Managing Editor, Press

About Stripe Press

Stripe Press publishes ideas for progress in technology, science, and economics. Our mission is to publish fewer books that challenge and galvanize a global, fiercely curious audience.

About the Role

Stripe Press is seeking a Managing Editor to own the editorial development and execution of its publishing program. This role requires exceptional editorial judgment and project management skills to guide intellectually ambitious nonfiction from acquisition through final proofs and production-ready handoff.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the editorial path of every Stripe Press book from acquisition through final proofs and handoff to production.
• Establish and manage editorial schedules spanning manuscript delivery, editorial review, revision, copyediting, fact-checking, permissions, indexing, proofreading, and final approval.
• Evaluate manuscripts for structure, argument, clarity, pacing, voice, evidence, and accessibility, ensuring that complex ideas remain accurate and intellectually substantive.
• Establish clear expectations with authors and provide candid, actionable guidance throughout development. Provide direct developmental or line-editing support when a project requires senior intervention.
• Determine the appropriate editorial and verification process for each book, including when to commission technical, legal, or other specialist review.
• Build, commission, and supervise a trusted network of developmental editors, line editors, copyeditors, fact-checkers, proofreaders, indexers, typesetters, and specialist reviewers.
• Give final editorial approval before manuscripts enter production, and remain responsible for editorial decisions and author review through the proof stages.
• Maintain the Stripe Press house style and create clear, repeatable workflows and handoffs across editorial and production.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Significant experience managing complex nonfiction books at a trade, academic, journalistic, or ideas-focused publishing organization.
• Exceptional editorial judgment across structure, argument, prose, evidence, and authorial voice.
• Comfort working with technical, scientific, economic, historical, or otherwise research-intensive nonfiction.
• Deep knowledge of developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, fact-checking, permissions, proofreading, and editorial-production workflows.
• Enjoyment of operating in a small, ambitious organization where systems are still being built.
• Shared appetite for ideas that can improve how people understand and shape the world.
• Exceptional project management skills, capable of coordinating multiple complex projects and timelines with a high degree of precision.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience helping to launch or materially scale a publishing program, list, or imprint.
• Experience developing editorial standards, tools, or workflows that improved quality and execution in a growing organization.