About Cantina:
Cantina is a new social platform founded by Sean Parker with the most advanced AI character creator. Our bots are lifelike, social creatures that can interact wherever people are online—across voice, video, and text. Create yourself, imagine someone new, or choose from thousands of characters to share infinitely scalable, personalized content and seamless group chat.
If you’re excited about how AI can shape creativity and social interaction, come help us build what’s next.
About the Role:
Cantina is looking for a Manager Editor to lead our outbound messaging across content, marketing, and thought leadership to drive user growth, creator adoption, partnerships, recruiting, and fundraising. You’ll own the long-term strategy and day-to-day execution of our content marketing machine, working closely with executives, comms leadership, and our community team.
What You’ll Do:
Oversee all outbound copywriting across long-form, social, paid, and executive thought leadership.
Hire, train, and manage Cantina’s editorial team across consumer growth, creator growth, and Labs recruiting.
Collaborate with executives and comms leadership to build and maintain key marketing messaging.
Develop brand voices for Cantina’s core social accounts, Labs account, and executives.
Populate and execute the content calendar across all channels.
Help Cantina develop its own thriving, platform-native new media property.
Learn and apply the latest editorial GTM strategies to beat the algorithms and win attention.
Coordinate content amplification campaigns in collaboration with our community team.
Seize on narrative opportunities that arise out of news, trends, and X debate.
What You’ll Bring:
Experience managing a multi-person creative or content marketing team.
Exceptional persuasive writing skills for capturing attention.
A fast-shipping, non-perfectionist, experimental mindset: you’d rather post five times today and learn what works than spend a week polishing one announcement.
High taste as a curator, with the ability to quickly sort good content from bad and give clear, direct feedback.
A voracious appetite for learning the latest channels, algorithmic hacks, and content strategies.
A data-driven approach, using metrics to iterate on content strategy.
Chronically online instincts for spotting opportunities for rapid messaging.
Bonus Points For:
Hands-on experience running and everinternal amplification communities.
Previously a managing editor of a modern media outlet.
Former mid-to-late stage consumer content marketing team leader.
A track record founding and growing a solo new media property.
Compensation:
The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is between $230,000-$380,000. When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered, including skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.
Benefits:
Competitive salary and generous company equity
Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina
42 days of paid time off, including:
15 PTO days
10 sick days
15 company holidays
2 floating holidays
Generous parental leave & fertility support
401(k) retirement savings plan
Lifestyle spending account – $500/month to use however you’d like
Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees
One Medical membership, and more!
Skills Required
- Experience managing a multi-person creative or content marketing team
- Exceptional persuasive writing skills for capturing attention
- Fast-shipping, experimental, non-perfectionist mindset
- Strong editorial judgment and ability to curate content and provide clear, direct feedback
- Strong interest in learning current channels, algorithmic tactics, and content strategies
- Data-driven approach to iterating on content strategy using metrics
- Ability to identify rapid messaging opportunities from news, trends, and online discussions
- Hands-on experience running and growing internal amplification communities
- Prior experience as managing editor of a modern media outlet
- Experience leading a mid-to-late-stage consumer content marketing team
- Track record of founding and growing a solo new media property
What We Do
Cantina Labs, founded by Sean Parker, is a new social platform with the most advanced AI character creator. Build, share, and interact with AI bots and your friends directly in the Cantina or across the internet. Cantina bots are lifelike, social creatures, capable of interacting wherever humans go on the internet. Recreate yourself using powerful AI, imagine someone new, or choose from thousands of existing characters. Bots are a new media type that offer a way for creators to share infinitely scalable and personalized content experiences combined with seamless group chat across voice, video, and text.
