Senior Editor, The CFO Club

About The CFO Club:
The CFO Club helps finance leaders navigate the complexity of modern finance so they can focus on strategic decision-making, capital efficiency, operational effectiveness, and long-term value creation.
We provide peer-driven insights, practical frameworks, executive playbooks, and community-powered experiences that help CFOs and finance operators lead with greater clarity and confidence in a rapidly changing environment shaped by AI, evolving systems, and organizational complexity.
Our audience includes CFOs, FP&A leaders, controllers, finance operators, and senior decision-makers looking for practical insight, trustworthy guidance, and meaningful professional connection.
 
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Editor to help build The CFO Club into a trusted, community-powered media brand for modern finance leaders.
This role is responsible for growing loyal, engaged finance leadership audiences through authoritative, practitioner-led editorial experiences across articles, newsletters, social, video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and strategic partnerships.
This is not a traditional editing role focused only on publishing content. It is an audience growth and editorial leadership role centered on creating serious-fun, decision-support content that helps finance leaders make better decisions, discover better tools and workflows, and navigate the changing realities of modern financial leadership.
You will help shape the voice, authority, growth, and audience experience of the brand.
Your work should increase subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, return audience behavior, topical authority, and trust with senior finance professionals.
 
Who You Are:
You understand how to create editorial brands that professionals actively trust, return to, and recommend.
You are deeply curious about how finance leaders operate, make decisions, adopt technology, manage teams, and navigate complexity.
You know how to turn practitioner insight into useful editorial experiences that feel credible, clear, visual, engaging, and worth sharing.
You are not just a writer or editor. You are a builder of audience systems, community loops, and repeat engagement.
You think beyond articles and understand that modern editorial engagement happens across newsletters, video, podcasts, social, community discussions, livestreams, events, partnerships, search, and AI discovery experiences.
You are comfortable experimenting with formats, workflows, packaging, distribution strategies, and audience experiences to improve performance over time.
You care about usefulness, clarity, audience trust, and measurable impact.
 
What You’ll Be Doing:
1. Build engaged, community-powered editorial experiences
You will create serious-fun, expert-driven editorial and audience experiences that grow subscribers, increase newsletter engagement, and build loyal finance audiences.
Create, assign, edit, write, and publish editorial content across articles, newsletters, social, short-form video, narrative video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and community formats
Develop content informed by real practitioner insight, including interviews, contributor conversations, finance communities, surveys, Q&As, and social listening
Create audience experiences focused on strategic finance leadership, AI adoption, workflows, forecasting, systems, operational effectiveness, and decision-making
Help program and support webinars, livestreams, roundtables, podcasts, and editorial event experiences
Repurpose editorial IP into newsletter blocks, social content, video clips, lead magnets, reports, and community assets
Ensure editorial output reflects the publication’s tone, usefulness, authority, and audience relevance
Continuously identify opportunities to increase audience participation, contribution, sharing, and return engagement
2. Create insight-led decision-support content that performs
You will create and improve content that helps finance leaders make better operational, strategic, and technology decisions.
Assign, edit, write, optimize, and experiment with JTBD, workflow, systems, tools, and practitioner-led content
Build content that helps finance leaders understand what to do, how to do it, and what tools, systems, or approaches can help
Improve SEO-driven and community-driven content with stronger practitioner insight, storytelling, visuals, structure, examples, CTAs, and internal journeys
Produce and improve decision-support formats such as benchmark reports, salary guides, AI reports, workflow roundups, expert interviews, surveys, member exclusives, and lead magnets
Use Marfeel, GA, HubSpot, newsletter data, and audience performance signals to guide optimization and experimentation
Test headlines, hooks, formats, distribution strategies, CTAs, and conversion pathways to improve performance
Monitor performance across subscriber growth, newsletter clicks, AI visibility, topical authority, engagement, and discoverability
Share learnings, experiments, and repeatable editorial playbooks across the organization
3. Expand audience reach, relationships, and distribution
You will help grow The CFO Club through contributor relationships, strategic partnerships, distribution systems, and community engagement.
Identify, recruit, and manage finance contributors, practitioners, SMEs, partners, and executive voices
Build contributor → content → audience → community growth loops
Act as a visible host and guardian of the brand across newsletters, events, podcasts, social, community spaces, and contributor relationships
Package and distribute content across newsletter, social, search, Discover, podcast, video, community, partner, and digital PR channels
Collaborate on co-created reports, research, surveys, multimedia initiatives, and strategic partnerships
Represent the brand through events, panels, podcasts, conferences, and external opportunities when useful
Build and maintain reusable insight libraries containing interviews, quotes, patterns, transcripts, and community intelligence
Track relationship-building and distribution performance based on subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, RFV, authority signals, and audience quality
 
