Editorial Lead Manager

Description:

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role: Elastic is building a next-generation corporate newsroom, and we are hiring a Corporate Reporter and Editorial Lead to help develop it.

This is not a content marketing role. It is an in-house journalism role inside a global communications organization, responsible for finding, reporting, and shaping the stories that define Elastic’s role in AI, security, observability, and the future of data.

You will operate like a beat reporter embedded inside a technology company: developing sources across engineering, product, research, security, policy, customers, and partners; surfacing stories before they are obvious; and publishing high-credibility, knowledge-first editorial content that shapes how the industry thinks.

This role blends traditional journalistic instincts with digital-first storytelling. One day, you might be reporting a long-form feature on agentic AI in production environments. Next, you could be driving rapid-response commentary, snackable social explainers, or an executive op-ed tied to breaking industry news.

This role is based in North America.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Story Mining & Rapid Response: Surface and shape high-impact stories from across Elastic, including products, engineering, security research, customers, policy, and culture. Partner closely with the communications team on newsjacking and rapid-response storytelling, helping turn industry moments, product developments, and research into timely, credible narratives that travel.
• Story Format Experimentation: Continuously experiment with new formats, including short-form video, LinkedIn-native storytelling, newsletters, podcasts, interactive features, and other owned channels to extend the reach and relevance of core reporting.
• Editorial Planning: Build forward-looking editorial plans aligned with product launches, research, major industry moments, and AI ecosystem events, while remaining agile to respond to the news cycle. You will balance long-term narrative arcs with real-time storytelling, knowing when to hold the plan and when to break it.
• Editorial Standards & Voice: You will set and uphold a new bar for accuracy, clarity, substance, and narrative flow across all editorial output. This role is grounded in knowledge-first storytelling with authority. It is not demand-generation copy, but high-integrity editorial work designed to earn trust and influence.
• AI-Forward Editorial Workflow: You will help build an AI-forward editorial workflow using AI tools to accelerate research, assist drafting, multiply formats, and personalize distribution, while maintaining strong human editorial judgment. You will play a key role in designing Elastic’s next-generation editorial engine.

What You Bring:

• A deep interest and expertise in tech news and feature writing and have a recent background in journalism with at least 5–7+ years of professional writing and editing experience.
• Exceptional writing experience with the ability to adapt your style and edit for another person’s voice.
• Strong copy-editing skills, with a sharp attention to detail, grammar, clarity, and flow.
• Strong project management skills, with experience building schedules, managing deadlines, and coordinating reviews across stakeholders.
• Are energized by Elastic’s open-source roots and excited to tell stories about how our community and customers use our technology to solve real-world problems.