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Editorial Researcher, YC Media

Y Combinator· Marketing
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)$180k - $200kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Editorial Researcher role on the YC Media team at Y Combinator. The position focuses on researching, writing, and editing YC’s content across videos, podcasts, essays, and original research, while developing ideas, analyzing data, and translating complex topics into clear, engaging content.

Responsibilities

  • Research, write, and edit YC’s written content.
  • Develop ideas and do research for YC videos, podcasts, interviews, and other media.
  • Work directly with YC partners, founders, and the Media team to turn interesting ideas into great content.
  • Dig into data to find surprising trends about startups, technology, founders, and what people are building.
  • Find interesting people, projects, papers, companies, and ideas before everyone else is talking about them.
  • Help us figure out what YC should be covering and why.
  • Take complicated technical subjects and make them clear, accurate, and interesting.
  • Experiment with new editorial formats and ways of telling stories.

Qualifications

  • You're deeply curious about technology and understand the culture around startups, AI, engineering, and the internet.
  • You're an excellent writer and editor. You can make complicated things simple without making them simplistic.
  • You're technical enough to talk to engineers and researchers and understand what they're actually saying.
  • You like going down rabbit holes, reading papers, digging through datasets, talking to experts, and figuring things out for yourself.
  • You have strong editorial judgment. You can recognize when something is genuinely interesting rather than merely popular.
  • You're comfortable working across formats. An idea might become a Substack post, a YouTube video, a podcast conversation, a chart, or something we haven't tried yet.
  • You're opinionated about media and the internet and have good instincts about what smart people actually want to read and watch.
  • You don't need someone to hand you a story. You find them.

Skills

Required:WritingEditingResearchTechnical communication
Nice to have:Data interpretation

Benefits

  • Our full benefits package includes medical, vision, and dental plans, an infertility benefit, STD/LTD, life insurance, commuter benefits, a flexible spending account, a health savings account, a 401(k) with 4% matching, generous parental leave, paid holidays, and a flexible paid time off policy.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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