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