Senior Growth Editor

Summary

Join Mercury's Stories team as a Sr. Growth Editor to enhance the company's content strategy and expand its impact. You will create and amplify content that drives traction, including blog posts, newsletters, videos, and tools. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute special content projects and contribute to editorial operations. Leverage your strong editorial instincts and understanding of content's role in achieving business results. This high-leverage role requires a strategic mindset, creative skills, and the ability to balance big-picture thinking with attention to detail. You will work in a fast-paced environment, testing and learning to optimize content performance. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys storytelling in various formats.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience — think some combination of content, editorial, brand, and/or growth — ideally with a focus on startups/entrepreneurs/creators or financial services
• A strong track record of creating content that drives measurable business outcomes
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with a knack for making complex ideas accessible and engaging
• Experience with formats “beyond the blog” — that might include video, podcasts, data storytelling, infographics, virtual events and webinars, email, social…
• Experience working with and managing freelance contributors
• Strong familiarity with SEO, analytics, and the content funnel, and an eagerness to experiment and optimize
• Comfort working in a remote-first, async-friendly environment with tools like Google Docs, Asana, and Slack

Responsibilities

• Help drive forward a focused editorial direction for Mercury’s blog , creating dynamic content that resonates with our founder audience and ladders up to our growth and brand goals
• Partner with SEO and Growth Marketing to translate keyword opportunities and topic clusters into compelling, differentiated content ideas — and help bring them to life with freelancers or your own pen
• Write, edit, storyboard, and produce cornerstone content , especially in support of key campaigns, growth experiments, and thought leadership
• Maximize content distribution , partnering with Growth, Social, and Community teams to expand reach and performance
• Play a key role in many special content projects , from founder-focused reports to early podcast and video content pilots
• Contribute to editorial ops with a strategic lens , helping evolve systems that make content development smarter and more scalable
• Surface performance insights , helping the team understand what’s working, why, and where to double down

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated or compliance-heavy industry (e.g., fintech, finance, health)
• Familiarity with legal/compliance review processes for marketing content
• A portfolio that showcases editorial sharpness, bold creativity, audience empathy, and measurable results

Benefits

• Base salary
• Equity (stock options)
• Benefits