Editor / Newsletter Lead

Unusual Whales is hiring!

We are one of the largest voices in finance. If you join our team, your work will be seen by hundreds of millions of people, including some of the most powerful decision makers in finance and government.

We have open roles for people with backgrounds in finance journalism, dev relations, content creation, and software engineering.

Posted by: Matt Saincome, CEO at Unusual Whales

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Unusual Whales is a financial data company with a focus on US markets & options. We process around 5-10 million option trades each day (depending on volatility), 67 million stock trades and have customers from retail investors to hedge funds and leading media companies. We are a small team with employees from all over the world and are remote first (we do not have an office). We don't have regular weekly meetings and just focus on the one thing we love: Code & building cool software.

Unusual Whales is one of the largest voices in finance. Known for aggregating and covering the news, we're now building a team that will help us break the news, build out a fleet of editorial newsletters, and expand our media operations.

Unusual Whales is known for publishing uncomfortable data about financial and political corruptions. We are interested in pushing that further with new reporting on what is true, what is provable, and what matters.

Unusual Whales is looking for an Editor / Newsletter Lead to help build and run a growing portfolio of finance and business journalism products, with a particular focus on premium newsletters and recurring investigative features.

This person will own editorial quality, structure, and consistency across newsletter products while also managing a rotating bench of freelance reporters. The right candidate understands that a strong editorial product is not just good writing. It is judgment, packaging, sequencing, standards, and the discipline to publish work that feels essential.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will edit stories, assign and manage freelancers, sharpen ideas, develop newsletter formats, and help turn major stories into products readers open habitually and talk about publicly.

If you love Unusual Whales, believe in what we're building, and want to help take the platform to the next level, we'd still encourage you to reach out even if you are currently at a large organization or coming from a significantly higher compensation structure. We're interested in meeting outstanding people, even when the fit is not a standard one on paper.

Responsibilities

• Edit newsletters, features, investigations, analysis pieces, and quick-turn stories
• Recruit, manage, and assign a rotating bench of freelance reporters and contributors
• Help shape deep-dive investigations into public companies and politicians
• Build recurring newsletter formats and improve subject lines, performance, and social postings
• Maintain standards for clarity, fairness, accuracy, and force
• Work with leadership on launch strategy, premium access, timing, and editorial calendar
• Ensure accuracy and truthfulness of stories

Requirements

• Strong editing experience in journalism, newsletters, business media, or investigations
• Excellent editorial judgment and line-editing skills
• Ability to manage freelance contributors and improve copy
• Familiarity with markets, finance, business news, and political economy
• Comfort building products, not just editing isolated articles
• Strong instincts around what makes readers open, subscribe, and share
• Comfort working in a fast-moving remote environment

Salary range is USD 85,000 to USD 135,000 per year depending on experience.

Exceptional candidates

If you are an exceptional editor with an existing audience, newsletter franchise, or independent journalism business, we're open to creative conversations about structure. For the right person, that could include a more tailored role, editorial partnership, or another arrangement built around what you've already created.

Send a brief intro bio explaining why you'd be right for the role and resume to [click apply].