Editor-in-Chief

Department: Marketing

Location: Home based, UK (with occasional travel to our London office)

Reports to: Marketing Director

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: (Depending on experience)

Role Overview

As the Editor-in-Chief at Cambridge Spark, you will lead our media platform: an editorial operation that establishes Cambridge Spark as the authoritative voice and convenor on AI transformation within organisations. This is an editorial leadership role, you will own the voice, the standards and the publishing calendar across written, audio and video, building an audience that the market trusts and returns to.

Most companies produce content. We are building the place where the most important conversations about AI transformation happen. You will work with our CEO and technical leaders as talent – shaping their thinking into work worth publishing – and you will have the taste and the standing to say “that’s not the angle” as readily as “that’s the story”. If you have been looking for where good editorial work is genuinely happening, this is it.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the editorial vision, voice and standards across all written, audio and video output.
• Set and run the publishing calendar, and make the final call on what is and isn’t worth publishing.
• Work with the CEO and technical / subject-matter leaders as talent – drawing out and shaping their thinking into finished work, and managing that dynamic with editorial authority.
• Lead and develop the editorial team, including producers working to a shared editorial and commercial brief.
• Build the flagship strands (including podcast and executive thought-leadership formats) that define the platform.
• Grow audience, share of voice and engagement as the primary measures of success, while maintaining a clear line of sight to influenced pipeline.
• Uphold quality and editorial independence, so that editorial judgment sits with the editor rather than the subject.

Candidate Specification:

Essential

• A genuine editorial voice and demonstrable taste, with a track record of deciding what is worth an audience’s attention.
• A background spanning journalism or media production alongside B2B content, brand or thought leadership.
• Comfortable managing up – shaping founders’ and senior leaders’ output without losing editorial standards.
• Fluent in modern production, including AI-enabled workflows across formats.
• Audience-first thinking, with a clear understanding of the commercial connection and no preciousness about it.

Desirable

• Experience building or scaling an in-house media, publishing or content platform from an early stage.
• An established network across media, data or the AI / technology community.
• Experience in a fast-growing technology, education or professional-services environment.

Company Benefits:

• Pension with 4% matched contributions, opportunity to opt into salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• Employee Assistance Programme with a dedicated company counsellor

Background to our Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m.

Our Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.  Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.