a16z is hiring a

Crypto/Web3 Editor

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 change. 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.

The crypto/Web 3 editor role is particularly critical part for Future’s coverage, as Web 3 remakes tech infrastructure, business models, and many more aspects of the internet and our world. In this role, the editor will have a direct impact on shaping the discussions, debates, and ideas that builders and technologists are working through right now.

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Track relevant industry developments, and surface fresh angles from diverse voices, thinkers, and builders.
• Build and maintain relationships with expert contributors, including doing significant outreach.
• 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 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.)
• Create and manage a broader editorial calendar to keep pace with the ever-evolving Web 3 world, including both standout op-eds and features, as well as larger packages
• Work with our editorial team to develop ideas for various story formats and approaches on distribution.
• Run and measure editorial experiments, leveraging analytics to iterate and to grow our audience.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated depth in covering or working in the crypto/Web 3 world, with a passion for helping non-experts understand and engage with the space. We need someone who can bridge the gap between the innovators and technical experts on the frontier of Web 3 and those who are curious but need a way in.
• At least five years of editing at a major media outlet or thriving startup or business, or a combo of that. We’re looking only for seasoned editors, and we pay accordingly.
• 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

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