Stand Together, Inc.

Senior Editor, Brand and Narrative Marketing & Communications – Content /Full-time /On-site Location: Arlington, VA Department: Marketing & Communications – Content Job Description: Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society. As a Senior Editor, Brand & Narrative on our Editorial team, you will supervise a team of editorial specialists and drive content to align with brand and messaging standards. The Senior Editor will work alongside a dynamic team of marketing, communications, and copywriter professionals implementing engaging and effective content strategies that inspire movements of millions of people to participate in new and better ways to tackle our country’s biggest problems. These strategies span multiple channels and platforms, including web articles, video publishing assets, paid ads, and organic social channels, among others. The ideal candidate brings experience in marketing and communications, publishing, journalism, and/or related fields to support day-to-day implementation and long-term strategic projects. As Senior Editor, you’ll be responsible for working across multiple teams in a highly matrixed organization, liaising with external agency partners, ensuring all content adheres to our brand guidelines, and applying an entrepreneurial mindset to continuously identify opportunities to optimize content against defined goals and KPIs. How You Will Contribute Content Editing and Strategy - Review and revise content produced by a team of copywriters, ensuring clarity of messaging, adherence to brand standards (positioning, tone, voice), accuracy (spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax), and quality assurance. - Partner with internal stakeholders as marketing campaigns take shape, advising on what editorial can bring to the table – and then executing with your team of writers and/or freelancers. - Partner with the intelligence and digital teams to track audience data and engagement metrics against KPIs that effectively measure the impact and success of written content; continuously identify opportunities to optimize current and future content accordingly. - Identify gaps and recommend updates to brand content and style guides. Communication and Collaboration - Develop communication touchpoints with key stakeholders to ensure an effective two-way flow of knowledge and feedback that best supports and advances content objectives. - Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure final products align with diverse audience interests and perspectives. - Partner with the production team to ensure that website content is published on time and in accordance with quality assurance standards. - Liaise with agency partners where appropriate, including content briefings and drafts. What You Will Bring - 7+ years of professional experience in marketing and communications, publishing, journalism, and/or related fields, demonstrating career growth and an intimate familiarity with the latest content best practices and trends. - 2+ years of supervising a team. - Proven success in translating organizational vision and messaging into compelling content - Demonstrated experience with understanding the needs of different audiences/stakeholder groups and finding mutually beneficial solutions when those needs appear to be at odds. - A highly organized approach with proven ability to deliver to tight deadlines and work within a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment requiring quick execution and flexibility. - Superior written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.  - Extreme attention to detail.  - Baseline knowledge of SEO.  - Preference for exposure to agency relations (as a client or agency representative).  - Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect. What We Offer - Competitive benefits: Enjoy a 6% 401(k) match with immediate vesting, flexible time off, comprehensive health and dental plans, plus wellness and mental health support through Peloton and Talkspace. - A meaningful career: Join a passionate community of over 1,300 employees dedicated to improving lives and driving innovative solutions to complex social challenges. - Commitment to growth: Thrive in a non-hierarchical environment that empowers employees to discover, develop and apply their unique talents. - Competitive compensation: Our approach rewards the value you create through competitive salaries and bonus opportunities, allowing you to share in the success you help drive. $120,000 - $145,000 a year For this role, the anticipated base salary range is $120,000–$145,000 per year. This role may also be eligible for additional bonus compensation designed to align total compensation with an employee’s overall contribution to the organization. Our Principles-Based Management™ (PBM) compensation philosophy is grounded in an individualized approach that rewards the long-term value each person creates for the organization. Compensation decisions are informed by a variety of factors, including relevant experience, capabilities, demonstrated skills, role responsibilities, and expected contribution. Consistent with this approach, base salary may vary within or outside of the anticipated range based on these considerations. Our Values: Working for an organization within the Stand Together philanthropic community is different from many other places. The culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation. We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, and respect. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

• Contribute to architecture, design, and technical decision-making across the full application stack, including React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backend services, Contentful CMS integrations, and AWS cloud infrastructure. • Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performing APIs that serve as the foundation for consumer-facing applications. • Oversee CMS content modeling and editorial workflow optimization within Contentful CMS. • Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and system reliability. • Ensure compliance with security, governance, and cloud infrastructure best practices within AWS, including IAM least-privilege, private S3 patterns, and secrets management. • Establish and enforce engineering standards, best practices, and scalable design patterns. • Provide technical mentorship, supervision, and performance guidance to engineers. • Partner with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions • Support sprint planning, technical estimation, roadmap development, and hiring efforts.