How Your Success Will Be Measured:
Your success will be measured through:
Growth in ICP subscriber acquisition
Increased newsletter clicks and audience engagement
Growth in returning audience behavior and repeat visits
Increased authority signals, search visibility, and AI discovery presence
Performance of decision-support and practitioner-led content
Audience participation and contributor engagement
Growth in non-organic and community-driven traffic
Successful execution of multimedia, event, and partnership initiatives
Clear evidence that audiences trust, share, and repeatedly engage with the brand
 
Your Skillset Includes:
Strong editorial judgment and audience instincts
Experience creating B2B, practitioner-led, or professional editorial content
Strong interviewing and synthesis skills
Ability to turn complex workflows and operational topics into useful, engaging editorial experiences
Experience growing newsletter engagement, subscriber audiences, or community participation
Experience across multimedia formats including newsletters, social, video, podcasts, webinars, or events
Comfort using analytics and audience signals to guide experimentation and optimization
Experience collaborating with contributors, SMEs, and strategic partners
Understanding of SEO, distribution strategy, audience engagement, and AI discovery trends
Strong organizational and communication skills
Ability to operate with speed, experimentation discipline, and audience empathy
 
Nice to Haves:
Experience covering finance leadership, operations, enterprise technology, FP&A, accounting, or AI adoption
Experience creating benchmark reports, surveys, or insight-led content
Experience hosting or participating in podcasts, webinars, livestreams, or editorial events
Familiarity with tools used by finance organizations and modern finance teams
Experience building community-powered editorial systems or contributor networks
 
Why This Role Matters:
The CFO Club exists to help finance leaders make better decisions in a rapidly changing business environment.
This role helps turn the brand into more than a publication. It helps make The CFO Club a trusted decision-support destination and community-powered media engine for modern finance leadership.
Under your ownership, the brand should become something audiences actively rely on, contribute to, share, and return to repeatedly.

Salary Statement:
This full-time position is available as a remote role that offers an annual base salary in the range of $100,000 to $130,000 USD. The range is a guide for the expected skills, knowledge, and experience for new hires based in USA only. Seniority level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. This means ranges will vary for candidates based outside of USA and/or at different seniority levels. In addition to annual salary, full-time employees are eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.

About Us:
We’re a rapidly growing, independent media tech company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Since 2012, our portfolio of influential digital publications has been helping millions of people succeed at work.

Our brands cover thought leadership for executives in project management, people management, product management, tech, marketing and many others - with the goal of connecting people with knowledge, skills and tools they need to succeed professionally in the age of AI.

We got our start in 2011 as The Digital Project Manager blog, founded by our CEO Ben Aston. Since then, we’ve grown into an international team of 70+ creators, strategists, and innovators with a portfolio of more than 15 online publications. We enjoy an impact-driven environment that combines the agility of a startup with the creativity of an agency and the diversity of a global company.

We’ve previously ranked #30 in The Globe and Mail’s Fastest Growing Companylist as well as Deloitte'sFast 50 program, received a CMI award for Best Digital Publication for The Digital Project Manager—and we’re listed in both Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers, and Best Employers in BC!

All of this growth is driven by our commitment to our mission: In a world of evolving skills, practices, and technology, we’re creating a playbook for the future of work and empowering communities to create it with us.

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