capture the imagination of readers
  • Relishes work and particular mentoring others
  • Relishes processes and is effective in instituting these (without being overbearing)
  • Has a positive attitude

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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