Job Title: Head of Editorial
Location: Remote (EU or UK)
Type: Full-time
ProWritingAid already serves an audience of over one million writers around the world. Now, we want to deepen that impact—not just by improving craft, but by helping writers gain a deeper understanding of their minds.
Writing is one of the hardest things a human can do.
It demands vulnerability, identity, cognitive strain, and emotional endurance. Most writers don’t quit because they lack talent. They quit because writing is psychologically taxing.
Chris Banks, CEO of ProWritingAid, is on a mission to change that and help bring more life-changing books into the world.
His upcoming book, The Writer’s Mind (Penguin early-2027), explores the psychology of writing—why it feels so difficult, how identity shapes creative output, and how writers can build the mental resilience to keep going.
To accelerate this mission, we're looking for a Head of Editorial to build the demand-generation platform around these ideas. This person will turn the psychology of writing into a category-defining content engine—creating articles, newsletters, podcast, video content and thought leadership that connects with writers wherever they in the writer journey. Their goal will be to grow and nurture a large audience, deepen writers' understanding of themselves and their creative process, and ultimately help more people discover and benefit from ProWritingAid.
We are building on our existing demand capture acquisition model to create an editorial-led demand generation engine. Our ambition is to reach writers, and those who dream of writing a book, before they are actively searching for a tool or even “in-market” for one.
You will build and lead the editorial function that makes that happen.
This means deciding what ProWritingAid publishes across platforms, setting the editorial voice, directing on-camera talent including the CEO and creators, and building a content system that runs at scale. You will own the email newsletter, Substack, shape the podcast, develop the YouTube brief, and make sure the short-form content on TikTok and Instagram comes from the same editorial thinking as the long-form work.
You will report to the VP of Marketing, collaborate with social, lifecycle, community, and partnerships teams on distribution, and work closely with the CEO to shape content direction.
We’re looking for editorial leadership to grow and nurture an audience of writers. The right candidate will have strong opinions about what is worth publishing and why, and experience to direct creative work across formats and talent.