• Partner with business leaders to understand priorities, growth plans, and operational needs, translating them into clear real estate strategies and recommendations • Lead end-to-end execution of real estate transactions (openings, renewals, relocations, closures) from intake through completion • Maintain accountability across cross-functional teams—including IT, Security, Construction, Finance, Legal, and external partners—by defining ownership, tracking deliverables, and ensuring consistent updates across all teams. • Manage timelines, budgets, risks, and dependencies to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with minimal disruption • Maintain accurate project and portfolio data in systems, ensuring decisions, risks, and timelines are documented and visible, while conducting post-project reviews to identify opportunities for improving processes, systems, and execution standards • Provide clear, concise communication and reporting to stakeholders and leadership • Contribute to building scalable, repeatable real estate processes and increasing overall portfolio visibility

• Own the Agile practice: define standards, build playbooks, and ensure consistency of execution across teams. • Hire, develop, and manage a team of Scrum Masters; set craft expectations, support career growth, and maintain a high bar for the function. • Lead Agile maturity assessments across teams and translate findings into prioritized, actionable improvement plans. • Build and maintain a leadership-facing view of delivery health: normalized metrics, dashboards, and sprint insights that give leaders a reliable, consistent signal across the portfolio. • Serve as the primary internal point of contact for delivery model governance—connecting Agile execution to intake, prioritization, and cross-team dependency management. • Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to optimize and advance delivery team objectives. • Own Jira workflow standards, reporting integrity, and tooling consistency across delivery teams; ensure the data in the system is trustworthy and useful. • Identify opportunities to reduce administrative burden through automation, AI-assisted tooling, and process simplification. • Build a community of practice that elevates Agile craft across EIT and creates a shared language for delivery excellence.

• Own the relationship. Build and manage high-touch relationships with leaders, implementing partners, and key stakeholders across your track — whether that's local organizations in priority cities or points-of-contact within national organizational networks. • Drive activation strategy. Develop and execute activation strategies tailored to the conditions of each market or network rather than applying a single model. • Build the leader pipeline. Identify and recruit leaders into the BTP community, working alongside partners to accelerate onboarding and integration. • Create reciprocal models. Build partnership structures and engagement approaches where partners and leaders feel genuinely connected to BTP's mission — not extracted for content or stories. • Run activation touchpoints. Execute convenings, partner events, and leader onboarding moments in close coordination with your Community Manager. • Generate the learning. Capture what drove engagement and what didn't — and feed that signal back into the operating model systematically. • Build toward self-mode. Develop relationships and structures that create self-sustaining activation pipelines over time. • Track what matters. Monitor progress toward activation goals and surface clear signals on what conditions enable self-sustaining growth. • Coordinate with Partner Engine. Work with the Partner Lead, relationship managers, and relevant colleagues to ensure activation is coordinated with broader partner and donor-engagement work. • Connect across tracks. Partner with the other Sr. EM to identify where regional and organizational activation intersect and reinforce each other. • Support platform adoption. Collaborate with the Platform team to ensure leader onboarding is smooth and the platform actively supports activation on the ground.

