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Senior Technical Content Editor

United StatesTechnical WritingRemote5+ YOE
Summary

Senior Technical Content Editor role focused on editing security reports and producing marketing content. Requires strong editorial skills, technical fluency in cybersecurity, and proactive content creation abilities.

About the role

Technical Editing and Content Quality

  • Edit security reports across application security, blockchain, cryptography, AI/ML, and research & engineering engagements. Ensure technical accuracy, clarity, and adherence to Trail of Bits style standards.
  • Develop, edit, and publish posts on the Trail of Bits blog, the primary channel for our research and thought leadership.
  • Manage publication through GitHub pull requests and coordinate with internal and external reviewers.
  • Manage the team's report tracker and quality metrics systems, giving leadership visibility into editing throughput, revision cycles, and delivery timelines.
  • Build and refine Claude-based tools for content creation and editorial refinement, freeing the team to focus on higher-value work.
  • Lead document design beyond reports: SOWs, proposals, engineer bios, program overviews, QBR materials, case studies, and testimonials.
  • Shape editorial standards and style guide evolution.

Marketing Content and Amplification

  • Identify and produce marketing content proactively: blog posts, case studies, social threads, newsletter sections, and event collateral.
  • Own the content calendar in coordination with the Technical Marketing Manager and Lead Technical Editor.
  • Create and publish social media content across X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Telegram.
  • Lead proactive story extraction: interview engineers, capture transcripts, and develop drafts from research and tool releases.
  • Work directly with engineering directors to understand their roadmaps and extract content from their teams.
  • Write and edit content for demand generation campaigns, email sequences, webinar materials, and conference activations.
  • Maintain and grow the newsletter pipeline with content curation, section drafts, and repurposed content.
  • Elevate the writing and communication of team members across GTM and engineering.

What You’ll Bring

  • Strong editorial skills with experience working at every level of editing, from line-level edits to structural reorganization.
  • Experience editing against in-house and standard style guides (Chicago and/or AP).
  • Technical content experience editing for accuracy, clarity, and concision in cybersecurity or another technical field.
  • Experience partnering with subject matter experts to draw out and shape content.
  • Technical fluency and resourcefulness with the ability to research answers and improve narrative without changing technical meaning.
  • Proactive story instincts to monitor tool releases, conference talk abstracts, internal channels, and industry news.
  • Writing ability to produce original content including blog posts, case studies, and social threads.
  • Content marketing awareness with experience on campaigns, content calendars, or marketing assets in a technical B2B environment.
  • Tool proficiency in GitHub, Hugo, Slack, markdown, and AI-assisted editing tools like Claude.
  • Experience building or using automation to speed up editorial workflows.
  • Ownership and independence with the ability to operate with minimal direction.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with InDesign or equivalent design tools for document layout and visual materials.
  • Background in content production for cybersecurity, developer tools, or another technical discipline.
  • Familiarity with HubSpot or similar marketing automation platforms.
  • Experience structuring web content for AI discoverability.
Skills
Technical EditingContent MarketingGitHubHugoMarkdownClaudeAI-assisted EditingBlog WritingSocial Media ContentNewsletter Production