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Editorial Lead

Contract to start. Converts to full-time. Remote, with travel to our events.

A $25T industry of immense influence is taking shape.

Come help us accelerate it! 

We’re hiring an editorial lead at The Private Markets Forum - someone who can own our content’s voice at the same time as you work with me to build an AI-native intelligence product. 

You won't just file pieces. You'll build the engine underneath them: the AI-native system that turns 20 interviews into a compounding stream of research, briefs, and events the industry looks forward to. You’ll work with me (Marc Andrew) to build a five-person team that can produce the content that pushes the category of private capital forward, as we build a  system that gets smarter every week. 

You'll be paid well to write all the time, about fascinating people doing consequential work. You'll learn every day. 

And you'll help drive real outcomes in the most consequential category in the world.

It's the most important hire we'll make this year, and it might be the best seat at the intersection of capital and technology going right now.

Read on if that sounds interesting…

What PMF is:

Private capital is becoming the dominant form of capital allocation globally. 

The operating layer underneath it, the systems that move its information and shape its decisions, is still mostly dark.

Public markets had Bloomberg, Nasdaq, Morningstar. Private markets don't have that yet. We're accelerating its build.

PMF is building the category intelligence platform for private markets technology and infrastructure. We sit between the operators running private capital and the firms building for them, and we turn what we hear into content, research and deeply informative events the industry actually looks forward to.

Our purpose is to make private capital more legible, more clear, more seamless - to help direct its power in service of the commonwealth: all of us. Because when the operating layer is opaque, capital misallocates. Pension funds underperform. Infrastructure doesn't get built. Better information infrastructure for private markets isn't a nice to have. It's the precondition for private capital doing the job it claims to do.

We cover this category one way. Not "here's what happened." Not "here's our sponsor."

One lens, on everything: here's how this moves the operating layer forward or doesn't.

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Most people who read this won’t be a fit. We’d rather you screen yourself out now than discover the mismatch in week three. 

So here’s who this is not for:

-> This isn’t for you if a full calendar drains you: This role lives on calls. Five or six Zoom conversations a day with operators, sponsors, and analysts is a normal day, not a bad one. If you need long stretches of quiet desk time to feel productive, if back-to-back conversations leave you depleted, you’ll be miserable here and you will not produce. 

-> This isn’t for you if you measure your work in hours: Nobody here gets credit for effort, for being busy, or for putting in the time. The only thing that counts is what shipped. "I worked hard on this" is not a result. If you have ever defended weak output by pointing to the hours behind it, we are not your people.

-> This isn’t for you if you do not use AI constantly (like, every 10 minutes) We’re an AI-native operation. A five-person editorial team here does what used to take fifty. If your honest answer to "how do you use AI in your work" is "a little," or "I'm starting to think about it," or anything that sounds like hesitation, please don’t apply. We need someone who already works inside these tools fluently and is hungry to push them further.

-> This isn’t for you if you think length signals quality. We write in plain words and short sentences. Specific over abstract. "Apollo acquired Atlas SP for $5 billion," not "in today's evolving landscape." If your instinct under pressure is to write more, build a bigger framework, or produce a beautiful strategy document instead of shipping the thing, this is the wrong place.

-> This isn’t for you if you define yourself as a traditional journalist or consider yourself pure stylist. We are not building a publication that wins awards nobody reads. We’re building information infrastructure for an industry. If your instinct is the perfect sentence over the useful one, this is the wrong seat.

If none of that scared you off, keep reading!

What you’ll own:

You’ll run the editorial engine across our categories: private credit technology, private wealth distribution infrastructure, LP technology, AI in private markets, continuation vehicles, secondaries. Each category has a beat. Each beat produces a stream of intelligence: the flagship research, the dispatch, the briefs, the inputs to events..

You'll help build and run the intelligence substrate that turns 20 interviews into a compounding engine of high-quality, fresh, deeply useful content for the industry, where a five-person team out-produces a fifty-person newsroom because the system gets smarter every week. 

Here's the skill, made concrete: a sponsor comes to us wanting to talk about their AI analytics product. Our audience doesn't need a product pitch. Instead, we make sure to learn what operators are struggling with: for example, it may be reconciling fund data across managers, custodians, and administrators. So we build a research brief or a panel around that real problem, and the product shows up as part of the answer the room arrives at.

When accomplished through this method, the audience never feels sold to. The sponsor gets exactly what they wanted. The judgment does the work. Most people break one way, too commercial or too editorial. You don't.

You’ll be a player-coach in this role. You produce the best pieces yourself, you set the standard, and you’ll soon manage 2-5 analysts who cover the other beats. You keep the voice consistent across everyone's work. You are not a manager who stopped doing the work. Everyone here is an individual contributor first.

Concretely, you would:

-> Own at least one category beat yourself and produce its sharpest work

-> Manage 2-4 analysts covering the remaining beats, edit their work, hold the quality bar

-> Carry the PMF editorial lens across everything: the angle that makes a piece genuinely useful to operators, never reads as advertising, and serves the audience and the sponsor at the same time

-> Turn one research product into a waterfall:  pillar piece, podcast, brief, the distribution that makes the industry pay attention

-> Build the editorial team's working rhythm and make it run without the founder in every decision

-> Be someone who could sit across from a Fortune 100 CTO, run the conversation, and hold your own

What we’re screening for:

Four things. They are all required. Most people have one or two. Almost nobody has all four. If you have all four, we want to talk today.

1. Operator-level depth: You genuinely nerd out on this space (or can see yourself doing so very soon!) You don’t need to be an expert yet, but you do need to find it fascinating. Soon, you could go deep with a CTO at a $10B credit manager and they would feel you understood their world.

2. AI-native fluency: You work inside the tools every day and you treat them as the multiplier that lets a small team punch far above its weight.

3. Room presence: You can moderate a roundtable of senior operators and run it well. People trust how you think. You’re the kind of person others want to be around.

4. Player-coach output: You write pieces people stop to read, and you can lead two other writers to the same bar without becoming a pure manager.

Our values:

Speed wins: We work with a calm urgency. We move fast without panic. We move with great pace at the same time as we lower stress at every turn.

We're building something totally original, and deeply useful: What we put out is ours. AI does the volume and the speed. Your judgment, taste, and reporting do the part that can't be automated, and that part is what makes it ours. If a piece could have come from anyone else, or from AI without your edit, it shouldn't come from us.

We measure impact, not hours: Hours don't count. Frameworks don't count. What shipped, what closed, what landed - that counts... We work with focus, discipline and speed. 

100% integrity in all things: Truth, work, trust, each other. How we do the work, and treat each other, and treat our customers - as thoughtful, wonderful humans - is the most important thing in this business. We're a tight team with each other's back.

We win together: The team's job is each other's wins. It's a lateral lift, in every direction.

To apply send us:

-> The best thing you've written. About anything. The piece itself, not a description of it.

-> Three publications or writers doing forward-leaning work you admire. One line each on why.

-> Optional task: “take something complex in private markets tech and explain it in 3-4 sentences a busy COO would actually read.”

-> Your LinkedIn, and X if you use it.

No formal resume required. We care what you can do, not how you present where you’ve been.

Email: marc@private-markets.com

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