Financial Editor

We are hiring a financial editor to own the roughly 100 articles a day on briefs.co and the daily Market Briefs newsletter, in-office in downtown Detroit, at $95,000 to $110,000 plus profit share after year one.

We pay at the top of the market on purpose, because we want the person who takes this seat to stay in it, and we expect to hire near the top of that range. Profit share has typically paid between $5,000 and $10,000 a quarter, with no ceiling on it.

Heads up before you apply.

This role takes two steps: applying here and sending us a short video. One without the other doesn't get an interview. Why? Because most resumes look the same, and we are looking to hire the right person fast!

Tell us why you'd be good at this job, and one thing you'd change about briefs.co or Market Briefs after spending a little time with both. You don't have to be right about the change. We want to hear how you think.

Put it anywhere we can watch it, like Google Drive, Dropbox, or an unlisted YouTube link.

Email the link to hello@briefs.co with the subject line Financial Editor - Video Submission, and include links to three pieces you wrote or edited.

Your phone camera is fine. So is your kitchen, one take, and whatever you're wearing right now.

For most of history, serious investment research was for people who already had money. Briefs Finance is changing that. We built one of the top five financial podcasts and YouTube shows in the world, then we built the research and tools that let a regular person understand an investment in minutes, and we were among the first companies anywhere to plug that research straight into ChatGPT and Claude.

Our news site and newsletter are the front door to all of it, and you set the standard for every word. We think this is some of the most exciting work happening in Detroit, and you would be running the voice of it.

What you'll own

Do you love the markets? Do you love breaking news? Do you get a little obsessive about whether a story is actually good?

If so, keep reading. This is the job for you.

We're hiring a full-time Financial Editor to own everything we publish in writing. The news site first, the newsletter second, and the voice across both. If your last job was filing three stories a week and waiting for an editor to tell you what to fix, this isn't that. Here, you are the editor.

You own the news site, roughly 100 articles a day on stocks, the economy, the Fed, earnings and crypto, live on briefs.co. You own Market Briefs, in front of hundreds of thousands of investors every weekday at 7:30 am ET with the audio live, every link working, and nothing broken, then made better every week. A referral program, one experiment a week, and a reader score that moves from 8 out of 10 to 9.5. You own newsletter operations too, send times, deliverability, list health, unsubscribe rate, and the email platform migration we are in the middle of. If a reader replies to the newsletter and gets a bounce, you are the one who notices.

You are the final word on how Briefs sounds, on the site, in the newsletter, and on the voice pass for Briefs Pro reports and advertorials. We read like a story, not like a filing. Plain English, credible, easy to scroll. If it sounds like a bot wrote it, it doesn't ship.

When one article takes off, you are already publishing the follow-ups before anyone asks. Capitalizing on a spike is the job, not a bonus.

Market Briefs is sponsor supported, so you write and quality check sponsor ad copy with our partnerships team, making sure it fits the newsletter and that readers always know what is an ad.

As for AI, you own how we use it to research, draft and check the work, and you keep pushing that further every month. We don't believe in AI slop, but we do believe in using the tools we have to make good things more efficient.

You will know your numbers every week. Corrections. Reader score. Ad click-through. Unsubscribe rate. And leads, because everything we publish exists to turn readers into leads. Traffic first, leads follow. You own how lead capture is positioned in articles and in the newsletter, and you are measured on leads from both every month.

Who you are

You don't need to be a financial expert. You do need to know the markets well enough to catch a bad take before it publishes, and a background in finance is a real advantage. If you are not familiar with basic financial concepts like inflation, this is not the role for you.

You have run a daily publication. Three or more years writing or editing financial news, including at least one stretch where you were responsible for something going out on a schedule every single day.

You use AI every day and you are honest about what it is good at. Claude, ChatGPT, whatever gets the job done. You can build a repeatable workflow, not just type a prompt. And you can spot AI-sounding prose from across the room, because our readers can.

You are fast and you are careful, both at once. Volume does not scare you and it does not make you sloppy.

You write things down. Deadlines, commitments, what you learned when something broke. You raise capacity problems before they become missed deadlines, with specifics.

You own your asset. Nobody has to tell you the site should be good. When a story blows up, you are already on the follow-up before anyone asks. When something is not working, you say so and then fix it anyway.

You are obsessive in the good way. The kind of editor who reads five other outlets every morning and wants to know exactly why yours is better or worse.

Nice to have, but not required: A Series 65 or similar credential, which we will sponsor. Published bylines at a major finance outlet. GA4, Ahrefs, or HubSpot.

About Briefs Finance

We are on a mission to help 1.3 billion people be better with money. We do it through a top-five financial podcast and YouTube show, a free daily newsletter called Market Briefs, a paid research and education platform called Briefs Pro, and AI-powered stock research tools. Learn more at https://www.briefs.co and on our social media pages.