Associate Editor

San Francisco · USD 80,000-100,000 / year · 1-3 years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 16, 2026

At a glance

Inkittt is seeking an Associate Editor to diagnose narrative issues using manuscripts, reader feedback, and engagement data, and to write clear editorial plans for major rewrites.
The role involves executing rewrites in collaboration with authors and agentic AI tools, testing revisions, and building relationships across teams to improve each book.

Read deeply and diagnose where and why a story loses readers using the manuscript, reader feedback and engagement data.
Write clear, bold editorial plans for major rewrites including new hooks, reworked arcs, sharper character motivation, and payoffs.
Execute rewrites in collaboration with authors and agentic AI tools.
Run reader tests on revisions, interpret the results, and carry learnings into the next book.
Build relationships with authors, freelance editors, marketing, and the wider content team.

Love romance, read widely in it, know the tropes, heat levels, and subgenres, and have strong opinions on why readers keep coming back.
Possess sharp editorial instincts to identify why a story isn’t working and how to fix it.
Be a creative thinker with big story ideas, excited to reinvent a book rather than just repair it.
Be comfortable developing creative theories from quantitative data, forming a hypothesis from reader data, and explaining it clearly.
Be excited to use AI as a creative tool, with the taste to judge what it produces and make it better.
Be smart, curious, and hungry, learning fast, taking ownership, and wanting real responsibility early.
Have 1-3 years in editorial or publishing, an MFA, or similar.
Work on-site in San Francisco 5 days a week.