Editor, Axios Local

The big picture: Axios is dedicated to providing trustworthy, award-winning news in an audience-first format.

We now publish daily newsletters in 39 cities across America — and counting.

We're hiring an editor to work with our teams in the Mountain/West region, especially focusing on our expansion in the Phoenix area.

Why it matters: You'll work with reporters in multiple cities, helping them get their local readers smarter, faster on the news, events and local folkways that matter most to them.

Go deeper: You care deeply about the future of local news and are obsessed with cooking up innovative ways to reimagine it.

You take a people-first approach to management.

You're comfortable guiding expert reporters in a remote-first environment.

And you're skilled at delivering consistent, clear, constructive feedback.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Managing and supporting reporters through editorial brainstorming and execution.
• Owning the company's vision and communicating it clearly to your teams.
• Experimenting with and leveraging AI to drive workflow efficiencies.
• Story and newsletter editing in our Smart Brevity style.
• Write stories and newsletter items when needed.

Worthy of your time: Ideal candidates will operate with a startup mentality and an entrepreneurial spirit, and have the following skills and qualities:

• Preferably is located in the Phoenix area and/or has a deep familiarity with it.
• Experience in a fast-paced newsroom. (Experience editing daily newsletters is a plus.)
• A deep understanding of the greater Phoenix area and what topics are important to the people who live there.
• Sharp story framing skills, and the ability to help reporters craft conceptual scoops.
• Strong conversational writing skills, and the ability to coach reporters to write conversationally.
• Confidence working in a remote-first environment.
• Experience managing reporters at varying levels of seniority.
• A belief in Smart Brevity.
• The desire to help make your teams indispensable to local readers.

Starting salary for this role is in the range of $85,000 - $105,000 and is dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, and skills.

This range does not include other compensation benefits.