• Plan and run the gatherings. Design and execute convenings, workshops, and activation touchpoints — whether in regional markets or within national partner networks — from logistics to facilitation to follow-through. • Build the cadence. Establish a rhythm of touchpoints that keeps the community active and connected without burning people out. • Manage the logistics. Own relationships with venues, vendors, and logistics partners. Make every gathering run smoothly so the experience is the only thing leaders remember. • Capture what comes out of the room. Document stories, connections, and insights from each event and feed them back into the team and the platform. • Managing and supporting online community circles, including setting up and organizing spaces, moderating discussions, and driving member engagement. • Build leader-to-leader connections. Make the introductions, identify the common ground, and create peer relationships that persist beyond any individual event. • Support leader onboarding. Help new leaders integrate into the BTP community — making sure they know who else is in the network and what they can do together. • Track community health. Monitor who is showing up, who is bringing others, and who is ready to play a larger role in the network. • Identify emerging leaders. Spot community members who are ready to step into a more active role and connect them with opportunities within BTP. • Coordinate closely with your Sr. EM. Serve as the execution layer for activation strategy — whether that's coordinating with Radius leads in regional markets or working inside national partner networks with organizational counterparts. • Support implementing partners. Help local partners or organizational partners run their own activations within the BTP framework, lowering the lift for them to participate. • Be the connective tissue. Serve as the link between the Sr. EM, Radius teams or partner organizations, and the leaders in each market or network. • Connect across tracks. Coordinate with the other Community Manager on opportunities where regional and organizational leader communities can intersect.

• Own the funnel. Drive acquisition and conversion across paid search, social-to-web, partner inbound, and PR. Set targets, instrument the funnel with the data team, and run growth experiments on a weekly cadence. • Build a segment-aware go-to-market. Design entry points that fit each audience and contributor segment rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. Move new users from first touch to first contribution as efficiently as possible. • Run the lifecycle and email program. Map campaigns to the user journey so every message has a job, from the first consumer email through repeat civic action. • Drive findability. Partner with product and tech on SEO and GEO so BTP dominates branded and topic search and anchors AI-overview citations. • Open leader-side growth. As partner self-service comes online, own how leaders discover BTP, build a page, and publish their first opportunity. • Measure what matters. Define and report the growth metrics that map to the product: story submissions, contribution actions per visitor, social share-through rate, segment engagement, and organic ranking. • Own the content engine. Storytelling templates, onboarding copy, website copy, the email program, and partner toolkits all sit here. Lower the friction for leaders to submit stories that move people. • Lead the editorial function. Manage the content strategist and the content calendar. Hold a single source of truth for homepage, About, and brand voice across competing stakeholder input. • Make everything shareable. Treat every piece of content as a referral surface and turn each story leaving the platform into a measurable acquisition unit. • Run the user-generated content motion. Capture the social proof communities already produce, amplify what works, and feed that signal back into product. • Coordinate content across journeys. Align content owners across partner journeys with product, project management, and creative partners so the right content lands at the right step. • Own the support experience. Lead the user and leader support experience and its transition from contractors to in-house by the end of Q3. • Manage customer success. Oversee partner and leader onboarding, training, place-based activations, and day-to-day support through the customer success lead. • Build self-service. Stand up the help content, FAQs, and resource pages that scale support without scaling headcount one-for-one. • Close the loop with the product. Turn recurring user friction into prioritized product and content fixes so support sharpens the roadmap instead of just absorbing volume. • Set the bar for coverage and quality. Establish support standards that hold as the platform opens to self-service and the user base grows. • Manage and develop a small, high-output team including a Content Strategist and Customer Success Lead. • Partner closely with product, engineering, the data team, and content and creative partners to maintain a tight weekly loop between user signal and what ships next.

Manage event planning documents, oversee supplies inventory, produce printed materials, and provide on-site support for various events, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment.

• Work with the product team leadership to shape direction and own the prioritized backlog for assigned areas of the Be The People platform. • Run discovery: user interviews, usability sessions, and ongoing research with partners and end users. • Partner with engineering and design on weekly delivery cycles and same-week content updates. • Define success metrics and partner with growth analytics on measurement and experimentation. • Coordinate releases, communication, and rollout across Stand Together community organizations. • Maintain a healthy backlog in partnership with the Scrum Master and engineering leadership. • Translate user, partner, and stakeholder needs into clear product decisions.

• Lead UX design for assigned areas of the Be The People platform • Run discovery alongside the Product team, including user interviews, usability testing, and concept validation • Design at multiple altitudes: end-to-end journeys, page-level flows, and weekly content updates • Partner with the engineering team to guide implementation and the design system as the platform evolves • Bring content design judgment to the platform; partner with content owners on voice and clarity • Contribute to design ops practice, including patterns, documentation, and review rituals • Drive a design culture that supports iterative, evidence-driven product development and creating delightful experiences for users