Top Editor Jobs in Manchester

Create and publish daily local business journalism for Manchester Evening News. Responsibilities include sourcing original stories, producing newsletters, live blogs and roundups, developing business-community networks, representing the brand across events and digital channels, contributing to BusinessLive, and collaborating with commercial teams on revenue opportunities.

Lead strategic development and visibility of one or more education journals: solicit and commission high-quality submissions, manage peer review and editorial decisions, uphold publishing ethics, build global researcher networks, represent the portfolio at conferences and institute visits, and collaborate with internal and external editorial colleagues to drive innovation and high performance.

Designs and integrates machine learning capabilities into game editors, engine tools, and game systems. Owns complex technical features, improves development pipelines and workflows, identifies technical risks, and delivers scalable, reliable solutions. The role also includes reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and collaborating across disciplines to advance AI-enabled game development.

Leads transformation of personalised customer communications and digital content operations. Designs content supply chains, governance frameworks, workflows and operating models; supports content creation, approval and publishing; and drives automation, AI and marketing technology adoption. Provides strategic guidance, training and coaching while partnering with Marketing, Digital, Data, Technology, Risk and Compliance teams to improve scalable, controlled and customer-focused communication delivery.

Lead the launch and daily operation of hyper-local paid newsletters, setting editorial standards, publishing workflows, and community engagement practices. Manage and coach local journalists, develop content and growth strategies, and optimize sign-ups, engagement, and free-to-paid conversion. Collaborate with editorial, commercial, product, technology, legal, marketing, and audience teams while experimenting with platform features such as comments, podcasts, events, and subscription tiers.

Own the overnight and early-morning news agenda for North American audiences, making editorial decisions on story selection, headlines, packaging, placement, and breaking-news coverage. Coordinate handoffs across UK and U.S. desks, video, and product teams; maintain accuracy and quality under pressure; and use audience analytics to optimize engagement. The role requires independent newsroom leadership, strong editorial judgment, familiarity with North American news, and reliable UK-based overnight availability.

Senior Editor for the Journal of Applied Ecology, responsible for assessing manuscripts, selecting editors and reviewers, making publication decisions, recruiting Associate Editors, soliciting submissions, promoting the journal, identifying strategic subject areas, and contributing to editorial development. Requires an active applied ecology research and publication record, reviewing experience, strong communication, strategic judgment, networking ability, and commitment to editorial standards.

Join Last Level Studios as a part-time video podcast editor & producer, responsible for post-production, guest outreach, and content creation for our podcast, Beyond The Blox, focusing on the Roblox platform.

Provides strategic and scholarly leadership for the Advanced Computing journal. Responsibilities include defining scope and special issues, recruiting and managing the editorial board, overseeing peer review and decisions, enforcing research quality and ethics, promoting reproducibility and open science, and engaging global academic, industry, and policy communities.

Freelance remote translator and copy editor translating English content into Hebrew for marketing, UI, product, support, informational, and light legal materials. The role requires native or near-native Hebrew, excellent English, professional translation experience, CAT tool proficiency, strong attention to detail, reliability, responsiveness, and the ability to meet deadlines and incorporate feedback.

Creates, edits, researches, and quality assures UK legal education materials, assessments, and digital learning resources. The role monitors legal and assessment changes, collaborates with internal teams and external experts, supports accreditation and regulatory submissions, manages content systems, analyzes learner feedback, and contributes legal subject-matter expertise, product improvements, and author onboarding.

Create and manage editorial content across Lookfantastic’s Content Hub, YouTube, and social channels. Responsibilities include researching, writing, editing, video scripting and production, content repurposing, SEO/GEO optimization, analytics-driven improvements, and Content Hub maintenance. The role also manages a Social Producer and collaborates with SEO, PR, Creative, CRM, copywriting, and external expert teams to deliver engaging, discoverable beauty content.

Lead motion design projects from briefs through concept, animation, sound pairing, and final export. Create compelling visual narratives for digital products, marketing, social media, and corporate communications. Triage stakeholder requests, explain creative rationale asynchronously, maintain brand alignment, and independently develop motion concepts for complex technical and data-driven topics.

Creates short-form video content and supporting graphic assets for TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Responsibilities include editing raw footage, adding captions, transitions, music, voiceovers, sound effects, motion graphics, thumbnails, and static posts. The role collaborates with social media, marketing, sales, and CRO teams; adapts content for platform requirements; evaluates performance metrics; follows brand guidelines; manages digital assets; and stays current with social media trends and creative formats.

The role involves editing high-quality videos for social media and YouTube, focusing on both polished and raw content, storytelling, and brand consistency.

Edit long- and short-form video content for YouTube and social platforms, adding motion graphics, captions, lower thirds, audio adjustments, color grading, and transitions. Organize assets and versions, collaborate with producers and designers, incorporate feedback, meet platform specifications, and deliver files in required formats and aspect ratios. The role also requires creative storytelling, quality assurance, deadline management, and submission of a video reel and editing sample.

Edit short-form paid social, UGC and creator videos into attention-grabbing assets for TikTok, Reels, Meta and Shorts. Produce multiple testable versions, add captions, sound design and motion, use performance data and AI tools to iterate, and collaborate with strategists, designers and marketers to scale high-performing creative.

The Editor, Subscriber Content creates timely commentary and analysis for subscribers, ensuring high-quality, engaging pieces that interpret major news stories. They work closely with senior editors to deliver content under tight deadlines, manage CMS publishing, and support subscriber engagement through newsletters and other formats.

Contract content editor to copyedit and proofread longform reports, articles, and factsheets for clarity, grammar, consistency, and flow. Provide structural and readability feedback while preserving author voice and aligning content with SikhRI standards and voice. Work is project-based with per-deliverable payments from July–Dec 2026.

The Senior Managing Editor oversees editorial production, ensuring content accuracy and tone across publications while managing project timelines and teams.